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Electromagnetic Phantom Exorcises Specters of Metal Detector Tests

Electromagnetic Phantom Exorcises Specters of Metal Detector Tests

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

In the comics, the Phantom is a masked crimefighter who protected the innocent from pirates, hijackers and other evildoers. While not as dashing or exciting as its costumed namesake, this electromagnetic phantom ...





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Tropical soils impede landmine detection

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Use of a metal detector is the most common technique when searching for landmines, which litter the soil in approximately 90 countries around the world. Many of these countries are located in the tropics where intensively ...


Airports may start using T-ray detectors

Technology / Other

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Security posts at U.S. airports could one day use T-ray detectors instead of X-ray machines to reduce inspection delays, a report said.


Stealthy, Versatile, and Jam Resistant Antennas made of Gas

Stealthy, Versatile, and Jam Resistant Antennas made of Gas

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (39) | comments 4

A new antenna made of plasma (a gas heated to the point that the electrons are ripped free of atoms and molecules) works just like conventional metal antennas, except that it vanishes when you turn it off.


Kilo of metal found in Peruvian's stomach: surgeon

Medicine & Health / Other

created 5 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogram of nails, coins and scrap metal from a man's stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said Wednesday.


Ultra-intense laser blast creates true 'black metal'

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 21, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (101) | comments 0

"Black gold" is not just an expression anymore. Scientists at the University of Rochester have created a way to change the properties of almost any metal to render it, literally, black. The process, using an incredibly intense ...


Super Sensitive Gas Detector Goes Down the Nanotubes

Super Sensitive Gas Detector Goes Down the Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When cells are under stress, they blow off steam by releasing minute amounts of nitrogen oxides and other toxic gases. In a recent paper,* researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...


Chemist Travels World to Study Mysterious Properties of Neutrinos

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 14

In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles — the neutrino — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their expertise from ...


Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have ...


Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points

Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When used at high temperatures (above 1100 °C) thermocouples are prone to substantial calibration drift. To gauge the extent of the drift, for example, in an industrial setting, it is highly desirable for ...


New molecules have wide applications

Carbenes: New molecules have wide applications

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a class of carbenes, highly reactive molecules, used to make catalysts - substances that facilitate chemical reactions. ...



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