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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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System developed to detect plastic anti-personnel mines

System developed to detect plastic anti-personnel mines

Technology / Engineering

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of European researchers has devised a method for locating plastic anti-personnel mines, which are manufactured to avoid detection by metal detectors. The technique involves analysing the temperature ...


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 (40) | 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 Nov 11, 2009 | 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 ...


Research puts police gun detectors a step closer

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The new technology - being designed by Newcastle, Manchester Metropolitan and Queen Mary universities - uses electro magnetic waves in order to pick up 'reflections' from concealed guns, gun barrels or knives without the ...



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