News tagged with metal detectors
Electromagnetic Phantom Exorcises Specters of Metal Detector Tests
Dec 23, 2008 |
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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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New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
21 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and that's what the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors ...
Scientists Show How Bacteria Move Electrons Across a Membrane
Dec 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of East Anglia, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which some bacteria ...
After foiled US plane attack, scanners revisited
Dec 29, 2009 |
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As US lawmakers demand to know how a would-be attacker smuggled explosives aboard a plane on Christmas Day, the use of body scanners at airport security points is likely to be revisited.
Better airport scanners delayed by privacy fears
Dec 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- High-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner have been installed in only a small number of airports around the world, in large part because ...
Research gives new perspective on periodic table
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Transforming lead into gold is an impossible feat, but a similar type of "alchemy" is not only possible, but cost-effective too. Three Penn State researchers have shown that certain combinations of elemental ...
First case of highly drug-resistant TB found in US
Dec 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.
Tiny nano-electromagnets turn a cloak of invisibility into a possibility
Dec 22, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light.
Feds mull regulating drugs in water
Dec 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some ...
System developed to detect plastic anti-personnel mines
Dec 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Digital Quantum Battery Could Boost Energy Density Tenfold
Dec 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to ...
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