News tagged with microwave sensors


CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder will use high-tech ...





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Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae

Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microwave satellite imagery has revealed that Tropical Storm Mirinae is strengthening enough to develop an eye, and that's what it's doing. Mirinae was formerly Tropical Depression 23W, but became a tropical ...


Microwave Meter Measures Moisture and Density of In-Shell Peanuts

Microwave Meter Measures Moisture and Density of In-Shell Peanuts

Biology / Other

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A microwave meter that instantaneously measures both moisture and density of in-shell peanuts has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, making it easier and faster ...


Broadband invisibility in the microwave range

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the series Star Trek, Klingons and Romulans have spaceships outfitted with cloaking devices that hide their presence from sight, as well as from the sensors of their rivals' spaceships. Unlike current invisi ...


Microwaves offer fat chance to probe supermarket food

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 20, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Microwaves used for zapping instant meals can also be used to determine the fat and salt content of supermarket food, according to research carried out at two Manchester universities.


First Tunable, ‘Noiseless’ Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications

First Tunable, ‘Noiseless’ Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the first tunable “noiseless” ...


Modern ceramics help advance technology

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Many important electronic devices used by people today would be impossible without the use of ceramics. A new study published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society illustrates the use of ceramic materials in the ...


Warnings up for Philippines as Parma powers up to a super typhoon

Warnings up for Philippines as Parma powers up to a super typhoon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Warnings have been posted in the extreme northeastern Philippines as Parma has powered up into a Super Typhoon, and its new forecast track takes it over the northeastern tip of the Philippines, and three NASA ...


Swedish researchers first with integrated receiver for high frequency applications

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 28, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

As the first research group in the world, researchers at Chalmers have succeeded in combining a receiver for high frequencies with an antenna on a small chip.


COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary

COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. Developed and built at Goddard ...


NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation ...



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