News tagged with organic liquid

Chemist Travels World to Study Mysterious Properties of Neutrinos

Aug 19, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (23) | 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 ...

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Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display

Technology / Hi Tech

Nov 26, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.

Fast, easy, and highly sensitive arsenic detection with gold nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention of arsenic poisoning usually brings to mind underhanded murder. However, the danger of arsenic poisoning from contaminated drinking water is far greater. Low concentrations of arsenic are found in ...

Successful Flight Through Enceladus Plume (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 04, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cassini has started sending data back from its Nov. 2 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Fantastic Voyage

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 02, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (19) | 3

By travelling to the outer solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft allowed us to see amazing details of far-distant planets and moons.

A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 30, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (18) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic, would you read it? Of course you would. Granny was a pistol! Brush off the dust, open up the little book, ...

New look for antiques: Paintings and gilt surfaces can be effectively and gently restored with water-based microemulsion

Chemistry / Polymers

Oct 26, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past, restoration of paintings and other old artwork often involved application of acrylic resins to consolidate and protect them. One of the most important tasks for modern restorers ...

Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 16, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (94) | 42

New research suggests that there is plenty of oxygen available in the subsurface ocean of Europa to support oxygen-based metabolic processes for life similar to that on Earth. In fact, there may be enough ...

Nanoscale structures revealed on Diamond's latest beamline

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Oct 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

On Monday 12th October, a team of scientists from the University of Bath became the first researchers to use the UK’s national synchrotron facility’s latest experimental station (I07). Designed for investigating ...

Open Lid Reveals Mercury

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Oct 15, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mercury, the silvery liquid formerly used in thermometers, is now known to be highly toxic. The worst of the toxins are organic mercury compounds, such as methylmercury. Most previous analytical procedures ...