News tagged with radioactive materials
Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction
Nov 03, 2009 |
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The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre ...
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Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
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You can think of it as origami - very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling ...
Peptides control crystal growth with 'switches, throttles and brakes'
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By producing some of the highest resolution images of peptides attaching to mineral surfaces, scientists have a deeper understanding how biomolecules manipulate the growth crystals. This research ...
Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots
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A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In ...
Machine Converts CO2 into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, ...
New hydrogen-storage method discovered
Nov 22, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach ...
Generating electricity from air flow
Nov 22, 2009 |
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A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity. ...
Nuclear weapons: Predicting the unthinkable
Nov 22, 2009 |
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If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first go? According to physicist Fernando Grinstein, we have some initial understanding to address ...
Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
Nov 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...
NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy
Nov 20, 2009 |
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NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following ...
Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (Update)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...
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