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Observing the Quantum Hall Effect in 'Real' Space

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- When water transforms into steam, or magnetized iron changes to demagnetized iron, Katsushi Hashimoto explains to PhysOrg.com, a phase transition is taking place: “Classical phase transitions…often share ...





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Electronic Nose to Return from Space Station

Electronic Nose to Return from Space Station (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sniffing out any potential contaminants on the International Space Station where it was stationed for the last six months, the JPL-built electronic nose, or ENose, is homeward bound.


Astronauts board space shuttle for evening launch (AP)

Astronauts board space shuttle for evening launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- After enduring a month's delay, seven astronauts boarded space shuttle Endeavour on Sunday for an early evening flight to the international space station.


Imagine Peace Tower lights in Second Life

Technology / Internet

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Just hours after Friday's annual lighting of the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, a virtual version of the tribute to late Beatle John Lennon opened in online world Second Life.


Putting Plankton in Perspective, from Sea to Sky

Putting Plankton in Perspective, from Sea to Sky (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- From the time he was 21 and working toward his Ph.D., Mike Behrenfeld has been observing phytoplankton -- floating ocean plants that have a global impact. Observing these tiny plants under ...


Web site recreates Apollo 11 mission in real time

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon.


The unicycling clown phenomenon: Talking, walking and driving with cell phone users

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Everyone tends to float off into space once in a while and fail to see what is sitting there right in front of them. Recently researchers decided to put the theory of "inattentional blindness" to the test: the unicycling ...


Astronauts pack Buzz Lightyear for ride home (AP)

Astronauts pack Buzz Lightyear for ride home

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle and station packed up Buzz Lightyear on Monday for the ride home from "infinity and beyond."


NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations

NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science ...


This handout picture shows a 41-year-old paralysed man enjoying a virtual walk in the online world of 'Second Life'

Virtual mobility for disabled wins Second Life prize

Technology / Internet

created May 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

An organization that lets people with disabilities virtually climb mountains and hike trails shared top honors in a first-ever Second Life prize for in-world projects improving real-world lives.


MESSENGER at Mercury

MESSENGER Spacecraft Flies by Mercury

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Shortly before 5:55 p.m. EDT, MESSENGER skimmed 228 kilometers (141 miles) above the surface of Mercury in its third and final flyby of the planet.



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