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Study finds 'cool' gas may form and strengthen sunspots

Hydrogen molecules may act as a kind of energy sink that strengthens the magnetic grip that causes sunspots, according to scientists from Hawaii and New Mexico using a new infrared instrument on an old telescope.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Many bodies make one coherent burst of light: Researchers see superfluorescence from solid-state material

In a flash, the world changed for Tim Noe – and for physicists who study what they call many-body problems. The Rice University graduate student was the first to see, in the summer of 2010, proof of a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Compact, low-cost and fast hyperspectral imaging solution

At SPIE Photonics West 2012, imec demonstrates a hyperspectral camera solution based on a system-on-chip image sensor with an integrated hyperspectral sensor. Imec’s solution is fast and enables small ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New instrument peers through the heart of the Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomy has a powerful new tool to probe the structure of our galaxy. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) spectrograph is the newest instrument deployed by ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Infrared technology for measuring the effect of fire on materials

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are developing an infrared measuring method to analyze the thermal properties and resistance to fire of composite materials. This advance would have applications ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Massive stars are born as giants

Astronomers from the University of Amsterdam have shown that forming massive stars are much bigger than grown-up massive stars. Their observations confirm the theory that, at the conclusion of the formation ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The road to ultrahigh-resolution X-ray spectrometers

Two recent developments at the Advanced Photon Source explore paths to routine use of sub-meV x-rays to probe low-energy excitations in matter. The first is a remarkable experimental demonstration of an x-ray ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Image: Saturn's Northern storm

(PhysOrg.com) -- This false-color mosaic from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the tail of Saturn's huge northern storm. In mid-September 2004, the Cassini spacecraft chronicled a similar, but smaller, storm ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Water and ammonia factories

(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex molecules, including many organic species, exist in a wide range of environments in the cosmos, and are especially abundant in giant molecular clouds of gas and dust where new stars ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Newly deciphered diary muddles Livingstone legend

He is one of history's most famous explorers, and his first-person account of a 19th-century massacre in Africa helped lead to the closure of one of the continent's most notorious slave markets.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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