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Spinning Water Droplets Could Provide Insights into Black Holes, Atomic Nuclei
Dec 15, 2008 |
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By magnetically levitating water droplets, and using a “liquid electric motor” technique to spin them, researchers can investigate how the droplets change shape. Rather than being just a curious experiment, ...
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Bioactive glass nanofibers produced
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 18, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Vigo, Rutgers University in the United States and Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, has developed "laser spinning", a novel method of producing glass ...
Water Vapor Detected in Protoplanetary Disks
Mar 19, 2008 |
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Water is an essential ingredient for forming planets, yet has remained hidden from scientists searching for it in protoplanetary systems, the spinning disks of particles surrounding newly formed stars where planets are born. ...
Water Hit With Young Star's Best Shot
Sep 18, 2008 |
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Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The discovery provides a better understanding of how water -- an essential ...
Spiders’ unspun silk flows easier the faster it is sheared
Nov 01, 2006 |
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Oxford researchers have discovered that spiders and silkworms spin their fibres using methods that are not all that different from commercial spinning.
Gravity Waves Make Tornados
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2008 |
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Did you know that there's a new breakfast food that helps meteorologists predict severe storms? Down South they call it "GrITs."
Fascinating Spider Silk
Apr 04, 2007 |
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Stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber: spider silk is unsurpassed in its expandability, resistance to tearing, and toughness. Spider silk would be an ideal material for a large variety of medical and technical ...
Mice Levitated for Space Research
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have managed to levitate young mice in research carried out for NASA. Levitated mice may help research on bone density loss during long exposures to low gravity, such as in space ...
'Vortex lattices' may help explain material defects
Dec 22, 2006 |
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What do you get when you superimpose a rotating pattern of intersecting laser beams on a spinning cloud of ultracold atoms in a thin gas? Pretty pictures, for one thing--but also a new method that could be ...
Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir (w/ Video)
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.
Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Homer's Iliad tells the story of Troy, a city besieged by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Today, a lone robot sits besieged in the sands of Troy while engineers and scientists plot its escape.
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