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New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific ...
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Prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance
Jun 04, 2008 |
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A cryogenic pressure vessel developed and installed in an experimental hybrid vehicle by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory research team can hold liquid hydrogen for six days without venting any of ...
NASA's Aqua satellite catches 2 views of super Typhoon Choi-Wan
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2009 |
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NASA's Aqua satellite again flew over Super Typhoon Choi-Wan late last night and captured visible and infrared imagery of the monster typhoon. Aqua's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument and Moderate ...
Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency?
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Nuclear Engineer Lonnie Johnson, best known for his invention of the super soaker squirt gun, has recently designed a new type of solar energy technology that he says can achieve a conversion efficiency rate ...
Super typhoon Lupit heading west in the Philippine Sea
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Lupit has joined the ranks of super typhoons in the Western Pacific Ocean, and is currently packing maximum sustained winds near 132 mph, down from a previous peak near 149 mph, but still a Category Four strength ...
Scientists design new super-hard material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Ultra-hard materials are used for everything from drills that bore for oil and build new roads to scratch-resistant coatings for precision instruments and the face of your watch.
New material could help cut future energy losses
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Durham University have developed a new material to further understanding of how superconductors could be used to transmit electricity to built-up areas and reduce global energy ...
Melting ice under pressure
Sep 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The deep interior of Neptune, Uranus and Earth may contain some solid ice.
Carbon dioxide forms polymeric materials under high pressure
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Carbon dioxide is a molecular gas at ambient conditions and an important consitituent of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is also a likely component in the Earth’s mantle, and it plays an important role in the life ...
Flying by the skin of our teeth
Aug 19, 2009 |
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It's been a mystery: how can our teeth withstand such an enormous amount of pressure, over many years, when tooth enamel is only about as strong as glass? A new study by Prof. Herzl Chai of Tel Aviv University's School of ...
What happens when a stone impacts on water
Jan 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the University of Twente in the Netherlands and the University of Seville in Spain have explained the formation and behaviour of the ...
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