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Electrons in concert: A simple probe for collective motion in ultracold plasmas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Collective, or coordinated behavior is routine in liquids, where waves can occur as atoms act together. In a milliliter (mL) of liquid water, 1022 molecules bob around, colliding. When a bre ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The great gas hydrate escape

For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists predict an out-of-this-world kind of ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists are boldly going where no water molecule has gone before -- that is, when it comes to pressures found nowhere on Earth.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Nanotube 'glow sticks' transform surface science tool kit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many physical and chemical processes necessary for biology and chemistry occur at the interface of water and solid surfaces. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory publishing in Nature ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making molecular hydrogen more efficiently

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the industrial production of chemicals, often the most indispensable element is one that you can't see, smell, or even taste. It's hydrogen, the lightest element of all.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Supercomputer reveals new details behind drug-processing protein model

Supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are giving scientists unprecedented access to a key class of proteins involved in drug detoxification.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Supercooled: Water doesn't have to freeze until -55 F

(PhysOrg.com) -- We drink water, bathe in it and we are made mostly of water, yet the common substance poses major mysteries. Now, University of Utah chemists may have solved one enigma by showing how cold ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 53 | with audio podcast

Iodate refuses to intimidate

Like a bull in a china shop, a massive, iodine-based ion called iodate should disrupt the surrounding water molecules until it is forcibly expelled. However, it doesn't. This disconnect between the molecule's ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | 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

Highly efficient oxygen catalyst found

A team of researchers at MIT has found one of the most effective catalysts ever discovered for splitting oxygen atoms from water molecules — a key reaction for advanced energy-storage systems, including ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New instrument helps researchers see how diseases start and develop in minute detail

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an established technique which over the years has made it possible for researchers and healthcare professionals to study biological phenomena in the body without using ionising radiation, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study sheds light on the mysterious structure of water-air interface

Findings by Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and their colleagues at Tohoku University and in the Netherlands have resolved a long-standing debate over the structure of water molecules ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Saturn's moon Enceladus spreads its influence

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chalk up one more feat for Saturn's intriguing moon Enceladus. The small, dynamic moon spews out dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice -- first seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Novel alloy could produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight

Scientists from the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville have determined that an inexpensive semiconductor material can be "tweaked" to generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Seeing the world of nanotechnology from a single-molecule perspective

Observing the structure of collapsing unstable atomic nuclei using electrons is an experimental goal that has not been achieved anywhere in the world. Masanori Wakasugi, director of the Instrumentation Development ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0