News tagged with water surface

Fool's gold may prove an unlikely alternative to overexploited catalytic materials

Catalytic materials, which lower the energy barriers for chemical reactions, are used in everything from the commercial production of chemicals to catalytic converters in car engines. However, with current catalytic materials ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

A new tool for mapping water use and drought

Farmers and water managers may soon have an online tool to help them assess drought and irrigation impacts on water use and crop development, thanks to the work of two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellite sees tropical storm Cyril a strong, compact storm

Tropical Storm Cyril was known as "11P" has been strengthening since February 6, and still appears very compact on infrared NASA satellite data.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Russia 'drills into' Antarctic subglacial lake

A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 13

Graphene enhances many materials, but leaves them wettable

Graphene is the thinnest material known to science. The nanomaterial is so thin, in fact, water often doesn't even know it's there.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Huge pool of Arctic fresh water could cool Europe

British scientists have discovered an enormous dome of fresh water in the western Arctic Ocean. They think it may result from strong Arctic winds accelerating a great clockwise ocean circulation called the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Unexpected ice-formation mechanism

(PhysOrg.com) -- Extremely hydrophobic materials cause water to roll right off objects that have been coated with them. Up to now, it was assumed that aircraft or wind turbines coated in such a way did not ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | 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

Lake Erie algae, ice, make a nice mix in winter

Clarkson University Biology Professor Michael R. Twiss has been working with colleagues and students from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Ontario, to study Lake Erie over the past five winters during mid-winter, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new twist on surface tension

(PhysOrg.com) -- On a mission to manipulate microscale structures of materials, researchers engineer new methods of controlling surface tension.

Physics / Soft Matter

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Trapping butterfly wings' qualities

Butterflies have inspired humans since the time of ancient Egypt, but now they're also inspiring researchers to look toward nature to help create the next generation of waterproof materials for electronics ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Kepler finds first earth-size planets beyond our solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 61 | with audio podcast

NASA Planning for Possible Landings on Europa

All these worlds are yours except Europa, Attempt no landing there, Use them together use them in peace

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 25

Jumping droplets take a lot of heat

Microscopic water droplets jumping from one surface to another may hold the key to a wide array of more energy efficient products, ranging from large solar panels to compact laptop computers.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

CNST collaboration tunes viscous drag on superhydrophobic surfaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- By measuring the motion of a vibrating, porous membrane separating water and air, researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory, the University ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0