News tagged with wave heights

Testing Orion space capsule

(PhysOrg.com) -- Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,165 kg) Orion test article took its eight and final splash of the year into the Hydro Impact Basin on Dec. 13. Orion, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Maximum height of extreme waves up dramatically in Pacific Northwest

A major increase in maximum ocean wave heights off the Pacific Northwest in recent decades has forced scientists to re-evaluate how high a "100-year event" might be, and the new findings raise special concerns ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (19) | comments 24 | with audio podcast




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Quantum microphone captures extremely weak sound

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Chalmers have demonstrated a new kind of detector for sound at the level of quietness of quantum mechanics. The result offers prospects of a new class of quantum hybrid circuits ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Speed limit on the quantum highway

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have measured the propagation velocity of quantum signals in a many-body system.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

CryoSat ice satellite rides new waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s CryoSat mission has been gathering detailed information on the thickness of Earth’s ice since its launch in 2010. Through international collaboration, this state-of-the-art ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cellphone towers fade into landscape

Faced with providing service for ever more data-hungry cellphones, telecommunications carriers are in a nonstop race costing billions of dollars to boost the capacities of their networks.

Technology / Telecom

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

Stanford scientists' computer models help predict tsunami risk

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford scientists are using complex computational models to solve the puzzle of the devastating tsunami that struck Japan earlier this year and predict where future tsunamis might occur.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Landsat satellites track Yellowstone's underground heat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a vast, ancient, and still active volcano. Heat pours off its underground magma chamber, and is the fuel for Yellowstone's famous features -- more ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

GLORIA: Unique climate research experiment worldwide

Precise measurements of the atmosphere are indispensable for predictions of climate change and its impacts, as is currently being discussed at the climate change conference in Durban. A group of researchers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Double tsunami' doubled Japan destruction

Researchers have discovered that the destructive tsunami generated by the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was a long-hypothesized "merging tsunami" that doubled in intensity over rugged ocean ridges, amplifying ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The swirling of wine helps bioreactors to run better (w/ video)

Every wine aficionado knows that wine has to be swirled in a glass in order for it to release its aroma. Applied to biotechnologies over some fifteen years, this ordinary gesture has made it possible to develop more efficient ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan collab transmits record data speeds on terahertz waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Japan-based semiconductor manufacturer Rohm, together with a team from Osaka University, have come up with a chip that, in experiments, has achieved a wireless data transmission ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 20 | with audio podcast weblog


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