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California hits wind energy milestone: About 5 percent of power from wind

California now gets about 5 percent of its electricity from wind power, according to data released Tuesday by the California Wind Energy Association.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 42

Emerging new properties at oxide interfaces

In many ionic materials, including the oxides, surfaces created along specific directions can become electrically charged. By the same token, such electronic charging, or 'polarisation', can also occur at the interface of ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Redefining the SI base units

(PhysOrg.com) -- Metrology is poised to undergo a profound change that will benefit scientists, engineers, industry and commerce – but which almost no one will notice in daily life.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Boom in fracking for oil and gas recovery sparks new technology

With a technology called "fracking" sparking energy booms — and controversy — worldwide, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) describes advances in the workhorse materials used to produce oil and gas from previously inacce ...

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Getting positive results with negative ions

Yes! That's the answer scientists from OI Analytical and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory got from their experiments to see if the new IonCCDTM can detect negative ions and large ions. Furthermore, employing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New ways to measure magnetism around the sun

Those who study the sun face an unavoidable hurdle in their research – their observations must be done from afar. Relying on images and data collected from 90 million miles away, however, makes it tough ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Voyager 1 measures magnetic mayhem

When Voyager 1 passed into the heliosheath in 2004, it became the first man-made object to explore the remote edge of the Sun’s magnetic influence. Launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, the probe was ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Building blocks of life created in 'Impossible' place

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (24) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

No more solar wind for Voyager 1 spacecraft

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (48) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Solar observation mission celebrates 15 years

On December 2, 1995, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or SOHO was launched into space from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas IIAS rocket. The joint ESA/NASA project began its work observing the sun at a ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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