NASA’s Magnetospheric Mission Passes Major Milestone
Sep 6, 2010 Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- The universe is still an arcane place that scientists know very little about, but a new NASA Solar Terrestrial Probe mission is going to shed light on one especially mysterious event called magnetic reconnection. It occurs when magnetic lines of force cross, cancel, and reconnect...Tags: Kinetic Energy, Magnetic Energy, Magnetic Lines, Magnetospheric Mission, Milestone, Mysterious Event, Nasa, Particle, Probe Mission, Scientists, Universe
ATHLETE rover steps up to long desert trek
Sep 6, 2010 Science
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ATHLETE rover, currently under development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is in the Arizona desert this month to participate in NASA's Research and Technology Studies, also known as Desert RATS. The desert tests offer a chance for a NASA-led team of en...Tags: Arizona Desert, Astronauts, Athlete, Desert Rats, Desert Tests, Desert Trek, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, Missions, Nasa, Physorg, Scientists, Technology Studies
New self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself
Sep 5, 2010 Science
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process.Tags: Decades, New Technology, Plants, Scientists, Sunlight
Glasperlenspiel: Scientists propose new test for gravity
Sep 1, 2010 Science
A new experiment proposed* by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may allow researchers to test the effects of gravity with unprecedented precision at very short distances -- a scale at which exotic new details of gravity's behavior may be detectable.Tags: Distances, Gravity, National Institute Of Standards, National Institute Of Standards And Technology, New Details, New Experiment, New Test, Physicists, Scientists, Unprecedented Precision
Probing spin liquids with a new pulsed-magnet system
Aug 30, 2010 Science
Entirely new experimental vistas could be opened by a device called a precursor pulsed-magnet system developed by an international team of scientists. This system can generate magnetic fields as high as 30 Tesla for synchrotron x-ray scattering experiments. The researchers recently completed the ...Tags: Aps, Argonne National Laboratory, Department Of Energy, Liquids, Magnet System, Magnetic Fields, Photon Source, Physical Review Letters, Precursor, Rare Earth, Scientists, Spin, Tesla, Titanate, U S Department, X Ray
Dark Matter Detector Poised for Magical Mystery Tour
Aug 27, 2010 General IT
A cosmic ray detector designed to search for antimatter made its way to the Kennedy Space Center Friday in preparation for a February launch that will take it to the International Space Station on the final space shuttle fl...Tags: Cern, Cosmic Ray Detector, Dark Matter, European Organization, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, Launch, Magical Mystery Tour, Magnetic Spectrometer, Nasa, Nasa Project Manager, Nuclear Research, Scientists, Space Shuttle Flight, Switzerland
Space crystals ‘to grow on ISS’
Aug 27, 2010 General
Scientists are planning to use the International Space Station to grow a new kind of crystal for use in solar cells by 2013.Tags: Crystals, International Space Station, Iss, Scientists, Solar Cells
Electricity ‘pulled from the air’
Aug 27, 2010 General
A scheme to generate renewable energy by simply pulling electric charge out of humid air sparks debate amongst scientists.Tags: Debate, Electricity, Humid Air, Renewable Energy, Scientists, Sparks
Scientists can build liver from skin cells
Aug 26, 2010 General
SCIENTISTS have made liver cells in a lab using skin cells, creating the hope of developing new treatments for liver disease.Tags: Liver Cells, Liver Disease, Scientists, Skin Cells
Powdered water no joke, say scientists
Aug 26, 2010 General
TIME-HONOURED favourite for comedically challenged dads now a reality that could save the world.Tags: Joke, Powdered Water, Scientists
