Items tagged with gas

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Monitoring Pollution and Detecting Disease Monday, September 21st, 2009 - 17:46:22 - Ehud Rattner Nitric oxide, a gas well known to scientists for its myriad functions, has proven challenging to measure accurately outside the laboratory. A team of... read more

Magnetized Gas Points to New Physics Sunday, September 20th, 2009 - 16:03:10 - Ehud Rattner It would be tough to stick it to your refrigerator, but an ultra-cold gas magnetizes itself just as do metals such as iron or nickel, a team of... read more

Opto-Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Toxic Gases Monday, September 14th, 2009 - 15:44:20 - Ehud Rattner Imagine a polka-dotted postage stamp that can sniff out poisonous gases or deadly toxins simply by changing colors. As reported in the Sept. 13 issue... read more

Laser Cooling May Create 'Exotic' States Thursday, September 10th, 2009 - 10:17:54 - Anuradha Menon Laser beams are best known as weapons in science fiction and as heating and cutting tools in science fact. But a new study has flip-flopped... read more

Changing Phases on a Distant World Saturday, August 8th, 2009 - 09:07:21 - Anuradha Menon NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's... read more

Endeavour Launch Scrubbed Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 - 10:19:15 - Anuradha Menon Space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 launch today was officially scrubbed at 1:55 a.m. EDT when the same type of gaseous hydrogen leak was detected at... read more

Significant Gas Resource Discovered Monday, June 1st, 2009 - 16:53:26 - Ehud Rattner The Gulf of Mexico contains very thick and concentrated gas-hydrate-bearing reservoir rocks which have the potential to produce gas using current... read more

UK Unveils New Smart Meter Plan Monday, May 11th, 2009 - 14:04:17 - Ehud Rattner The government has unveiled plans for every home in Britain to be equipped with smart meters by the end of 2020. Smart meters allow suppliers to... read more

Gas Becomes Solid at Volcano Surface Thursday, May 7th, 2009 - 14:30:16 - Anuradha Menon Science has unearthed the secret to what might have been alchemy at Oldoinyo Lengai volcano in Tanzania. There, in the ancient East African Rift at a... read more

Spintronics by Controlling Spin State Friday, April 3rd, 2009 - 12:03:37 - Anuradha Menon By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the... read more

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