News articles tagged with 'acceleration'
Report on US-China collaboration on carbon capture and sequestration
— 5 Nov 2009 12:35 | EnvironmentLawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Julio Friedmann, in collaboration with the Centre for American Progress, the Asia Society Centre and with partner Monitor Group, today released... — full story
Laser accelerated protons to the highest energies so far
— 2 Nov 2009 16:50 | TechnologyLaser-particle acceleration is an emerging area of physics that is expected to further significant future advances in modern cancer radiotherapy. An international team of physicists,... — full story
North Carolina sea levels rising 3 times faster than in previous 500 years
— 29 Oct 2009 11:18 | EnvironmentAn international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found... — full story
'Smart turbine blades' to improve wind power
— 2 May 2009 18:39 | TechnologyResearchers have developed a technique that uses sensors and computational software to constantly monitor forces exerted on wind turbine blades, a step toward improving efficiency by... — full story
New open-source software permits faster desktop computer simulations of molecular motion
— 6 Feb 2009 11:10 | TechnologyWhether vibrating in place or taking part in protein folding to ensure cells function properly, molecules are never still. Simulating molecular motions provides researchers with information... — full story
Ghostly glow reveals galaxy clusters in collision
— 16 Oct 2008 10:20 | AstronomyA team of scientists, including astronomers from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have detected long wavelength radio emission from a colliding, massive galaxy cluster which, surprisingly,... — full story
Warm coronal loops offer clue to mysteriously hot solar atmosphere
— 29 May 2008 22:32 | AstronomyUnlocking the mystery of the processes responsible for heating the sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona, to million degree temperatures is no easy task. Scientists at NASA reveal... — full story
Satellite communications by laser
— 13 May 2008 14:39 | TechnologySatellites currently use radio waves to exchange data. Now the data rate has been increased a hundred-fold by using lasers instead of radio signals. Two test satellites each carried... — full story
Researchers discover unexpected properties of laser-induced plasmas
— 21 Apr 2008 13:24 | PhysicsLaser-induced plasmas are of great interest because they are suitable for a variety of applications such as nuclear fusion, acceleration of electrons and ions, and the generation of... — full story
Do dwarf galaxies favour MOND over dark matter?
— 3 Apr 2008 12:18 | AstronomyA detailed analysis of eight dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way indicates that their orbital behaviour can be explained more accurately with Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)... — full story