News articles tagged with 'deuterium'
New NASA missions to investigate how Mars turned hostile
— 19 Nov 2011 15:46 | AstronomyMaybe because it appears as a speck of blood in the sky, the planet Mars was named after the Roman god of war. From the point of view of life as we know it, that's appropriate. The…
UCLA biochemists develop new method for preventing oxidative damage to cells
— 2 Dec 2010 18:28 | HealthThe discovery by UCLA biochemists of a new method for preventing oxidation in the essential fatty acids of cell membranes could lead to a new class of more effective nutritional supplements…
Juelich researchers take a look inside molecules
— 22 Oct 2010 19:13 | TechnologyFor their look into the nanoworld, the Juelich researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope. Its thin metal tip scans the specimen surface like the needle of a record player and…
Replacing hydrogen in fluorescent dyes improves detection ability, stability and shelf life
— 21 Jul 2010 09:36 | HealthBy swapping out one specific hydrogen atom for an isotope twice as heavy, researchers have increased the shelf life and detection ability of fluorescent probes that are essential to…
Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought: Stanford study
— 12 Nov 2009 08:37 | EnvironmentThe scalding-hot sea that supposedly covered the early Earth may in fact never have existed, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers who analysed isotope ratios…
Ultra-dense deuterium may be the nuclear fuel of the future
— 11 May 2009 18:39 | ChemistryA material that is a hundred thousand times heavier than water and more dense than the core of the Sun is being produced at the University of Gothenburg. The scientists working with…
'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source
— 24 Mar 2009 17:30 | PhysicsResearchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called 'cold fusion' that may promise a new source…
Heavy pyridine crystallises differently
— 9 Jan 2009 15:12 | ChemistryThe nuclei of ordinary hydrogen atoms contain only a single proton. If a neutron is added, the hydrogen becomes deuterium. In principle, molecules that contain deuterium in place of…
Physicists at Mainz University generate ultracold neutrons at the TRIGA Reactor
— 29 Dec 2008 13:54 | PhysicsFor the first time ever, scientists at the TRIGA research reactor of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have determined the velocity distribution of ultracold neutrons (UCN) emitted…
Boston University scientists en route to Mars
— 19 Sep 2008 17:40 | AstronomyBoston University's Centre for Space Physics (CSP) announced today that it will participate in NASA's next mission to Mars to study the planets atmosphere and climate history - particularly…