News articles tagged with 'liquid' (Page 17)
A new scenario for first life on Earth
— 22 Nov 2007 20:17 | BiologyA team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Milan has discovered some unexpected forms of liquid crystals of ultra-short DNA molecules immersed in water,…
Similarities found between granular jets, exotic plasma
— 7 Nov 2007 08:55 | PhysicsStreams of granular particles bouncing off a target in a simple tabletop experiment produce liquid-like behaviour also witnessed in a massive research apparatus that simulates the birth…
Drizzly mornings on Xanadu
— 11 Oct 2007 20:56 | AstronomyNoted for its bizarre hydrocarbon lakes and frozen methane clouds, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, also appears to have widespread drizzles of methane, according to a team of astronomers…
A liquid metal that loses its lustre...
— 27 Sep 2007 08:35 | PhysicsUsually, when a solid melts its volume increases. Similarly, when pressure is increased, it becomes increasingly difficult to melt a material. Notable exceptions to this rule exist,…
NASA orbiter provides insights about Mars water and climate
— 21 Sep 2007 00:01 | AstronomyNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history. Features examined with the orbiter's advanced…
Ice volcanoes on Charon?
— 19 Jul 2007 09:29 | AstronomyFrigid geysers spewing material up through cracks in the crust of Pluto's companion Charon and re-coating parts of its surface in ice crystals could be making this distant world into…
Life elsewhere in Solar System could be different from life as we know it
— 6 Jul 2007 19:18 | AstronomyThe search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as 'weird' life - that is, life with an alternative…
Building a liquid telescope on the moon
— 20 Jun 2007 18:22 | AstronomyAn international team including researcher Ermanno Borra, from Universite Laval's Centre for Optics, Photonics, and Laser, has taken another step toward building a liquid telescope…