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The inventor of small wind turbines managed to take home the 2011 ConocoPhillips Energy Prize. Ben Glass and Adam Rein from Altaeros Energies are excited to showcase their new invention. The award went to Altaeros Airborne Wind Turbines, quite impressive tiny gadgets which are able to provide up to 100 kilowatts ... |
26 October 2011
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Last year, astronomers investigating the regular variable star V445 Puppis, in the constellation Puppis, proposed that the celestial body was well on its way towards becoming a fully-fledged type 1a supernova. Now, a new paper challenges that claim and says that transformation is impossible.
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4 December 2010
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For chemists, helium is one of the most reliable and interesting chemicals. The gas has the lowest boiling point of all elements, and is also widely considered to be the most stable. For most people, it's a party accessory, used to inflate balloons and make people's voices sound funny. For scientists, it re... |
18 May 2010
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Over the past 15 years, astronomers have been puzzled at a seemingly-inexplicable mystery. When the Galileo space probe first arrived at the gas giant Jupiter, back in 1995, it revealed the fact that the upper atmosphere of the planet was poorer in the noble gases helium and neon than anyone anticipated. These are th... |
22 March 2010
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Supernovae are the huge explosions that accompany the end of a massive star's burning cycle. When the detonations occur, the outer layers over the former core are violently thrown away, and the core itself may collapse into a black hole, or into a neutron star, or simply a small, helium-based star, known as a wh... |
6 November 2009
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The WET (Whole Earth Telescope) instrument is a global network of observatories, which includes others at various locations worldwide. The ample disposition of the array allows it to keep a specific object under continuous surveillance, for instance, which is precisely what the network is now doing with a “cool... |
16 May 2009
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The American space agency's new delivery system, the ARES I, seems to be faced with a lot of problems. The most recent is one that doesn't come to many people's minds when thinking about going to orbit, and that's bubbles. Indeed, it would appear that engineers at NASA are currently working out ne... |
13 April 2009
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In the past few months, the Large Hadron Collider slowly disappeared from public attention and kept an increasingly lower profile. However, just when not much was expected to be heard about it – since the last statements did not have anything interesting programmed LHC-wise until next June – something act... |
1 December 2008
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India doesn't want to be overshadowed by its Chinese neighbors, who have just performed their first spacewalk. That's why it is striving to impose itself as a world power, despite the fact that it is a country still haunted by poverty, as well as torn by violent manifestations on religious and ethnic groun... |
22 October 2008
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As explained in a recent article, the Large Hadron Collider's latest malfunction was due to the leaking of a major quantity of helium from the superconducting solenoid magnet caused by the melting of an electrical connection because of the high voltage involved. Now, scientists found out that it happened as a r... |
8 October 2008
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Scientists from CERN stated on Saturday that the Large Hadron Collider may be shut down for at least 2 months, following the leak of a large quantity of helium – used in order to cool one of the proton-guiding magnets – into the collider tunnel. This is the last and the worst out of a series of unfortunat... |
22 September 2008
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Helium Foot Software is proud to announce the launch of a public beta for its MercuryMover utility app for Mac. MercuryMover lets you move and resize windows on your Mac using only the keyboard. Download the free trial version now and try it out. It's great!“MercuryMover reduces the friction you feel when ... |
15 September 2008
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Although being the second most abundant element in the universe, making for up to 23 percent of all ordinary matter, helium is one of the most scarce elements on Earth, having a concentration averaging about 5.2 parts per million in Earth's atmosphere. Some studies even suggested that within a few years, the hel... |
25 July 2008
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It's strange how strong the will to fly is in some of us who would do mostly anything to make our dreams come true. Just like this fellow American who, last Saturday, thought it was a good idea to tie 150 giant party balloons to a simple lawn chair and take to the skies. He was successful in his endeavor and, af... |
7 July 2008
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Very little is known about how high-temperature gas in a condensed state - such as the one inside giants like Jupiter, Saturn or other gas giant exoplanets in the galaxy - behaves. In order to get a better understanding of the evolution of gases in these exact thermodynamic conditions, a collaboration between the Lab... |
29 April 2008
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This is the motto of a new company started by Francisco Guerra, specialized in making machines that are able to create Flogos - flying logos - out of a mixture of soap-based foams filled with helium gas. The main goal of the company is to create cloud-like logos of basically anything, then sell them as advertising. "... |
17 April 2008
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Although on Earth helium gas is relatively rare and mostly extracted from natural gas deposits, in the universe helium is the second most abundant element after hydrogen. The U.S. Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory have been successful recently in creating a helium-8 isotope, isolate it and measure its ... |
29 January 2008
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Incredible as it may seem, the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen will soon be unavailable for Earth. Helium gas represents 8 percent of the total mass observed in the universe, but the reserves of the largest helium mining facility located in Texas are predicted to deplete in about eight ye... |
7 January 2008
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Similar to the superfluidity property of helium, supersolidity occurs when matter is cooled at extremely low temperatures. The effect was discovered in 2004, when a team of researchers from the Penn State University, led by Dr. Moses Chan, announced that they had discovered another state of matter, by cooling solid ... |
6 December 2007
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Carl Zeiss does it again. After signing partnerships with some other heavy names in the optical devices industry, they decided to look closer into the medical field or wherever some might need microscopes.This is not Carl Zeiss SMT's first attempt to revolutionize the way we view the world. The giant company ha... |
5 November 2007
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Helium officially rolled out 'Marketplace', a technology that was first tested some months ago and brought an interesting system that was rarely used on the web. Basically, it allows you to earn money by writing articles and by publishing them on 'Marketplace'. Now, let me explain the entire proce... |
21 August 2007
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Supersolidity was first predicted in 1969 by the Russian theorists Alexander Andreev and Ilya Liftshitz.Supersolids are, spatially ordered materials (solids or crystals) with superfluid properties. Along with superfluids, they represent another state of matter, besides the previously known ones: solids, liquids, gas... |
20 June 2007
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Many people have heard about the phrase "absolute zero," not many know what it really implies, and fewer have asked themselves the question "what happens below absolute zero?" Are there upper and lower limits to temperature?Absolute zero is known to be 0 K (-273.15 °C, -459.67 °F) and it's used to describe a th... |
18 June 2007
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What does an electron look like? Is it round, is it a cube, or what? So far, no one has been able to see an electron directly, because photons from a beam of light directed at the electron alter the position of the electron, so they can't bounce back into the eye to form an image. The electron is a fundamental ... |
7 June 2007
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A new discovery made by NASA's Wind spacecraft (launched in November 1994 and deployed to study radio and plasma that occur in solar wind, in the Earth's magnetosphere), showed that helium acts like a sort of throttle for solar wind, regulating its speed by setting a minimum one. The solar wind is a strea... |
18 May 2007
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The waters of the Southern Ocean are cold, remote and difficult to study, posing many questions, still unanswered. A team led by Alberto Naveira Garabato of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has solved one issue: the researchers studied the ocean circulation in the current that flows around Antarctica by ... |
11 May 2007
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Superfluidity is a phase of matter or description of heat capacity, in which, superconductivity and "unusual" effects are observed when liquids, typically of helium-3, helium-4 or hydrogen, overcome friction by surface interaction when at a stage, known as "lambda point", at which the liquid's viscosity becomes... |
25 April 2007
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