While advocates of healthy eating look for options of substituting sodium in salt, nuclear physicists working on making nuclear fusion a reality are also looking for substitutes of their own. They have thus far discovered that sodium-like tungsten ions could successfully replace the troublesome element, and that they... |
11 September 2009
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The March 12th issue of the journal Nature features one of the most interesting articles to date, in which researchers from Stony Brook University (SBU) and Jilin University (JU) show that the element sodium (chemical symbol Na) can become transparent when subjected to high pressures. This behavior was thought to be ... |
13 March 2009
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The Miami-based corporation announced recently that it would move for the reduction of sodium quantities it currently puts in its foods, especially in meals designed and advertised for children below the age of 12. One of the last fast-food chains to comply with the new health measure set in place by the National Ins... |
20 November 2008
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Recent calculations performed by a US plasma physicist suggest that noctilucent clouds do not bounce off radar signals because of their silver plating, but because of their, albeit small, metal content.Blue polar mesospheric clouds, as the late twilight residents are sometimes called, form at the boundaries between a... |
16 October 2008
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New observations on one of the most mysterious planets in the solar system suggest that Mercury has a comet-like tail. However, while the cometary tails are relatively bright and often visible with the naked eye from the surface of the Earth, Mercury's tail is less visible in the visible spectrum. Previous obser... |
6 February 2008
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The U.S Department of Energy has started a three-year project which will research the creation of a new generation of computers for a new kind of nuclear reactor, proposed by physics professor Michael Podowski. The reactor is called a sodium-cooled fast reactor, of SFR for short.Nuclear reactors are mainly used in nu... |
2 November 2007
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Chili peppers can send you to hell and maybe back (we don't know for sure…), but even so, what causes sufferance can also bring relief. Capsaicin, the 'hell-inducing' chemical from the jalapeños and habañeros is already a main ingredient in a balm for stiff joints and arthritis. A new study reveals how... |
4 October 2007
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After a long run in the heat, the only thing you can think about is a bottle of cold water that you'd just drink at once. Water is refreshing, but is it healthy in this case?W. Larry Kenney, Penn State professor of physiology and kinesiology, says a sports drink would be more appropriate. "Sports drinks have ext... |
12 May 2007
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The power of Superman is at our reach. Kryptonite, the green mineral that sapped the hero's power when exposed to it, has turned from fiction to reality, as a similar one has just been discovered by a team from the mining group Rio Tinto in a Serbian mine. "The real mineral is white and harmless. (...) it'... |
24 April 2007
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