Until now, one of the largest mysteries associated with understanding how clouds form was how the atmospheric structures at times appear to form faster than the basic laws of physics allow for. Physicists now believe they may have uncovered the answer.The mechanism through which “usual” clouds form is fai... |
7 December 2010
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For many years, the process of stellar formation has remained shrouded in mystery. But over the past few years, several studies have shed more light on these events, and also on their influences on their surroundings. Instrumental in these studies was analyzing so-called fossil galaxies, which feature properties that... |
7 October 2010
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A group of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the development of a new control system for airplanes that allow the aircraft to land as birds do. The experts even demonstrated their concept using a foam glider, which was equipped with a single motor. The group made the instrumen... |
26 July 2010
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In a bid to gain a deeper understanding in the formation and operation of turbulent flows, physicists at the University of Warwick have made clever use of the Ulysses spacecraft, as well as of the fact that the Sun is still at its solar minimum. The result was the equivalent of a lab workbench more than 200 million m... |
12 December 2009
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According to a growing body of evidence, it may be that rearranging wind turbines in fish school-like patterns could contribute to reducing the land surface the large structures take up, while at the same time preserving, or even increasing the output. Estimates say that the surface such a setup would occupy would be... |
25 November 2009
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Analyzing the behavior of sea waves is notoriously hard to do, and requires a bit of creative thinking on the part of scientists to perform. But experts at the Geesthacht GKSS Research Center, in Germany, have recently devised a new system of doing just that, which relies on radar antennas for studying the surface of... |
13 August 2009
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In a new study, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have managed to accomplish a long-standing goal in quantum network technology, namely the storage of a light beam in a cold atom gas. This will open the way for new types of atomic quantum memory that could store information inside quantum netwo... |
20 July 2009
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Airplanes could benefit from a new weather control system in the near future, currently under development by the American space agency NASA, and a partnership between the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, Colorado and the University of Wisconsin. The new warning method will employ satellite... |
8 July 2009
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