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Trapping antimatter so it finally can be studied
The ALPHA trap for antihydrogen….credit: N.Madsen, ALPHA/Swansea The problem with antimatter is that it is very anti-social; it doesn’t stick around long enough to get to know it. Matter, the stuff we and everything we know is made of, destroys…annihilates antimatter immediately (or the other way around, if you like). The explosive nature of matter [...]
Posted in News: Nuclear Physics Also tagged AEgIS, ALPHA, antimatter, ASACUSA, ATRAP, Big Bang, CERN, matter, octupole magnet, RIKEN Leave a comment
Published results: LCROSS lunar impact reveals scientific treasure
The hypothesis: In the shadows of deep craters that pock the south pole of the Moon there might be ever-frozen water. The experiment: Guide the final stages of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) rocket into one of the craters and crash it into the surface, hopefully sending a plume of dust into [...]
Life on Titan through a hydrocarbon haze
The hazy methane-red surface of Titan. NASA/JPL Even before the wildly successful Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its lunar neighborhood, scientists have looked at the largest moon, Titan, studied it with telescopes and other instruments, noted its methane-rich atmosphere, its extreme cold (around 90 degrees Kelvin, -183C or -290F), and wondered if somehow in its [...]
Posted in News: Exogenous Life Also tagged acetylene, astrobiology, Cassini, Huygens, methane-based life, NASA, organic chemistry, Saturn, Titan Leave a comment
Toyota preps hydrogen-hybrid vehicle (FCHV) for production
Toyota FCHV (fuel-cell hybrid)…Credit: Masaru Kamikura When it comes to clean transportation – the proof is in the performance. There are literally scores of ‘green’ vehicles on the drawing-boards (actually, in a computer model) or in a prototype. Few, if any, of these will be seen on a public road. So when a major automobile [...]
Posted in News: Clean Transportation Also tagged battery, electric car, FCHV, fuel cell, Honda, hybrid vehicle, Toyota Comments closed
Using artificial photosynthesis (in a virus) to split water
In general, SciTechStory doesn’t start tracking a technology that’s (a) incomplete in implementation and (b) many years from application (if ever). Maybe this one is an exception: Using a virus to support artificial photosynthesis that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen. It sounds pretty strange (not that this is a qualification for coverage herein), but [...]
Posted in Impact: Synthetic Biology Also tagged artificial photosynthesis, iridium oxide, photon, photosynthesis, synthetic biology, virus, zinc porfyrins 2 Comments
On the Moon or elsewhere: Follow the water
In the detective business, the standard advice is: “Follow the money.” In human space exploration, perhaps somewhat similar advice applies: “Follow the water.” This needs debate, however there are some potent arguments in favor of the notion that human (as differentiated from robotic or probe) exploration of space should go where sources of water are [...]
Posted in Impact: Space Exploration Also tagged Enceladus, Europa, Mars, Moon, moon water, NEOs, oxygen, rocket fuel, space travel, water, water-ice Leave a comment
Fuel cell technology: Fuel from an ‘artificial leaf’