Monday 6 October 2014

Monitoring heavy metals using mussels

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A research team in Malaysia has concluded that caged mussels are useful for monitoring heavy metal contamination in

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Northern Lights Or Aurora Borealis, Tilton Lake, S Posters

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TEDed and CERN team up to animate cosmic rays

A low-energy optical circuit for a new era of technology

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Vincenzo Savona and Romuald Houdré ©2014 Alain Herzog/EPFL Optical circuits use light instead of electricity, making them faster

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Sites vie for European Mars landing

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The European Space Agency produces a list of four possible locations on Mars where it could send a rover in 2018. 
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Keyhole Nebula and Digitus Impudicus Rectangle Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the 'Keyhole Nebula, ' obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a montage assembled from four different April 1999 telescope pointings with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which used six different colour filters. The picture is dominated by a large, approximately circular feature, which is part of the Keyhole Nebula, named in the 19th century by Sir John Herschel. This region, about 8000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right. The Carina Nebula also contains several other stars that are among the hottest and most massive known, each about 10 times as hot, and 100 times as massive, as our Sun.

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Rosetta’s comet at ESA

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Space Science Image of the Week: Rosetta’s comet touches down at ESA’s technology centre for Open Day

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Space Station Detector Finds Unexplained Positron Excess

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Nanoparticles break the symmetry of light

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How can a beam of light tell the difference between left and right? At the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) tiny particles have been coupled to a glass fibre. The particles emit light into the fibre in such a way that it does not travel in both directions, as one would expect. Instead, the light can be directed either to the left or to the right. This has become possible by employing a remarkable physical effect – the spin-orbit coupling of light. This new kind of optical switch has the potential to revolutionize nanophotonics.



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Using solar energy to turn raw materials into ingredients for everyday life

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Just about everything we touch in the course of a day – car, phone, computer, fridge, detergent –

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Milky Way Galaxy Posters

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Sculpted Region of the Orion Nebula Stickers

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A region within the Orion Nebula showing the sculpting effect that stars can have on any surrounding gas clouds. This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the nearby Trapezium stars - collide with material.

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