Testing the waters: 1,4-Dioxane in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River Basin

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It was an email from a colleague that tipped off environmental engineer Detlef Knappe of possible 1,4-dioxane contamination

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Full Moon in White Sky Large Poster

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High Resolution Full Moon on white background

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Wearables may get boost from boron-infused graphene

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Flexible, wearable electronics may benefit from graphene microsupercapacitors infused with boron and made with a common laser.
via Science Daily

Orion Nebula and Trapezium Stars Square Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult stars. Look carefully in the brightest central region and you'll see the Trapezium, four of the most massive stars in Orion.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

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Auroras and Star Trails over Iceland

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Electricity generating nano-wizards

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Just as alchemists always dreamed of turning common metal into gold, their 19th century physicist counterparts dreamed of efficiently turning heat into electricity, a field called thermoelectrics. Such scientists had long known that in conducting materials the flow of energy in the form of heat is accompanied by a flow of electrons. What they did not know at the time is that it takes nanometric-scale systems for the flow of charge and heat to reach a level of efficiency that cannot be achieved with larger scale systems. Now, in a paper published in EPJ B, Barbara Szukiewicz and Karol Wysokiński from Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, in Lublin, Poland have demonstrated the importance of thermoelectric effects, which are not easily modelled, in nanostructures.

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Heart Nebula IC 1805 Wall Graphic

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Heart Nebula IC 1805 Wall Graphic

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A mosaic of images from WISE in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This region contains a large star forming nebula within the Milky Way Galaxy, called IC 1805 (sometimes called the Heart Nebula), a portion of which is seen at the right of the image. IC 1805 is over 6 thousand light-years from Earth. Also visible in this image are two nearby galaxies, Maffei 1 and Maffei 2. Available on posters, canvas prints, phone cases and many great gifts.

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Jet in Carina iPad Mini Covers

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Another pretty picture courtesy of NASA's Hubble program of a stellar jet in the Carina Nebula.

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Magnetic Orion

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Planck portrays stellar birth and magnetic turbulence in the Orion Molecular Cloud
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From brittle to plastic in one breath

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What if peanut brittle, under certain conditions, behaved like taffy? Something like that happens to a two-dimensional dichalcogenide

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New technique shows shale-drilling additives in drinking-water taps near leak

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Substances commonly used for drilling or extracting Marcellus shale gas foamed from the drinking water taps of three

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The Orion Nebula Print

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A massive image of The Orion Nebula in infrared, thanks to NASA/Hubble Space Telescope Program. The image file is 6000x6000.

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Large Magellanic Cloud Superbubble in Nebula N44 Square Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome photograph from deep space featuring a super bubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a small satellite of our Milky Way galaxy around 160000 light years from us.
The massive stars of this nebula produce intense radiation, expelling matter at high speeds, and race through their main stage finally to explode as supernovas. The stellar winds of charged hydrogen and other particles and the supernova shock waves carve out huge cavities called superbubbles in the surrounding gas. Blue shows hot regions created by these winds and shocks, while red shows where the dust and cooler gas are found. Yellow regions show where ultraviolet radiation from hot, young stars is causing gas in the nebula to glow.

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Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m

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Carina Nebula Case For The iPad Mini

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Latest re-worked release from NASA/Hubble featuring: "Cosmic Ice Sculptures: Dust Pillars in the Carina Nebula".

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