Cutting solar support would scrap jobs
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 26, 2014 -
Slashing the support for solar provided by the Renewable Energy Target would lead to the immediate loss of up to 5800 jobs and make it harder for low and middle-income households to access technology to reduce their power bills, the Clean Energy Council said Tuesday.
Clean Energy Council Acting Chief Executive Kane Thornton said speculation that Prime Minister Tony Abbott was moving to axe ...
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Electron microscopy enables imaging of gold nanoparticles
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 25, 2014 -
Nanometre-scale gold particles are intensively investigated for application as catalysts, sensors, drug delivery devices, biological contrast agents and components in photonics and molecular electronics. Gaining knowledge of their atomic-scale structures, fundamental for understanding physical and chemical properties, has been challenging.
Now, researchers at Stanford University, USA, have ...
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New Properties of Rotating Superfluids Discovered in Helium Nanodroplets
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2014 -
Liquid helium, when cooled down nearly to absolute zero, exhibits unusual properties that scientists have struggled to understand: it creeps up walls and flows freely through impossibly small channels, completely lacking viscosity. It becomes a new state of matter - a "superfluid."
Now a large, international team of researchers led by scientists at USC, Stanford and Berkeley has used X-ray ...
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Real 20 per cent Renewable Energy Target would decimate industry
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2014 -
A new paper released by the Clean Energy Council shows that cutting the Renewable Energy Target to a so-called 'real' 20 per cent figure would reduce the amount of new large-scale renewable energy built by almost two thirds (64 per cent) and devastate investments already made under the policy.
Clean Energy Council Acting Chief Executive Kane Thornton said the proposal to reduce the Renewab ...
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Removing the outcome unpredictability of ultracold atomic reactions
Manhattan KS (SPX) Aug 26, 2014 -
Findings from a physics study by a Kansas State University researcher are helping scientists accurately predict the once unpredictable.
Yujun Wang, research associate with the James R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University, and Paul Julienne at the University of Maryland, looked at theoretically predicting and understanding chemical reactions that involve three atoms at ultracold ...
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Scientists observe quantum vortices in cold helium droplets
Helmholtz, Germany (SPX) Aug 27, 2014 -
An international research team including DESY scientists has observed tiny quantum vortices in cold droplets of liquid helium. The team reports in the journal Science that the exotic vortices arrange themselves as densely packed lattices inside the nanodroplets.
It is the first time that the quantum vortices, which have already been observed in larger samples of what is known as superfluid ...
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Introducing the multi-tasking nanoparticle
Sacramento CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2014 -
Kit Lam and colleagues from UC Davis and other institutions have created dynamic nanoparticles (NPs) that could provide an arsenal of applications to diagnose and treat cancer. Built on an easy-to-make polymer, these particles can be used as contrast agents to light up tumors for MRI and PET scans or deliver chemo and other therapies to destroy tumors.
In addition, the particles are biocom ...
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