How electrons split: New evidence of exotic behaviors
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 26, 2014 -
Electrons may be seen as small magnets that also carry a negative electrical charge. On a fundamental level, these two properties are indivisible. However, in certain materials where the electrons are constrained in a quasi one-dimensional world, they appear to split into a magnet and an electrical charge, which can move freely and independently of each other.
A longstanding question has b ...
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Breakthrough in predictions of pressure-dependent combustion reactions
Livermore CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2014 -
Researchers at Sandia and Argonne national laboratories have demonstrated, for the first time, a method to successfully predict pressure-dependent chemical reaction rates. It's an important breakthrough in combustion and atmospheric chemistry that is expected to benefit auto and engine manufacturers, oil and gas utilities and other industries that employ combustion models.
A paper describi ...
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HD remote sensing images cover China's landmass
Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2014 -
China can now view the entire country's land mass using HD satellite images, it was announced at a national geo-mapping conference held on Friday.
According to a statement issued by the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, China began capturing remote-sensing images with clear view of objects of a meter in length or smaller since 2012.
By October 2014, su ...
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Life on an aquaplanet
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 29, 2014 -
Nearly 2,000 planets beyond our solar system have been identified to date. Whether any of these exoplanets are hospitable to life depends on a number of criteria. Among these, scientists have thought, is a planet's obliquity - the angle of its axis relative to its orbit around a star.
Earth, for instance, has a relatively low obliquity, rotating around an axis that is nearly perpendicular ...
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Russia Launches Soyuz-2.1b Rocket Carrying Satellite: Defense Ministry
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 29, 2014 -
Russia has launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a communications satellite from the Plesetsk space center located in the north of the country, the Defense Ministry's spokesperson told RIA Novosti Thursday.
"On Thursday, December 25, 2014, at 06:01 a.m. Moscow time [03:01 GMT]...a successful launch of a medium-class space rocket "Soyuz-2.1b" was carried out," Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, a ...
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Russia Launches European Communications Satellite Atop Proton-M Rocket
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 29, 2014 -
A Russian Proton-M space rocket carrying a European Astra-2G communications satellite lifted off Sunday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for Russia's space agency Roscosmos said.
"The launch was carried out as planned - at 00.38 Moscow time [21:38 GMT Saturday]," the official said.
The Proton-M, built by the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, i ...
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Astra 2G Satellite Roars Into Orbit
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Dec 29, 2014 -
SES S.A. reports that the ASTRA 2G satellite roared into space on board an ILS Proton Breeze M booster last night at 03:37:49 Baikonur time (22:37:49 CET and 16:37:49 EST on December 27). After a 9-hour, 12-minute mission, the Breeze M upper stage of the Proton rocket successfully released the ASTRA 2G satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
ASTRA 2G will be deployed at the 28.2/28.5 ...
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