Posts Tagged «Spectroscopy»
The ingredients for Earth-like planets are present throughout our galaxy July 13, 2015 at 11:30 am
It turns out Earth-like planets are three times more likely to have the same minerals as Earth than previously expected — and that the minerals are found throughout our galaxy.
Exoplanet’s visible light spectrum measured for the first time April 28, 2015 at 9:31 am
The spectrum measurement was courtesy of the HARPS planet-hunting machine and ESO’s La Silla Observatory 3.6-meter telescope in Chile.
Handheld device allows anyone to instantly test drinks for date rape drugs July 21, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Date rape drugs are shockingly commonplace in nightclubs, college campuses, and private parties across the world. To help solve this problem, a small team from Toronto, Ontario is crowdfunding the pd.id — the “personal drink ID.” With a device the size of a thumb drive, anyone can test to see if a drink has been tampered with.
Bomb-detecting lasers could be the next upgrade to airport security September 11, 2013 at 9:32 am
Using pulsed lasers in the visible spectrum could let airports and other security checkpoints find trace amounts of explosive compounds — or of just about anything else.
Scientists will use cosmic rays to peer inside Fukushima reactor August 23, 2013 at 7:31 am
Muons created in the upper atmosphere will let researchers from Los Alamos National Labs see the state of the heavily shielded core of the damaged and dangerous Fukushima reactor. The researchers are using cosmic rays to create what is essentially an X-ray of the core’s damage.
Researchers find that life on Earth could have originated from space ice dust March 2, 2013 at 9:31 am
This week, researchers announced that they used a powerful telescope called the Green Bank Telescope to identify two of the most sought-after life-forming molecules — and they’ve found them floating on ice grains near the center of the galaxy.
Hairspray (not the musical) may reveal interplanetary alien civilizations November 23, 2012 at 8:55 am
When Douglas Adams wrote the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, he created a species called the Jatravartids; small blue aliens with more than fifty arms and the distinction of being the only race to invent aerosol deodorant before the wheel. Now a new study tells us how we might find the Jatravartids, or any similar societies, by looking for effects of CFCs in the atmospheres of alien planets.
How terahertz laser scanners will spy on you in airports July 11, 2012 at 6:35 am
Who’d have thought tricorders came with so many privacy concerns?