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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

Intergalactic magnifying glasses could help astronomers map galaxy centers

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 07:52 PM PDT

Astronomers may have found a new way to map quasars, the energetic and luminous central regions often found in distant galaxies.

Rocket-launched camera reveals highways and sparkles in the solar atmosphere

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 07:52 PM PDT

Using an innovative new camera on board a sounding rocket, an international team of scientists have captured the sharpest images yet of the Sun's outer atmosphere. The team discovered fast-track 'highways' and intriguing 'sparkles' that may help answer a long-standing solar mystery.

The quantum secret to alcohol reactions in space

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Chemists have discovered that an 'impossible' reaction at cold temperatures actually occurs with vigor, which could change our understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed in space.

Diamond catalyst shows promise in breaching age-old barrier

Posted: 30 Jun 2013 11:44 AM PDT

In the world, there are a lot of small molecules people would like to get rid of, or at least convert to something useful. Think carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most responsible for far-reaching effects on global climate. Nitrogen is another ubiquitous small-molecule gas that can be transformed into the valuable agricultural fertilizer ammonia. Plants perform the chemical reduction of atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia as a matter of course, but for humans to do that in an industrial setting, a necessity for modern agriculture, requires subjecting nitrogen to massive amounts of energy under high pressure. Now a new method may make a big difference.
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