NASA scientists discover spring thaw makes a difference
Using a suite of microwave remote sensing instruments aboard satellites, scie...help from NASA radars and other orbiting satellite microwave remote sensing instruments, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Special ...Science's breakthrough of the year: Illumination of the dark, expanding universe
... took the most detailed picture ever of the cosmic microwave background -- the light emitted by the universe during the first instant of its existence. By analyzing patterns in this light, researchers concluded that the universe is only 4 percent ordinary matter. Twenty-three percent is dark matter, which astr...AGU journal highlights - 6 January 2004
...th.They based their analysis on anomalously strong microwave activityseen in regions known to have enhanced dus...nerates radiation that can bemeasured by radio and microwave emissions in the ultra-lowfrequency range. Such triboelectric charging of dust is especiallylikely t...Models help estimate children's exposure to toxins
...eck said. Leckie is no alarmist. He regularly eats microwave popcorn even though he knows he is ingesting small amounts of perfluorinated hydrocarbons, synthetic chemicals that repel water and oil. No one knows if the compound, used to line microwaveable bags, poses any risk. For now Leckie has no plans to for...Design of composite materials that detect terahertz discovered
...re intermediate between those of infrared rays and microwave rays. "When we developed the initial left handed materials that responded in the microwave range, we were not certain if it were technically feasible to develop materials that responded to hi...MIT aims radar research at breast cancer
...breast cancer have enrolled in the study, in which microwave energy focused externally on the breast is deliver...y. Celsion Corp. exclusively licenses the focused microwave thermotherapy technology from MIT. The company has developed the clinical thermotherapy system and i...ESA consults European science community on candidate Earth Explorer missions
... mission consists of a core platform equipped with microwave instruments and a number of smaller satellites to ...t 510 km altitude with two instruments on board, a microwave radiometer and a precipitation radar. Swarm a constellation of three magnetometry satellites to p...ESA and EADS-CASA sign contract to build instrument for the SMOS mission
... instrument has been designed to capture images of microwave radiation emitted from the surface of the Earth at L-band (1.4 GHz). MIRAS is made up of a central structure and three deployable arms. There are 69 antenna elements, so-called LICEF receivers, which are equally distributed over the central structur...FSU scientists develop new tests to detect nut allergens in processed food
... roasting, pressure cooking, blanching, frying and microwave heating in an effort to make them safe for allergy sufferers. In the end, the nutritious little nuggets refused to surrender their allergens, but the research yielded sensitive techniques that detect minute traces of the nuts -- potentially fatal to ...