Science news articles about 'xenon'

  • New System May Allow Xenon Use To Protect Brain In Critically Ill Newborns

    ... xenon gas can help protect the infant brain from damage caused by oxygen deprivation, but the xenon's high cost and scarcity has precluded its widespread use. A newly developed "closed circuit system ...
  • Hard Drive Recovered from Columbia Shuttle Solves Physics Problem [News]

    ... contained data from the CVX-2 (Critical Viscosity of Xenon) experiment, designed to study the way ... Review E, confirmed that when stirred vigorously, xenon exhibits a sudden change in viscosity known ...
  • Warming up for magnetic resonance imaging

    ... have thousands of xenon nuclei just sitting around the cage." The trick then is to depolarize the xenon nuclei in the immediate vicinity of the cages, which will serve to outline the target in high ...
  • Quantum chaos unveiled?

    ... in a quantum system – in the magnetic "spins" within the nuclei or centers of atoms of frozen xenon, which normally is a gas and has been tested for making medical images of lungs. The new study – ...
  • All I want for Christmas is... Caesium, Rubidium and Xenon

    (PhysOrg.com) -- Never mind Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh — one Christmas wishlist this year features staples of the chemistry lab like Rubidium, Hydrogen, Caesium and Manganese.
  • Stanford writes in world's smallest letters

    ... at a certain computer company famously spelled out the letters IBM by arranging 35 individual xenon atoms. Now, in a paper published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the Stanford ...
  • Optical techniques show continued promise in detecting pancreatic cancer

    ... that the two combined work better than one alone in pancreatic cancer screening. During the test, a xenon lamp shines intense, white light through a series of lenses and filters onto the specimen -- ...
  • At the limits of the photoelectric effect

    ... something else – at least with some atoms – happens: With xenon, a whole light-wave packet immediately seems ... , inner electron shells. In the extreme case (xenon), a whole wave packet of photons seems ...
  • Study gives clues to increasing X-rays' power

    ... applied HHG theory to heavier (and more rare) gaseous atoms having many electrons – elements such as xenon, argon and krypton. They discovered that the process would unleash high-energy X-rays with ...
  • Searching For Dark Matter In the World's Deepest Underground Lab

    ... building an underground science lab where, in a 300-kilogram tank filled with liquid xenon, they hope to find dark matter -- the material that scientists believe was instrumental in helping to form ...
  • Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

    ... senior scientist who led work there to develop HEIGHTS. The laser method creates plasma by heating xenon, tin or lithium. The plasma produces high-energy packets of light, called photons, of extreme ...
  • IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms (w/ Video)

    ... , Eigler and his team used a custom-built microscope to spell out the letters IBM with 35 xenon atoms. This unprecedented ability to manipulate individual atoms signaled a quantum leap forward in in ...
  • Hyper-SAGE boosts remote MRI sensitivity

    ... Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley. The key to this technique is xenon gas that has been zapped with laser light to "hyperpolarize" the spins of its atomic nuclei so ...
  • New concept may enhance Earth-Mars communication

    ... cutting-edge electric ion propulsion. The ion thrusters, powered by solar electricity and using tiny amounts of xenon gas as propellant, would hold the satellites in a B-orbit in full view of both ...
  • New hydrogen-storage method discovered

    ... in the November 22, 2009, advanced online publication of Nature Chemistry. Xenon has some intriguing properties, including its use as an anesthesia, its ability to preserve biological tissues, and ...

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