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With prom season approaching and the weather heating up, women around the country are ready to add Belts and More's wares to their wardrobes. LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A retail fashion or clothing business must keep on top of trends and the recurring ebbs and flows of the industry in order to maintain long-term success. They must accommodate seasonal changes in wardrobe while also adjusting their inventories for timely events like prom, graduation, and more. They do...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers reported in the journal Energy & Environmental Science they have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could be used in solar and wind energy. Electrical grids are unable to tolerate large and sudden power fluctuations caused by intermittent sunlight and wind. The team saw the need for energy storage systems to help smooth out the peaks and valleys of this intermittent power. Researchers from the US...
Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Materials engineers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have developed a structural nanofiber that is found to posses both strength and toughness; two qualities that are traditionally mutually exclusive. Findings from their work will be published this week in the April issue of the American Chemical Society's journal, ACS Nano. The materials engineers group made the nanofiber using polyacrilonitrile nanofiber, a synthetic polymer...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists at CERN have submitted a paper to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters about the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry. The team said they made the observation while looking at the decay rate of particles known as B0s mesons. They now say that their findings indicate that antimatter decays at a faster rate than antimatter. Matter and antimatter are thought to have existed in equal amounts at the...
Extends the Company's Patent Estate for its Nano-based LSPR platform MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LamdaGen Corporation, a nano-technology platform company that provides plasmonic sensors and systems for diagnostics and life sciences, announced the United State Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) issuance of patent "Enzymatic Assays for LSPR" for performing quantitative diagnostics via Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR). The patent claims broadly cover...
Magnetic bracelet for pain relief in seconds will be at Encinitas Street Fair announced Superior Magnetics for Pain Free Living. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 23, 2013 Pain Free Living - SuperiorMagnetics.com will be in space #616 at the Encinitas Street Fair this weekend to demonstrate pain relief in seconds with their magnetic bracelet for arthritis. This magnetic health bracelet for pain uses N54 neodymium magnets with a strength of 5400 Gauss. During the magnetic bracelet demonstration...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers at the Kavli IPMU, led by Robert Quimby, have discovered the first ever Type Ia supernova (SNIa), extraordinarily magnified by a gravitational lens. Scientists wrote in the Astrophysics Journal Letters they discovered the supernova, PS1-10afx, with the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System 1 (Pan-STARRS1). The supernova exploded over 9 billion years ago, making it a much further object than most studied...
Critical for Fuel, Emissions and Safety System Quality Control SYRACUSE, N.Y., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Auto makers and their suppliers are looking for new leak-detection technology to help reduce manufacturing costs, improve product quality and increase overall customer satisfaction. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121022/DE97359LOGO ) Traditional leak-detection methods often do not meet current needs for continual improvements in cost performance and production...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Researchers have identified what causes light emitting diodes (LEDs) to be less efficient at high drive currents, opening up the door for the energy efficient lighting alternative to be better implemented. Previously, scientists had only theorized about the cause behind LED "droop," which refers to a mysterious drop in the amount of light produced when a higher current is applied to the lights. This phenomenon has helped hold LED...
An international team of scientists has shed new light on a fundamental area of physics which could have important implications for future electronic devices and the transfer of information at the quantum level. The electrical currents currently used to power electronic devices are generated by a flow of charges. However, emerging quantum technologies such as spin-electronics, make use of both charge and another intrinsic property of electrons – their spin – to transfer and process...
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Nuclear fallout, or just simply fallout, known also as Black Rain, is the residual radioactive material that is propelled into the upper atmosphere after a nuclear black or a nuclear reaction that is conducted in an unshielded facility. It is so called because it "fall out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave have passed. It most commonly refers to the radioactive dust and ash that is created when a nuclear weapon explodes, but such dust can also come from a damaged nuclear...
Image Caption: The Hubble Extreme Deep Field (XDF) was completed in September 2012 and shows the farthest galaxies ever photographed by humans. Each speck of light in the photo is an individual galaxy, some of them as old as 13.2 billion years; the observable universe is estimated to contain more than 200 billion galaxies. Credit: NASA/Wikipedia What is Cosmology? I once commented to an acquaintance that I was fascinated by the field of Cosmology, and mused that if I had more time, I...
Image Caption: NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light-years in diameter and approximately 60 million light-years distant. Credit: NASA/ESA/Wikipedia What is Astrophysics? For much of the modern age the term Astrophysics has been used synonymously with Astronomy. This interchange is so common that many textbooks even offer the two as having the same meaning. However, from a strictly historical perspective there are differences...
Image Credit: Meteorologist Joshua Kelly When meteorologists are forecasting for ocean-going vessels, there are a few terms that we need to understand. The first term is wavelength. Wavelength is defined as the distance between two crests or between two troughs as seen in the image above. The example above highlights the crest to crest concept of wavelength. The next term that we use is wave height, and to determine this, we first must look at the wave when it passes our station. When...
Solar cycles: what are they and why should we care about them? Solar cycles are made up of what are known as solar minimums (min) and solar maximums (max). We refer to a solar min at the time when the sun is not active with many sunspots, while a solar max is just the opposite when we see a large increase in sunspot activity. So how long do solar cycles last? Typically they run on what is known as an 11 year cycle from the max to the min and then start over again anew. As of 2012 we...
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