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    Fake Diamonds are a Turbofan's Best Friend

    By Matt Ransford Posted on 3.20.2008 0 Comments

    Kids arent the only ones who think fake diamonds are hot. Engineers at Ohio State University are using zirconium dioxide (the ceramic from which we get synthetic diamonds) to protect jet engines from high-temperature corrosion.

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    Signs of Life Found Orbiting an Exoplanet–Sort of

    By Gregory Mone Posted on 3.20.2008 10 Comments

    Everyone seems to be double-extra-cautiously optimistic about this finding, so dont go running out to your telescope tonight looking for greetings from friendly space creatures. But in work reported today in Nature, astronomers say they used the Hubble Space Telescopes infrared imager to pick up signs of methane in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star some 63 million light years from Earth. And methane, an organic molecule, is an indicator of the possible presence of life.


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