Sentences with phrase «for liquid surfaces»

Their moons, though, might have the right conditions for liquid surface water and therefore for life to emerge and evolve.

Not exact matches

The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.

Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an Earth - like planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water - and therefore potentially life - to exist on its surface.

When ready, use a skewer to make a number of small holes in the surface of the cake and drizzle the lemon liquid onto the sponge, directing into the holes, so that it soaks into the inside of the cake (I used a syringe for accuracy).

The acquisition follows a difficult few days for Dairy Crest, which saw its share value plummet by more than 6 per cent at the beginning of last week, after reports surfaced that it could lose out on a new contract to supply Morrisons, the UK's fourth largest multiple retailer, with fresh liquid milk to rival processor Robert Wiseman Dairies.

My niece has stomach problems and is allergic to wheat, dairy and eggs so I tried to make her lemon poppyseed mini cakes and used gluten free flour, coconut oil and egg replacer, (recipe called for 2 1/4 cup flour, 1 1/3 cup butter, 5 eggs) but when I mixed it up it was like paste and liquid y on top, put it in the pan and baked it, (350) and the oil and water separated and came to the surface, looked like I was deep frying, needless to say it came out like hardtack, what's wrong??

Let braising liquid settle for 5 minutes, then remove fat from surface using large spoon.

8) Oval Oak Wine Carafe — Topped with a sparse oak sphere to help protect oxygen from the liquid, this carafe's teardrop shape provides just enough surface for wine to aerate.

If you cook with oil or butter for your pancakes, you're making a hyrdocarbon based oil film across the entire first surface of the pancake, effectively sealing the voids created at the evaporation of liquid into the batter matrix.

A cheap easy idea for a kids room revamp is blackboard paint — I am still amazed how something liquid can morph into a hard surface which you can write in but that's science for you!

Here was my shopping list: Dr. Bonners Peppermint Liquid Soap Dr. Bronner's SAL SUDS Mountain Green Glass and Surface Cleaner Baking Soda Peppermint Essential Oil I use the baking soda and essential oil to make secnted scrubs for tough jobs like soap scum in the shower, the toilet, or cleaning my oven.

Liquid water is not a prerequisite for a high score: A planet with liquids on the surface receives more points than a dry world, but the presence of water confers no additional advantage.

«Aside from being unusual, the other implication of these fractals is that in order for them to form the surface tension of the liquid metal must be close to zero,» Daniels says.

Gathering more detailed data on surface chemistry, the history of liquid water, climate cycles, and the exact constituents of the atmosphere are critical to building a case for — or against — life.

With knowledge only of the luminosity of the star (1/600 that of the sun), the mass of the planet (1.3 times that of Earth), and the length of its orbit (11.2 days), the team was able to predict that, with a variety of possible atmospheres, it would be possible for Proxima b to harbor liquid water on its surface.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth and well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

If not for its thick atmosphere, Venus's surface would be cool enough to support liquid water.

Current methods can estimate the size and temperature of an exoplanet planet in order to determine whether liquid water could exist on the planet's surface, believed to be one of the criteria for a planet hosting the right conditions for life.

What's more, one of the planets is in the stars» habitable zone, the region around the suns where temperatures are just right for liquid water — and therefore maybe life — to exist on a planet's surface.

But planets this close to a cooler star, like a red dwarf, might have the right surface temperatures for liquid water.

As a result, the planet sits in its star's habitable zone, and its surface temperature may be right for it to host liquid water.

Researchers say this antifreeze effect makes it possible for liquid water to be widespread just below the surface of Mars, but point out that even if it is there, it may be too salty to support life as we know it.

These findings should «be of value for a wide range of research areas, such as the study of nonwetting surfaces by the Leidenfrost effect and nanotextured features, enhanced liquid droplet bouncing, and film boiling of liquid droplets on heated Cassie surfaces,» he added.

Water vapor is indicative of liquid surface water, which is necessary but not sufficient for life as we know it.

For years, researchers have known that the harmless change, known as a fat bloom, is caused by liquid fat such as cocoa butter migrating through the chocolate and crystalizing on the candy's surface.

Studying how the dwarf planet's climate changed over time shows it once had the right conditions for liquid to flow on its surface - and may still have buried lakes today

When the tear film functions properly, a thin liquid film coats the eye surface during a blink by the upper eyelid, creating a smooth optical surface for vision and allowing us to see clearly.

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THINKING OUTSIDE THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE The hunt for extraterrestrial life has long focused on planets at a just - right distance from alien stars, where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface.

For example, a colloid in the shape of a sphere will cause the liquid crystal molecules to align perpendicular to the surface of the sphere, a bit like a hedgehog's spikes.

The researchers used water and water mixed with glycerin to create a model for predicting the velocity and height of the droplets, or jet aerosols, cast upward as bubbles on a liquid's surface burst.

The approach itself is relatively simple: Since steam is generated at the surface of a liquid, Ghasemi looked for a material that could both efficiently absorb sunlight and generate steam at a liquid's surface.

«The separation between the planet and its star is just right for having liquid water at its surface,» says astronomer and team spokesperson Stephane Udry of the Observatory of Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland.

It is prone to inaccuracies, though, for surfaces that are highly repellent to liquid.

When the planet K2 - 18b was first discovered in 2015, it was found to be orbiting within the star's habitable zone, making it an ideal candidate to have liquid surface water, a key element in harbouring conditions for life as we know it.

Recently, the same group of physicists showed that the percentage of space occupied by solids for a unit - area surface can indeed significantly affect liquid droplets» sliding behaviour on surfaces with micro-pillar structures.

After years of scrutinizing the closest star to Earth, a red dwarf known as Proxima Centauri, astronomers have finally found evidence for a planet, slightly bigger than Earth, well within the star's habitable zone — the range of orbits in which liquid water could exist on its surface.

The Quantum Dynamics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), has recently made novel findings about electrons floating on the surface of liquid helium, a quantum system which may be a new candidate for quantum computing into reality.

Mineral deposits strewn across Mars indicate that liquid water persisted on the surface for at least a billion years longer than previously thought, NASA scientists reveal.

In 2002, NASA's Odyssey orbiter detected evidence of ice just beneath the surface of the Martian north pole, raising the possibility that during a warm spell liquid water could melt out — a likely requirement for life.

In the search for other Earths, the main goal is to find a planet the same size as ours that sits in the habitable zone — the region around a given star where planetary surface temperature would be similar to ours, allowing liquid water to exist.

Although some news reporters optimistically dubbed the planet «Goldilocks,» claiming it has just the right temperature for liquid water, this heavyweight is most likely a gaseous world lacking a solid surface on which water could collect.

Aizenberg is now working with the Wyss Advanced Technology Team to find the first applications for her invention, dubbed slippery - liquid - infused porous surfaces, or SLIPS.

The habitable zone is the belt around a star where temperatures are ideal for liquid water — an essential ingredient for life as we know it — to pool on a planet's surface.

The shape of the omniphobic toadstools makes it possible for even that weak surface tension to hold a droplet together, allowing liquids like pentane to form a sphere without collapsing, Cohen told New Scientist.

Without a sustained thick atmosphere of heat - trapping greenhouse gases, the planet would have been too cold to sustain liquid water on its surface for long periods of time, Mojzsis argues.

Four of these new planets are less than 2.5 times the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's habitable zone, defined as the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet may be suitable for life - giving liquid water.

It's difficult for the gas to escape from an undisturbed liquid because of the liquid's surface tension, which is the energy required to separate the liquid molecules from one another as a bubble forms.

This hydrophobic coating expels water molecules from the vicinity of the electrode surface and then, upon charging for the first time, decomposes and forms a stable interphase — a thin mixture of breakdown products that separates the solid anode from the liquid electrolyte.

This makes it theoretically possible for liquid water to exist on its surface - water being a key prerequisite for life on Earth.