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...those denizens have made great strides in the field over the years, including Wallace C. Sabine, who pioneered the field of architectural acoustics, and Theodore Lyman, who discovered the Lyman series, which characterizes hydrogen electron transitions between different energy states...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: American Physical Society Honors Jefferson Lab | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...convinced that 20th century life was a frail shell of pretense over strong, dark, violent impulses. His prose had a lucid, often clinical air, but his characters were weird iconic figures lost in their obsessions over sex, drugs, media, massive disasters, car crashes, dead pop stars, hydrogen bombs and fatal medical experiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.G. Ballard | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...stormed their rented house in the village of Medebach-Oberschledorn, in the central region of Sauerland. At the time of the arrests, police say, the suspects were almost ready to strike and had turned their house into a bomb factory. The authorities found dozens of detonators and barrels of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in hair bleach which, when mixed with other materials, can be used to make explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four on Trial in German Terrorism Case | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...kilometers (15 miles) east of Frankfurt. Intelligence officials had been monitoring the group's cellphone conversations and email traffic with IJU leaders abroad. It was in February 2007 that preparations for the bombings began in earnest, prosecutors say. According to the authorities, the suspects collected 12 barrels of hydrogen peroxide, but in July 2007, the German authorities secretly swapped the 35% solution of hydrogen peroxide with a weaker mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four on Trial in German Terrorism Case | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

Most dietary interventions work by checking methogens - microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments like cows' guts, where they convert the available hydrogen and carbon (by-products of digestion) into methane, a colorless, odorless gas. "We encourage well-to-do farmers to use oilseed cakes, which provide unsaturated fatty acids that get rid of the hydrogen," Singhal says. Another solution is herbal additives. Some commonly used Indian herbs such as shikakai and reetha, which go into making soap, and many kinds of oilseeds contain saponins and tannins, substances that make for lathery, bitter meals but block hydrogen availability for methogens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cows with Gas: India's Global-Warming Problem | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

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