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New camera makes seeing the 'invisible' possible
The science similar to the type used in airport body scanners could soon be used to detect everything from defects in aerospace vehicles or concrete bridges to skin cancer, thanks...
Multi-faceted method can benefit study of materials from batteries to classic art
What do lithium ion batteries and 2500-year-old Greek pottery have in common? One answer is surfaces. And surfaces are where chemistry happens.
Ultracold atoms simulate spin-orbit coupling
Physicists probe interaction that could improve quantum simulators
New Magnet-Powered Monitor Installed In Nuke Waste Sites Could Survive 100 Years
A Nuclear Waste Container Bill Ebbesen via wikimedia Today in cleverly designed solutions to old problems: University of Bristol engineers have devised a "hundred-year battery" that could report the state of buried nuclear...
NIST expert software 'lowers the stress' on materials problems
Before you can build that improved turbojet engine, before you can create that longer-lasting battery, you have to ensure all the newfangled materials in it will behave the way you...
Sask. spending $30M on nuclear research centre
The Saskatchewan government will spend $30 million to create a new nuclear research centre at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could soon provide an...
Combined molecular study techniques reveal more about DNA proteins
Illinois researchers have combined two molecular imaging technologies to create an instrument with incredible sensitivity that provides new, detailed insight into dynamic molecular processes...
Penn physicists develop scalable method for making graphene
New research from the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates a more consistent and cost-effective method for making graphene, the atomic-scale material that has promising applications in a variety of fields, and...
From the archive, 3 March 1969: Concorde takes to the air
Originally published in the Guardian on 3 March 1969TOULOUSE, MARCH 2When Concorde at last reared up for take-off like some monstrous swan, the seething jealousy and public argument in which this project has...
Abundant ammonia aids life's origins
An important discovery has been made with respect to the possible inventory of molecules available to the early Earth. Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State...
Classic VW microbus gets a modern makeover
Updated hippie favorite of the 60s -- the "Bulli" -- premieres at Geneva Auto Show, complete with electric motor and iPad
'Frozen Smoke' Could Boost Robotic Surgery, Batteries
The super-light form of carbon is pressure-sensitive, has a lot of surface area and conducts electricity.
New Equipment to Maintain Roadside Grass Could Provide Savings and Safety
Maintaining a yard of grass can require repeated mowing and application of herbicides. When your "yard" is miles and miles of roadsides throughout a state, that effort and expense become...
Tiny cube may replace cellphone towers
MURRAY HILL, N.J., March 2 (UPI) -- Researchers say unsightly, sky-high, cellphone towers dotting the U.S. landscape may someday be replaced by something no bigger than a Rubik's cube.
Switching qubits with a terahertz source?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rotational transitions induced in molecules on a chip could have important applications in quantum computing.
Hair dyeing poised for first major transformation in 150 years
Technological progress may be fast-paced in many fields, but one mundane area has been almost left in the doldrums for the last 150 years: The basic technology for permanently coloring...
Elusive Clouded Leopard Captured on Film—a First
A camera trap has caught one of the world's most elusive cats on film for the first time, conservationsts say.
David Cockayne obituary
Scientist who played a key role in the field of electron microscopyIn the late 1950s and 60s, pioneering advances were made in the study of the interior structures of crystals by passing high-energy...
Exhibit Observes 100th Anniversary of Factory Fire
A new exhibit presented by Mount Holyoke Archives and Special Collections honors Frances Perkins (class of 1902) and observes the 100th anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that...
Dot Earth: Alex Steffen, a Designing Optimist
Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out a blueprint for a successful century.
Who Is Numerically The Best Tennis Player Of All Time?
Comparing athletes across generations is always difficult - in football, for example, players are bigger and stronger but before the hashmark changes of the early 1970s, when the field truly...
Cements that self-repair cracks and store latent heat energy?
Cement (and derivatives thereof) is one of the materials most commonly used in construction, given its good performance at low cost. Over recent years, one part of scientific and technological...
Natural products go with the flow
A software application can enable accurate and automated control in multi-step flow processing
Oil supplies OK, says IEA
PARIS, March 2 (UPI) -- There is ample crude on the market until at least the end of March despite disruptions in Libyan production, the IEA said Wednesday from...
Give postdocs a career, not empty promises
To avoid throwing talent on the scrap heap and to boost prospects, a new type of scientific post for researchers is needed, says Jennifer Rohn.
Still No Schrödinger Cat Jumps The Diosi-Penrose Criterion
Every once in a while we are told that they finally have the proof for Schrödinger’s cat being possible and the quantum multiverse being thus proven. Recently, yet another incarnation...
Frontier Physics
At the energy frontier, there are prospectors and surveyors. And of course absolutely no cowboys.Shamefacedly I return, in the wake of Lily's highly praised and commented favourite particle article and her musical interlude....