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Spin Control: New Technique Sorts Nanotubes By Length
Researchers have reported a new technique to sort batches of carbon nanotubes by length using high-speed centrifuges. The technique should be easy to scale to industrial quantities for a variety...
Improved Ion Mobility Is Key To New Hydrogen Storage Compound
A materials scientist has deciphered the structure of a new class of materials that can store relatively large quantities of hydrogen. The new analysis may point to a practical hydrogen...
Climbing easy as walking for some primates
DURHAM, N.C., May 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. study shows climbing is as easy as walking for smaller primates, who expend no more energy for either activity.
MIT creates new material for fuel cells
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 19 (UPI) -- U.S. engineers say they have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent by creating...
Bacteria-resistant Films Created: Microbe Adhesion Depends On Surface Stiffness
Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, MIT engineers have created ultrathin films made of polymers that could be applied to...
Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity In Piezoelectric Materials
A research team has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure or voltage of a special class of solid materials called relaxors. The ability to control and...
EchoStar to showcase first product for cable
(AP) -- Former satellite TV provider EchoStar Corp. on Sunday will demonstrate its first product for cable companies at the industry's trade show: a unit that can tune in...
IBM claims solar power breakthrough
ARMONK, N.Y., May 16 (UPI) -- The IBM Corp. reports a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that the company says might significantly reduce the cost of solar power.
Student Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic Sensors
Paul Morrow, who will graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 17, has come a long way from his days as an elementary school student, pulling apart his mother's cassette...
Nanotechnology In Reverse Uses Red Blood Cell To Calibrate Atomic Force Microscope
Nanotechnology researchers have shown that they can use a red blood cell to calibrate a sensitive instrument, an atomic force microscope. An atomic force microscope uses a tiny lever that...
U of Saskatchewan distinguished researcher finds an SOS response to cancer-causing agents
Saskatoon, SK: University of Saskatchewan microbiologist Wei Xiao has found a way to trigger a protein combination called 9-1-1 that sends an SOS signal for cells to fight cancer-causing agents...
The Commercials Commerce
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Sharp Achieves the World`s Highest Power Density for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
Sharp Corp. has achieved the world's highest power density, 0.3W/cc, for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) for mobile equipment. This new technology enables efficient power generation from a small cell...
Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise
Some day, fuel cells may power your car and exhaust only water and perhaps carbon dioxide. More efficient and cleaner than an internal combustion engine, their emissions will be much...
Study Explores Physics of Wrinkling, Folding
Scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Santiago in Chile have explained, for the first time, the physics that governs how thin materials at scales millions of...
Argonne-SRNL Agreement Supports Critical DOE, National Priorities
Argonne National Laboratory has signed a memorandum of understanding with Savannah River National Laboratory (to collaborate on nuclear energy and environmental management research projects in support of critical U.S. Energy...
Video: On a wing and a dare
Swiss 'Fusion Man' is the first person to successfully fly with a rocket-propelled wing after leaping from plane
Self-Sustaining Solitary Light Wave Packets Could Inspire New Generation Of Computer Networks
European researchers say their study of self-sustaining solitary light wave packets could result in a new generation of computers and optical telecommunications networks. Using light rather than electronic or magnetic...
Opinion: Clean coal, dirty business?
Is it possible that coal corporations know that carbon capture and storage is not viable, but continue to promote it to maintain share prices, questions Tony Troughton-Smith?
'Giant microscope' that peers into the heart of a structure
Isis is helping scientists understand everything from oil pipe blockages to the lungs of newborns
Undergraduates develop 'dirt-powered' microbial fuel cells to light Africa
A team composed of Harvard students and alumni was among the winners of the World Bank’s Lighting Africa 2008 Development Marketplace competition, held in Accra, Ghana from May 6 to...
Researcher Creates 'Smart' Bandages to Test Cholesterol, Blood without Needles
A Mississippi State University electrical engineering researcher had developed "smart" bandages, able to gauge cholesterol, insulin and blood chemistry without needles. The technology could also triple life charges of cell...
Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
(AP) -- In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across...
Slowing light to speed data: USC Viterbi School wins $4.3M photonics IT contract
Two prize-winning USC specialists hope to break a bottleneck that has long limited communication systems from using light - photons - instead of electronics for data information processing.
Car navigator remotely manages Web-enabled home
(AP) -- Drivers in Japan can check on their pets, turn lights and air conditioning on and off and lock their front doors - all from inside their cars...
Britain's Alien Files
At 4 PM on April 19, 1984, a team of air traffic controllers at an airport in the east of England reportedly watched a strange, bright, circular vehicle touch down,...
A Smarter Way to Grow Graphene
Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, has many potential uses in the electronics industry, but producing these ideal two-dimensional carbon sheets is very difficult and, as a...
Innovative antennae may signal a 'new wave' in health care provision
Compact, wireless and power efficient body sensors that allow doctors to monitor illnesses and injuries remotely are a step closer thanks to new research.