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New optical sensors enabling lightning-fast trace gas detectors
A new generation of optical sensors is enabling the development of robust, long-lasting, lightning-fast trace gas detectors for use in a wide range of industrial, security and domestic applications.
Safe journey for works of art
After being exhibited in New York, the priceless oil paintings move on to a gallery in Paris and then to a museum in Berlin. To protect the works of art...
Team develops cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis
A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and...
UD scientists take theoretical research on 'nasty' molecule to next level
Some atoms don't always follow the rules. Take the beryllium dimer, a seemingly simple molecule made up of two atoms that University of Delaware physicists Krzysztof Szalewicz and Konrad Patkowski...
Video: Small Cars, Bigger Mileage
As car manufacturers roll out their newest models at the L.A. Auto Show, U.S. automakers have a chance to re-introduce themselves to car buyers looking for higher mileage for lower...
Questions Odd and Profound
Newton, electricity, Einstein, laughing gas. For 350 years, Britain’s Royal Society has tried to make sense of the world.
How to Get Best Car Loans?
How to Get Best Car Loans? When looking for a new car loan or a Used Car Financing, a very essential thing to think about is the car loans rates that are...
Bloomberg Drops Key Initiative to Cut Greenhouse Gases
After opposition from building owners, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has dropped the most far-reaching initiative of his plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
What to do now that the COBRA subsidy is ending
Will they or won't they extend the COBRA subsidy? That's the question as the nine-month benefit begins to expire.
LHC Gets First Results; Step Toward "God Particle"?
With its first data from a particle collision, the Large Hadron Collider has "taken off safely," one scientist says. But the trip isn't over yet—and higher-energy collisions could come before...
Chink found in armor of perfect cloak
Charged particles could reveal hidden objects’ location, new idea suggests
FTC expands Intel anti-competition probe, sources say
The Federal Trade Commission has broadened its investigation of Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker Intel beyond the company's competition with Advanced Micro Devices to include at least one other Silicon Valley...
Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution
You want to go for a run, but you don't want to run in polluted air that might aggravate your asthma. University of California, San Diego computer scientists are creating...
Stanford's Dostoevsky biographer concludes acclaimed series
Everything was silent in St. Petersburg's Semenovsky Square. On the cold December day in 1849, the snow fell softly on the soldiers, on the crowd and on the ragged prisoners...
Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of...
ORNL Receives Recovery Act Funding for Carbon Fiber Technology Center
A new, stimulus-funded research center at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help strengthen the very 'fiber' of America's automotive and energy industries.
Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency
(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays...
Easier ester synthesis
Oxygen-coated gold nanoparticles can selectively oxidise a variety of alcohols and aldehydes
Nature's fine designs: Scientists find modern lessons in ancient creations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nature and its bottom-up processes for creating robust and responsive materials are inspiring new generations of synthetic materials and creative design.
Bio-inspired catalyst design could rival platinum
New nickel-based catalyst shows impressive stability under fuel cell conditions
Understanding Mechanical Properties Of Silicon Nanowires Paves Way For Nanodevices
Silicon nanowires are attracting attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for smaller devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these devices, and an array of...
Big Bang machine achieves first particle collisions
ZURICH (Reuters) -- Scientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe...
Wizard at circuits, physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.
Cosmic Log: Hot, medium and cool fusion
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Is nuclear fusion the ultimate energy source, or the ultimate pipe dream? Get an update on the three main tracks in fusion research. ...
Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring how much - or how little - nanoscale interfaces love water.
First Passenger Flight Powered by Biofuel--But Are the Petroleum Alternatives Ready to Takeoff?
Dutch airline KLM has completed a fifth jet biofuel test flight--and the first with passengers other than flight crew. Using a 50–50 blend of regular jet fuel and biofuel refined...
Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and...
A window that washes itself?
A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature...