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Two circulating beams bring first collisions in Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider -- the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time on Nov. 23, allowing the operators to test the synchronization...
MIT: Better way to harness waste heat
New MIT research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer processor chips to car...
Novel NIST connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices
Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of...
Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging
Scientists have discovered a method of using nanoparticles to illuminate the cellular interior to reveal the slow, complex processes taking place in a living cell.
Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants
Lehigh University's Energy Research Center (ERC) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop methods of recovering and reusing the heat that would be...
Ultrathin, Now Ultraflat: Ripple-Free Graphene May Hold Key to Material's Mysteries
Graphene has been a hot topic in physics and materials science since its discovery five years ago . The sheets of carbon, just an atom thick, have...
Scientists hold their breath as they prepare to fire up the LHC
If all goes to plan, beams of particles will begin whizzing around the LHC on Friday evening for the first time since last year's explosionA giant scientific instrument that was designed to recreate...
Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects
With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to...
New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene
First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule...
US physics lab ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough
Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break...
Major Advance In Organic Solar Cells
Scientists have announced a major advance in the synthesis of organic polymers for plastic solar cells. Gains in speed, quality and current over conventional production techniques hold promise for both...
A New World of Fiber Sensors
Optical fiber is well-known for its ability to carry information at high speeds over long distances. Twenty years after the first transatlantic fiber optic cable was laid, these strands of...
Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability...
Spotting evidence of directed percolation
Convincing experimental evidence has finally been found for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population or how water soaks...
Liquid Cooling Bags For Data Centers Could Trim Cost and Carbon By 90 Percent
Server farms are undeniably awesome in that they store huge pools of data, enable such modern phenomena as cloud computing and Web-hosted email, and most importantly, make the Internet as it stands today...
Engineering Researcher Part of Team That Discovers How to Capture Tumor Cells in Bloodstream
Jin-Woo Kim, a biomedical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas, is part of a cutting-edge nanotechnology research group that has discovered a way to capture tumor cells in the...
IBM creates fast, portable diagnostic test
ZURICH, Switzerland, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- IBM scientists say they have created a rapid, portable one-step test that can quickly diagnose many diseases.
Eco-Friendly SUV Gets a Hydrogen Mileage Boost (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Driving hydrogen fueled SUVs for 431 miles per fill-up is no longer a California dream. Researchers from NREL and Toyota recently completed a 331 mile round trip...
Holes block light in very thin films
Another strange twist found in the physics of holey materials
More efficient drug crystals created
LEEDS, England, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- British scientists say they have developed a simple technology that can be used in existing chemical reactors to ensure more efficient drug crystal...
P.E.I. says no to wind turbine firm
A bankrupt wind energy company's latest attempt to get funding from P.E.I. taxpayers has been turned down.
E-Transportation Jump-Start: Coalition Seeks to Pave the Way for Electric Vehicles
Although the widespread adoption of electric vehicles and their related infrastructure has always suffered from chicken-and-egg syndrome , Nissan and FedEx, along with several utilities and technology companies have...
FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.
Alternative fuel 'can power 15% of flights by 2020'
Alternative fuels could power 15 percent of global air traffic by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030, European aircraft-maker Airbus said at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.
No Surprise: Coed Dorms Fuel Sex and Drinking
Coed dorms fuel very unhealthy behavior that might otherwise be moderated.
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Feature: Monsters of the deep
What causes rogue waves remains a mystery, but some ANU physicists think the answer may lie in studying beams of light.
Response: The European emissions trading scheme is now a success
It was not the market that failed, but the policies that governed how it workedYour article is profoundly disheartening (Carbon trading is useless, says Friends of the Earth report, 5 November). Instead of...