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Graphene better with gold 'nanostars'
MANHATTAN BEACH, Kan., Oct. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. chemical engineers say they have discovered graphene is more useful in electronics applications if a gold ion solution is used as...
Video Camera That Records At The Speed Of Thought
European researchers who created an ultra-fast, extremely high-resolution video camera have enabled dozens of medical applications, including one scenario that can record ‘thought’ processes traveling along neurons. The Megaframe project...
Hollow spheres made of metal
New drive technologies combined with lighter and stronger materials will make the airplanes and automobiles of the future more fuel-efficient. But a number of technical details need to be resolved...
Premium auto tech and cow dung point to new high tech disease diagnosis
Research at the University of Warwick have taken high tech gas sensors normally used to test components for premium cars and applied the same techniques to human blood, human urine,...
Improved redox flow batteries for electric cars
A new type of redox flow battery presents a huge advantage for electric cars. If the rechargeable batteries are low, the discharged electrolyte fluid can simply be exchanged at the...
Graphene sheets grow forming carbon domes
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- U.S., Italian and U.K. scientists analyzing graphene assembling on a surface of iridium say they found the sheets grow by first forming...
Researchers create molecular diode
Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is...
New Method Reveals All You Need To Know About 'Waveforms'
A new method enables calibrating entire waveforms -- graphical shapes showing how electrical signals vary over time -- rather than just parts of waveforms as is current practice. The new...
Building a Bridge of (and to) the Future
Carbon- and glass-fiber fabric tubes filled with concrete offer strength, light weight and resistance to corrosion.
Essay: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
One of the most bizarre theories in all of science suggests a negative outcome for the superconducting supercollider in Switzerland.
Reactive Dications Tamed
Main-Group Chemistry: Stabilizing positive charge with three nitrogen atoms yields stable group 16 complexes.
New! My Paper On Solving The Omega B Controversy
The web site of the Cornell preprint archive, arxiv.org, says it best: successful submissions to the preprint archive are a source of considerable pride (darn it, the page with the...
"Spider Pill" Camera Bots Could Crawl Your Colon
A tiny camera will be swallowed by patients and inspect their intestines People who dislike having medical cameras snake through their body on the ends of long tubing now have a fun...
Unexpected Hydrides Become Stable Metals at Pressure Near One Quarter Required to Metalize Pure Hydrogen Alone
(PhysOrg.com) -- From detailed assessments of electronic structure, researchers at the University at Buffalo, Cornell University, Stony Brook University and Moscow State University discovered that unexpected hydrides violating standard valence...
Research in a Vacuum: DARPA Tries to Tap Elusive Casmir Effect for Breakthrough Technology
Named for a Dutch physicist, the Casimir effect governs interactions of matter with the energy that is present in a vacuum. Success in harnessing this force could someday help researchers develop low-friction ballistics...
'X-Ray Glasses' Can See Through Walls But Only Use Radio Waves
University of Utah engineers have shown off a wireless network of radio transmitters that can track people moving behind solid walls, which may help police grab intruders or rescue hostages...
Sticky Collisions And Atomic Bombs
It is easy to marvel at Einstein's relativity theory. It is less easy to really understand relativity. At least so it seems. Understanding relativity requires abilities in predicting with confidence...
Yellow Diesel - Biofuel From Rapeseed Without The Waste
A company called Yellow Diesel B.V. says they have succeeded in producing biodiesel in a continuous fixed-bed micro plant based on heterogeneous catalysis, which provides pure biodiesel plus a cosmetics/food...
Israel Gelfand dies at 96; Russian mathematician
His research laid the mathematical foundation for the imaging abilities of MRI and CT scanners. Israel Gelfand, the Russian mathematician whose research laid the mathematical framework for the imaging abilities of MRI and...
Building A Better Qubit: Combining Six Photons Avoids Quantum Data Scrambling
The qubits that carry quantum information are typically fragile, but a new method of combing six photons leads to robust qubits that are immune to many of the effects that...
More Powerful Internet Access On Airplanes And Trains
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated 60 GHz broadband radio for wireless transmission of HD video data, HDTV, live. The findings mean more robust transmissions that are less susceptible...
Novelties: A New Way to Inhale, Not Inject, Insulin
A small inhaler and insulin powder created by the MannKind Corporation are before the F.D.A. for marketing approval.
Hyper-SAGE boosts remote MRI sensitivity
A new technique in Magnetic Resonance Imaging dubbed 'Hyper-SAGE' has the potential to detect ultra low concentrations of clinical targets, such as lung and other cancers. Development of Hyper-SAGE was...
Guest Post: Carl Brannen, "Position, Spin, And The Particle Generations"
Carl Brannen is well known to the regulars of this blog. He is an independent researcher and my favourite non-professional theorist, because he gives me the hope that brilliant minds,...
The Speed Of Computing
A recent LiveScience article 'Computers Faster Only for 75 More Years' has indicated that new research conducted by two physicists have placed a speed limit on what's attainable regardless of...
In Brief: Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group (Argonne National Laboratory) and at Politecnico di Milano in Italy explored the limits of antiferromagnetism in a nanostructured...
Houston to test lightning detection system
HOUSTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Houston's steamy climate is perfect to test a lightning detection system that ultimately could save lives worldwide, a researcher says.
Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by physicists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have resolved a decade-long puzzle that is set to have...