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Better electrostatic cleaner created
STUTTGART, Germany, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- German engineers say they have developed a more efficient electrostatic surface cleaner to be used in industrial manufacturing processes.
For Safer Emergencies, Give Your Power Generator Some Space
Gasoline-powered, portable generators can be a lifeline during weather emergencies, but they emit poisonous carbon monoxide. New research shows that to prevent potentially dangerous levels of carbon monoxide, users may...
UA scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos
Chaotic behaviour is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics...
Researchers create smaller and more efficient nuclear battery
Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are...
Universe To End Sooner Than Previously Thought
While Robert Frost famously said that he prefers the world to end in fire, physicists have long predicted the universe will end with an icy sputter known as "heat death." Heat death...
Lasers, electric tools cause OR fires
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A recent study suggests lasers and other medical electrosurgical devices are the most likely causes of U.S. operating room fires.
Single molecule magnets with a twist
Single molecule magnets with magnetic properties that can be tuned have been made by UK scientists
Nerve Cells Live Double Lives
Scientists have identified a new neural circuit in the retina responsible for the detection of approaching objects. Surprisingly, however, this is not the only function the circuit fulfills. The same...
Atomic Wire with Protective Sheath: Stable Metal Nanowires One Atom Wide Inside Carbon Nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wires with atomic dimensions are potential structural elements for future nanoscopic electronic components. Such fine wires have completely new electronic properties. However, apart from the non-trivial production of...
New method reveals all you need to know about 'waveforms'
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has unveiled a method for calibrating entire waveforms -- graphical shapes showing how electrical signals vary over time -- rather than just parts...
Plasmonics: Surfing the wave
Small oscillations of surface electrons that manipulate light on the nanoscale could be the route to applications as disparate as faster computer chips and cures for cancer. Joerg Heber reports.
Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already...
Instant insight: Self-healing at the nanoscale
Vincenzo Amendola and Moreno Meneghetti take inspiration from nature to design materials that can repair themselves
New analysers to unlock mineral value
Scientists are working on a new range of materials characterisation analysers and techniques that could help unlock the value contained in Australia's mineral deposits and improve processing performance, according to...
Past Nobel Superstars
Since 1901, the world's most prestigious award has recognized a range of pioneers and luminaries, from Albert Einstein to Al Gore.Video
Electron Microscopes Powered by Quantum Mechanics Could See Through Living Cells
Electron microscopes are great and all, but the problem is that you can't use them to get up close and personal inside a living cell without killing it. That might change, however,...
UW's newly named 'Lamborghini Lab' brings composite parts to sports-car arena
A partnership between the University of Washington and the Italian sports-car company Automobili Lamborghini has been formalised, and the presidents of both organisations today attended the naming ceremony of the...
Energy saving day on Isles of Scilly comes up short
A 24-hour energy 'switch off' in the Isles of Scilly sees consumption fall by only 1.2% but organisers say they are pleased.
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to light pioneers
Advances in fibre optics and digital imaging are rewarded.
JoAnne Stubbe to receive top science honor today
President Barack Obama will present MIT biochemist JoAnne Stubbe with a National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony this afternoon. Stubbe is receiving the nation's highest science honor for her work in...
BUSM researchers identify better laser for treating facial spider veins
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have concluded that the 940 nm wavelength laser is superior for treating facial spider veins (telangiectasias) as compared to the 532 nm...
High-efficiency Low-cost Silicon Solar Cell Demonstrated
IMEC and BP Solar have demonstrated a 18% conversion efficiency for silicon solar cells made of BP Solar’s newly developed Mono2 silicon. By combining IMEC’s advanced processing techniques with BP...
Study: Perceptions might often kick a player when they are down
Just like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, kicking a football through goal posts can be an elusive task, according to Purdue University research.
New research brings 'invisible' into view (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside materials and structures in...
Driving on Glass? Inventor Hopes to Lay Down Solar Roads
A truck tire supporting a 36,300-kilogram load repeatedly traverses an 18-meter stretch of road, day in and day out, rolling up 483,000 kilometers on the odometer at the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DoT)...
New catalyst for propene oxidation
Gold clusters combine with titanium to enable green catalysis of propene oxidation – but yields remain low
Ultra-cold Systems Of Atoms: Pushing The Cold Frontier In An Orderly Fashion
Working toward ever lower temperatures is only part of the battle for physicists studying ultra-cold systems of atoms. A group of researchers has now found a way to deal with...
Breaking Down the Barrier for Smaller, Faster Electronic Devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of international researchers is the first to uncover the chemical composition and structure of a microelectronics element that is vital to producing ever smaller - and,...