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Catalytic catamarans: Common industrial catalyst sports rafts made of platinum
Catalysts convert useless or unwanted chemicals into useful or more desirable ones. Research in this week's Science reveals new, important details about a common catalyst: how rafts of chemically reactive...
Retinal Microchip Puts Images Directly Into Brain, No Eye Needed
Blindness is the most debilitating of sensory impairments, and also the most vexing to cure. Now, MIT scientists have created a new kind of retinal implant that might help reverse the effects...
A Splash Of Graphene Improves Battery Materials
Researchers have found that graphene, sheets of carbon one atom thick, improves the performance of titanium dioxide as a lithium battery electrode.
Therapeutic Nanoparticles Give New Meaning To Sugar-coating Medicine
A research team studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has uncovered a delicate balancing act that makes the particles more effective than conventional thinking says they...
Single molecules encased in microdroplets
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology scientists say they have invented a new tool for creating chemical reactions between single molecules.
NIST creates a calibration nano-ruler
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology says it has created a nano-ruler, designed to be the most accurate X-ray diffraction calibration standard.
IBM Links SatNav to Car Radios
(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM has filed a patent that could put an end to losing your favorite radio channels while you are driving long distances. Their idea is to combine satellite...
Is the LHC worth its massive price tag?
Scientists at Cern near Geneva are close to turning on their particle accelerator a year after it blew up. In their latest video, physicists hunting the Higgs boson ask what price society...
New findings could help hybrid, electric cars keep their cool
Understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny 'microchannels' has led to formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft,...
Diamonds may be the ultimate MRI probe
Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl's best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently found...
A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor
Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between...
New multi-use device can shed light on oxygen intake
A fiber-optic sensor created by a team of Purdue University researchers that is capable of measuring oxygen intake rates could have broad applications ranging from plant root development to assessing...
New beryllium reference material for occupational safety monitoring
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a new reference material for beryllium. Beryllium, an exotic...
Medical imaging's growth leaves standards in the dust, critics say
Medical imaging is such a growth industry that even the owner of the Dallas Cowboys has gone into the business. At Blue Star Imaging in Irving, Texas, Cowboys jerseys hang...
Video: The 100% Electric Motorcycle
Motorcycle company Brammo Enertia has created one of the first bikes which runs fully from electric power. WBBM's Angie Hunt reports from Ames, Iowa, where one resident has tested...
Intel Atom Processor Developer Program for Mobile Devices to Spur New Wave of Applications
To encourage the creation of innovative applications for Intel Atom processor-based products, Intel Corporation today launched the Intel Atom Developer Program for independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers.
Changing charges make for squid rainbow
Study finds how proteins self assemble to reflect different wavelengths of light
Research chief steps down over fake data
Peter Chen's integrity 'undamaged' by incident, says boss.
Moore's Law Marches on at Intel
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory...
Computation helps predict heat transfer in diamond
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researcher Derek Stewart and collaborators have calculated the exact mechanism by which diamond conducts heat, a breakthrough that could lend insight into many fields, including electronics.
French, US firms ally for electric car batteries
French industrial group Dassault and US joint venture Dow Kokam on Tuesday announced a preliminary agreement on a partnership to create batteries for electric and hybrid cars.
Why It's So Hard to Make Nuclear Weapons
Developing nuclear weapons are a challenge for many countries, but some experts think it's only a matter of time.
Large Area Solar Cells With 18.4% Conversion Efficiency, Featuring Cu-plated Contacts
Researchers in Europe are presenting a large-area solar with a conversion efficiency of 18.4%. Compared to the standard i-PERC cell process, the new solar cell features a shallow emitter and...
Could a paper transistor offer an alternative to silicon?
(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology advances, scientists look for ways to enhance electronic applications and devices. Indeed, electronics are getting smaller and more diverse. And as this happens, there is an...
Magnetic moments of 33Mg in the time-odd relativistic mean field approach
Nuclear magnetic moment is one of the most important physical observables. The precise measurement of nuclear magnetic moment and its understanding in microscopic way are quite a challenge in nuclear...
First efficient diamond laser is created
SYDNEY, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Australian researchers say they have demonstrated the first laser built with diamonds that has comparable efficiency to lasers built with other materials.
Huybers and Mahadevan named MacArthur Foundation Fellows
Two Harvard faculty members who study present and past ice sheets and the science behind familiar objects and everyday events have been named recipients of prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants.read more
Rolls-Royce Revs Ups Fuel Cell Research
Luxury Car Maker Announces Plans To $3 Million To Develop Equipment For Electricity-Generating Cells