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Researcher Uses 100,000 Degree Heat To Study Plasma, What Happens To Matter Around Black Holes
A researcher is studying ultra-high temperature and non-equilibrium plasmas to mimic what happens to matter in accretion disks around black holes. The work will enable astrophysicists to better understand what...
New Graphene-based, Nano-material Has Magnetic Properties
Researchers have designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create the next generation of electronic devices like microchips.
Scientists Cool Gas By Laser Bombardment
Three decades ago, American and Finnish scientists came up with a very powerful method for cooling gases by "laser bombardment." Now physicists in Germany have demonstrated that it actually works....
Bronze Sculptures Mix Chemistry And Art
Scientists and art curators use elemental analysis to study bronze sculptures, helping to establish art origins and casting techniques.
Laser Pulses Control Single Electrons In Complex Molecules
A German-Dutch team of physicists and chemists has achieved the control over single electrons in a multi-electron system with waveform shaped laser pulses.
Chemists Reach From The Molecular To The Real World With Creation Of 3-D DNA Crystals
Chemists have created 3-D DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live. The work also has a range of potential industrial and pharmaceutical applications,...
Nano Data Storage: Researchers Study Ordering Mechanism In Metallofullerenes
Interest is growing in the use of metallofullerenes – carbon “cages” with embedded metallic compounds – as materials for miniature data storage devices. Researchers have discovered that metallofullerenes are capable...
Functional MRI Forecasts Which Soldiers Might Be Vulnerable To Suicide
A researcher in Israel demonstrates that functional magnetic resonance imaging can be used to forecast which soldiers might be vulnerable to stress psychopathology.
What's Smelly But Can Fuel a Car?
Driving home from a seminar on fuel cell technology, Gerardine Botte was struck with a notion. Her idea was based on water electrolysis, a process used to produce hydrogen energy...
Panasonic Introduces New LUMIX DMC-GF1 Digital Camera
Panasonic today announced that it has introduced its newest addition to its LUMIX G Micro System line-up of advanced digital interchangeable lens system cameras based on the Micro Four Thirds...
Wireless sensor systems enable a better sleep
Today, at IEEE EMB Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), IMEC and its research affiliate Holst Centre present the clinical validation of a wireless sleep staging system.
A new avenue for MEMS-based sensor design
Mr Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan, a second year doctoral student in Engineering, is the recipient of the best student paper award in the sensors and transducers sub-field at the IEEE Frequency Control...
Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module
Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light to observe...
Recycling Wittig Waste
A cyclic catalyst precursor facilitates reuse of the by-product in an olefination reaction.
'NanoPen' may write new chapter in nanotechnology manufacturing
Researchers in California are reporting development of a so-called "NanoPen" that could provide a quick, convenient way of laying down patterns of nanoparticles - from wires to circuits ...
Bio-enabled, Surface-mediated Approach Produces Nanoparticle Composites
Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to form strong and flexible composite structures that have unusual optical and mechanical...
Breakthrough in bubble research at Bath
A researcher from the University of Bath has found a new approach to an old geometric problem of modelling the most efficient way of packing shapes to form a foam...
Swansea researchers to study safety of nanoparticles
Researchers at Swansea University's Centre for NanoHealth have been awarded GBP1 million by the Research Councils' Nanoscience through Engineering to Application cross-council programme, led by the Engineering and Physical Science...
Electron beam builds bespoke atomic lattices
Scanning electron microscope selectively removes rubidium atoms
TierneyLab: How Dr. Cook Scooped The Times
Now, just in time for the centennial anniversary, a historian has found the pieces of paper that started the great Cook-Peary polar controversy.
Hydrogen storage gets new hope
A new method for 'recycling' hydrogen-containing fuel materials could open the door to economically viable hydrogen-based vehicles...
N.B. might accept P.E.I. power exports
New Brunswick's transmission lines aren't closed entirely to new power exports from P.E.I., the Island's energy minister says.
'FEAsy' analyses designs from raw sketches to speed parts creation
Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy...
US researcher sees life through a lens
Last year we reported on the work of Babak Parviz, an electrical engineer at
Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Patterns of Collagen Measured in Soft Tissues
Coherent X-ray Diffraction patterns of collagen in soft tissues have been measured for the first time by Dr Felisa Berenguer at the London Centre for Nanotechnology with her colleagues.
Hitachi Unleashes Ultra-Fast Half-Terabyte Mobile Hard Disk Drive
Hitachi today announced that is it shipping its fifth-generation, 7200 RPM mobile hard disk drive. The Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 is a 500GB, 2.5-inch, 3Gb/s SATA drive designed for notebooks, gaming...
FYI: Is There a Scientific Way to Measure How Bad a Fart Smells?
You’re in luck. For their senior project, two Cornell University computer-engineering whizzes recently built a machine that does just that. After learning in class how breathalyzers work, Robert Clain and Miguel Salas assembled...
Physicists shed light on mysterious battlefield injury
Blast waves might cause damage to brain