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Many cyclists safer than few
Researchers have found that cyclists are less likely to collide with a car when there are more cyclists around – motorists seem to adapt to deal with the bike traffic.
New Technique Allows Certain Objects To Be Invisible To Human Eye
Researchers in Spain have taken a step forward to realize a dream of science fiction writers and film makers: invisibility. By means of a numerical technique known as Transmission Line...
Hotline To The Cowshed
A wireless measuring system, consisting of sensors and transmission units, helps to keep livestock healthier with a minimum use of resources.
Quantum Insights Could Lead To Better Detectors
A bizarre but well-established aspect of quantum physics could open up a new era of electronic detectors and imaging systems that would be far more efficient than any now in...
Better Health Through Your Cell Phone
Researchers have advanced a novel lens-free imaging technique on the path to use in medical diagnostic applications that promise to improve global health related disease monitoring, such as malaria and...
Nanoscale Silver: No Silver Lining?
Widespread use of nanoscale silver will challenge regulatory agencies to balance important potential benefits against the possibility of significant environmental risk, highlighting the need to identify research priorities concerning this...
Superconductivity Can Induce Magnetism
When an electrical current passes through a wire it emanates heat -- a principle that's found in toasters and incandescent light bulbs. Some materials, at low temperatures, violate this law...
Future Nanoelectronics May Face Obstacles
Combining ordinary electronics with light has been a potential way to create minimal computer circuits with super fast information transfer. Researchers are now showing that there is a limit. When...
Extremely exact images from inside the body
It will be the only magnetic resonance tomograph of the modern 7 tesla generation in the world, in which a metrology institute is also involved. Magnetic resonance tomographs, which use...
Circuit behind the Internet Age turns 50 years old
The computer chip industry on Friday celebrated the 50th birthday of the integrated circuit, a breakthrough that set the stage for the Internet and the Digital Age. A half-century ago...
Letters: Science going round in circles from Stonehenge to Cern
Letters: In the late 1940s, Werner Heisenberg (author of the uncertainty principle) came to Bristol and gave a lecture on particle physics
Faux Superconductors Pass a Key Milestone
Simulations rendered in laser light and cold atoms could someday crack mystery of high-temperature superconductivity
Physicists hope to tie light beams in knots
Usually, light beams shine in a straight line, with the possible exception of light being bent by gravity. But scientists are now investigating how to make light beams into looped...
Moving Quarks Help Solve Proton Spin Puzzle
New theory work at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the proton is the result of...
Innovative Hydrogen-powered Car Created
As the price of gasoline fuel soars, and concerns grow about the impact of car culture on the environment, a team of scientists have come up with a hydrogen-powered car,...
MDGs require an innovation-based approach
A commitment to development-oriented innovation should be high on the agenda at the upcoming MDG summit in New York.
Professor Michael Reiss on teaching science to creationists
Revd.Professor Michael Reiss of the Royal Society wants creationism to be taught and explained in science lessons
Wind power speed record bid fails
A team hoping to break the world land-speed record for a wind-powered vehicle blames global warming for its failure.
Oded Schramm, 46, Mathematician, Is Dead
Dr. Schramm melded ideas from two branches of mathematics into an equation that applies to a multitude of physics problems.
Scientists build world's most powerful magnet
Using the strongest materials known to man, scientists are building the most powerful electromagnet in the world — one that won't blow up a split second after it's turned on.
A snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures
Researchers have achieved a milestone in materials science and electron microscopy by taking a high-resolution snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures.
Seeing Through The Skin: Optic-less Imaging Technology Could Beat Lens-based Imaging Devices
Feeling blue? According one researcher, humans may have an ability to “see” colors and shapes with their skin. His optic-less imaging model could lead to a new form of optical...
Using 'slow light' to modulate single photon wavepackets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Single photons have been studied for a long time, Steve Harris tells PhysOrg.com. “But this is the first time that their wavepackets have been modulated.” Just as...
The viability of hydrogen transportation markets: Chicken or egg?
Hydrogen may well be the new gasoline. But where's the nearest "gas" station where you can pull up and refuel your energy-efficient vehicle? Will hydrogen stations be strategically convenient—located on...
Living Sensor Can Warn Of Arsenic Pollution
Scientists studying arsenic pollution have discovered a living sensor that can spot contamination. They have also discovered new bacteria that can clean up arsenic spills even in previously untreatable cold...
New method for manufacturing radio isotopes
Thanks to a newly-developed technology at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past. This...
Cleaning Requirements for Heat Treatment Event Aids Companies and the Environment
During a special regional program on Cleaning Requirements for Heat Treatment: Developments and Applications, the ASM Heat Treating Society will cover the latest in cleaning requirements, technologies and evaluation methods...
Quiz: Fictional mad scientists
Test your knowledge of literature's mad scientists, as the world's biggest particle collider is started up in Geneva by a group of undoubtedly very sane physicists