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Scientists create precision laser system
BOULDER, Colo., May 27 (UPI) -- U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology scientists say they've created a laser ranging system that can pinpoint objects with nanometer precision.
Advance In Solving Mysterious Machine-workers' Disease
Scientists are reporting a long-awaited advance toward making the workplace safer for more than one million machinists in the United States who may be exposed to disease-causing bacteria in contaminated...
Long-sought Way To Make 'Nano-raspberries' May Fight Foggy Windows And Eyeglasses
In an advance toward preventing car windshields and eyeglasses from fogging up, researchers in China are reporting development of a new way to make raspberry-shaped nanoparticles that can give glass...
Multiferroics: Making A Switch The Electric Way
Researchers have demonstrated that electric fields can be used as ON/OFF switches in multiferroic materials, a development that holds promise for future magnetic data storage and spintronic devices.
Too much entanglement can render quantum computers useless
(PhysOrg.com) -- "For certain tasks, quantum computers are more powerful than their classical counterparts. The task to be performed is the same for quantum or classical systems. However, the former...
Cheney vs. Obama: Dueling Unprovable Claims
Both argue about the nation's safety. Their claims aren't provable, however.
Lasers Could Find Friend or Foe Submarines Underwater
Navy researchers hope to use lasers for sonar detection or communicating with underwater submarines.
Ballard Power pulling plug on Japanese joint venture
Ballard Power Systems said Monday it plans to discontinue the operations of EBARA Ballard Corp., a Japanese joint venture.
Colorful columns: Simple method for the production of microcylinders with multiple compartments
(PhysOrg.com) -- Under a microscope they look like tiny pie charts or colorful candy canes: A team led by Joerg Lahann at the University of Michigan has been able to...
Stronger material for filling dental cavities has ingredients from human body
Scientists in Canada and China are reporting development of a new dental filling material that substitutes natural ingredients from the human body for controversial ingredients in existing 'composite,' or plastic,...
Study says businesses can create clean energy jobs
(AP) -- The organizers of a global business summit on climate change say millions of new jobs would be created in the U.S. alone by relying almost entirely on...
Herbert York, 87, Top Nuclear Physicist Who Was Arms Control Advocate, Dies
Mr. York was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb and later became a leading advocate of arms control and nuclear test bans.
Hydrogen Powered Municipal Vehicle Being Tested In Everyday Use
Scientists have developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle. The vehicle is named the "Bucher CityCat H2" and is the first municipal utility vehicle in the world powered by...
New Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Seal Could Help Bring Efficient Energy Technology To Market
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have great potential for stationary and mobile applications. Stationary use ranges from residential applications to power plants. Mobile applications include power for ships at sea...
Feature: Build it up, tear it down
Researchers are creating molecules that can delay osteoporosis, by slowing the body's breakdown of bone.
Watching superfluid vortices as they form
A paper published today in Nature Physics and co-authored by Maciej Lewenstein, ICREA professor at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain) describes for the first time the quantum state that...
How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?
Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide byproduct from the production of...
Synthetic Catalyst Mimics Nature's 'Hydrogen Economy'
By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor.
Kuwait: Swine flu cases detected among US soldiers
(AP) -- Several swine flu cases have been detected among U.S. soldiers passing through Kuwait, officials said Saturday.
Robert Furchgott, Nobelist for Work on a Gas, Dies at 92
Dr. Furchgott was pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide opened new vistas of research in cardiovascular functions and helped lead to the development of Viagra, the anti-impotency drug.
Fundamental Mechanism For Cell Organization Discovered
Scientists have discovered that cells use a very simple phase transition -- similar to water vapor condensing into dew -- to assemble and localize subcellular structures that are involved in...
Coming around to backbends
It's important to create an even arch along the entire spine when you do backbends, a variety of which are typical in yoga routines. ...
Dark Energy - Different Types?
It seems to me that discussions of dark energy center on addressing it as some sort of a monolithic entity. I was wondering if there have been any discussions or...
Israeli researchers discover new forms of explosive favoured by terrorists
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered never-before-seen polymorphic crystalline structures of triacetone-triperoxide (TATP), the easy-to-make but difficult to detect explosive increasingly used by terrorists worldwide. The findings,...
Engineering Carbon for Impressive Hydrogen Storage
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Missouri researchers recently showed how carbon nanostructures can be engineered to become excellent media for hydrogen storage, work that may be important for the advancement of...
Will the Nuclear Power "Renaissance" Ever Reach Critical Mass?
This month, Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor was supposed to begin generating power, a tangible sign of the revival of the nuclear industry outside of Asia after nearly 30 years...
New SOFC Seal Could Help Bring Efficient Energy Technology to Market
Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have great potential for stationary and mobile applications. But SOFCs have had a flaw - the integrity of the seals within and between power-producing units....
Beryllium-beryllium bond illuminated
Scientists study a partnership that chemical theory says shouldn’t exist