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Liquid Lens Creates Tiny Flexible Laser On A Chip
Like tiny Jedi knights, tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and direct light at will to count cells, evaluate molecules or create on-chip optical tweezers, according to engineers. They may...
Grilling With Charcoal Less Climate-friendly Than Grilling With Propane, Study Finds
Do biofuels always create smaller carbon footprints than their fossil-fuel competitors? Not necessarily, finds a new study.
New IC quality control technique created
GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created a technique that uses long-wave terahertz waves to efficiently measure structural properties used in integrated circuits.
A feasible, simple and convenient model for study of rectal carcinoma
The method of building a rabbit rectal VX2 carcinoma model by injecting the cell suspension of VX2 cells into the wall of the rectum guided by X-ray fluoroscopy is feasible....
Winnipeg researcher charged with smuggling biological material into U.S.
A researcher at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle unidentified biological material into the United States.
Has Einstein failed physics?
The GBP3.6bn Large Hadron Collider is one of world's most advanced scientific experiments, built to smash protons together at huge speeds, recreating conditions moments after the Big Bang. Unfortunately it...
Chemists Discover Rare Rydberg Molecule With 'New' Type Of Bonding
A rare "Rydberg" molecule upheld the scientific theory predicting the molecule existed. Chemists used a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to a temperature of 3 millionths of a degree above...
Why Silkworms Find Mulberries Attractive
Biologists have found the source of silkworms' attraction to mulberry leaves, their primary food source. A jasmine-scented chemical emitted in small quantities by the leaves triggers a single, highly tuned...
Biomass as a source of raw materials
For the protection of the environment, and because of the limited amount of fossil fuels available, renewable resources, such as specially cultivated plants, wood scraps, and other plant waste, are...
FOR KIDS: Seeing red means danger ahead
A tiny molecule may make a big difference in future warning systems
The Science of a Really Bad Day
Being a know-it-all is usually a bad thing—unless, that is, you really know your sh*t. In the case of Peter J. Bentley, PhD, and the author of The Science of...
Chemist's discovery of new salt jumpstarts extended-life battery research for electric vehicles
A University of Rhode Island chemistry professor's discovery of a new salt has been received with enthusiasm by companies seeking to develop an advanced lithium ion battery for use in...
Finances can shape kids' intentions about college
(PhysOrg.com) -- If college seems too expensive, what is the point of doing homework?
NMR on a microscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- The technique well known from its use in MRI scanning - actually based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) - can now also be applied to extremely small samples...
Color-shifting cuttlefish inspire TV screens
Scientists are developing cuttlefish-inspired electronic ink and screens that use less than one-hundredth the power of traditional television screens.
Electricity more efficient than ethanol as energy pathway from biomass
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electricity or ethanol, which is the better use of our nation's biomass crops when it comes to powering vehicles? Our government seems to have chosen ethanol, recently...
Ion trap quantum computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- `Right now, classical computers are faster than quantum computers,` René Stock tells PhysOrg.com. `The goal of quantum computing is to eventually speed up the time scale of solving...
Compact cancer-therapy particle-delivery system patented
As part of an effort to make high-precision particle cancer therapy accessible to more patients, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed a...
Quantum Mechanics: Uncertainty Principle Used To Detect Entanglement Of Photon Shared Among Four Locations
Scientists have developed an efficient method to detect entanglement shared among multiple parts of an optical system. They show how entanglement, in the form of beams of light simultaneously propagating...
Northeastern Physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Receives Cozzarelli Prize
Northeastern physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi has been awarded the Cozzarelli prize by the National Academy of Sciences for authoring one of the most outstanding scientific papers of 2008. The editorial board...
Concentration Solar Power Module Integrates Into Side And Roof Of Buildings
A new concentration solar power module that produces heat, cold and electricity can be integrated to façades or building roofs.
Ultra-dense Deuterium May Be Nuclear Fuel Of The Future
A material that is a hundred thousand times heavier than water and more dense than the core of the Sun is being produced at a university. The scientists working with...
Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics
A push in forensic science for the kind of rigorous, peer-reviewed research that is the hallmark of classic science.
Ottawa invention aims to quiet helicopters, wind turbines
A Carleton University graduate student is trying to launch a business based on a device that could make wind turbines quiet enough to install closer to people's homes and make...
Lightweight electric motor on track
A lightweight electric motor designed by Oxford University engineers is to power a new four-seat coupé, with track tests scheduled for the end of 2009.
Powerful Ideas: Fusing Atoms Just Might Work
Nuclear fusion facilities are trying to fuse nuclei using lasers and magnets.
Chemical Firms Shutter Production
Producers blame weak polymer demand for Texas plant closings
Physicists make smallest incandescent lamp
LOS ANGELES, May 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have created the world's smallest incandescent lamp to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.