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Red-Hot Research Could Lead To New Materials
Recent experiments to create a fast-reacting explosive by concocting it at the nanoscopic level could result in more spectacular firework displays. But more impressive to the researchers, the method used...
Students to provide Kenyan medical clinic with electric power
An engineering student design team at Virginia Tech is creating a photovoltaic system to provide a medical clinic in Kenya with a desperately needed source of power...
Renewable Energies: The Promise Of Organic Solar Cells
In the race to renewable energy, organic solar cells are now really starting to take off. They can be manufactured easily and cheaply, they have low environmental impact, and since...
World's First Nanofluidic Device With Complex 3-D Surfaces
Researchers have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer level and used it to develop a method for engineering the first-ever nanofluidic device with complex 3-D...
Pair accused of stealing kitchen grease
WESTLAND, Mich., April 9 (UPI) -- Forget electronics and jewelry, police in Westland, Mich., say used kitchen grease is the hottest new target for thieves.
Interview: Seeking the killer application
Abe Lee talks about the fundamentals of micro- and nanofluidics, lab-on-a-chip devices and finding the microfluidics ‘killer application’
iPod speakers: New offerings cute, compact, colorful
So many iPod speaker systems are available that finding the "best" could take a year. But you can sort speaker systems by style or function, so today's theme is cute...
Scientists Control Complex Nucleation Processes Using DNA Origami Seeds
The construction of complex man-made objects -- a car, say, or a pizza -- almost invariably entails "top-down" processes, with the structure of the thing being built imposed from outside....
Ancient Diatoms Lead To New Technology For Solar Energy
Engineers have discovered a way to use an ancient life form to create one of the newest technologies for solar energy, in systems that may be surprisingly simple to build...
Tide turns in fight to keep MRI scanners operating
Further pressure has been applied to the European Commission to amend the Physical Agents (EMF) Directive which, if adopted into national legislation, would drastically curtail the use of MRI scanners...
UNH: Pavement sealcoat a source of toxins in stormwater runoff
Driveways and parking lots may look better with a layer of sealcoat applied to the pavement, but the water running off the surface into nearby streams will be carrying more...
New, cheaper white light LEDs are created
CHANGCHUN, China, April 9 (UPI) -- Chinese scientists say they have developed a new type of light-emitting diode made from inexpensive, plastic-like organic materials.
X marks the spot: Ions coldly go through NIST trap junction
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new ion trap that enables ions to go through an intersection while keeping their cool. Ten million...
Nano changes rise to macro importance in a key electronics material
By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),...
Carbon nanotube polymer nanocomposites for field emission cathodes
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that you can produce a composite...
New era for fossil fuels as first carbon capturing power plant begins work
In Areas Fueled by Coal, Climate Bill Sends Chill
Missouri’s reliance on cheap electricity is deeply ingrained, but few pay attention to the origin of their savings: 21 coal-fired power plants.
Harvard biochemist named visiting scholar
Jack Strominger, Harvard University biochemist and winner of the Lasker Award for discoveries involving immune system structures, has joined The Rockefeller University as a visiting scholar for the month of...
New X-Ray Technique to Study Fuel Cell Operations
A new technique called Delta X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (delta XANES) provides information that enables us to understand why some catalysts in fuel cells work better than others, why...
MIT spinoff gets Detroit contract
Auto manufacturer Chrysler said this week it has chosen A123Systems, a Watertown company based on technology developed at MIT, to make batteries for its new Envi line of electric and...
The New TV Remote: Your Bare Hand?
The TV remote control of the future isn't an expensive device with an LCD screen and blinking lights. It's your hand.
Einstein researchers devise a fast and sensitive way to detect ricin
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a simple, accurate, and highly sensitive test to detect and quantify ricin, an extremely potent toxin with potential...
DNA used to distinguish wildfowl meat
A team of researchers from the Veterinary Faculty of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have developed a quick and easy technique to distinguish the meat of quail, pheasant, pigeon...
Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates
(PhysOrg.com) -- When physicists entangle light, they usually use nonlinear crystals as the source. However, it`s difficult to control the entanglement generation process in a bulk crystal, and so scientists...
Physicists Squeeze Light Out Of Quantum Dots
Scientists have successfully amplified light with so-called "colloidal quantum dots," a technology that had been written off by many as a dead-end. The researchers determined that colloidal quantum dots do...
Key Protein In Cellular Respiration Discovered
Many diseases derive from problems with cellular respiration, the process through which cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers have now discovered a new function for a protein in the mitochondrion...
Beautifully varnished - using renewable
When the petroleum runs out, renewable sources of raw materials will have to be found to replace petrochemical feedstocks. In the case of furniture varnishes, Fraunhofer researchers at the Institute...