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Viruses Used to Grow "Greener" Batteries
With the help of a common virus, scientists have built a battery that rivals the state-of-the-art rechargeable models now powering personal electronics and hybrid vehicles.
Light is used to analyze immune cells
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed an optical technique that enables rapid analysis of single human immune cells using only light.
McGill researchers squeeze light out of quantum dots
McGill University researchers have successfully amplified light with so-called 'colloidal quantum dots,' a technology that had been written off by many as a dead-end...
Optical Illusions: Variety Makes Us Perceive Smaller Quantities
Here's another reason why dieters should avoid all-you-can-eat buffets: When faced with a large variety of items, consumers tend to underestimate how much of each item is present, according to...
Carbon Capture Has A Sparkling Future, New Findings Show
New research shows that for millions of years carbon dioxide has been stored safely and naturally in underground water in gas fields saturated with the greenhouse gas. The findings bring...
Verizon Wireless sees Kindle-type e-readers coming
(AP) -- Amazon's Kindle might soon be getting new competitors in the market for electronic-book devices.
Restoring Teeth: Glass Fiber Posts Favor More Resistant And More Beautiful Smiles, Study Finds
Restoring teeth to offer not only a beautiful smile but also a highly resistant one is the ultimate goal of the project undertaken by researchers in Spain. To this end,...
Signals could be from dark matter
Streams of positron particles detected by a satellite could have been produced by dark matter, say researchers.
Breakthrough made in energy efficiency, use of waste heat
Engineers at Oregon State University have made a major new advance in taking waste heat and using it to run a cooling system - a technology that can improve the...
Distortion on TV
It's physics demo day, and here we have the old "television picture distorted by a magnetic field" trick. Many of you may have observed this phenomenon directly, or even perpetrated...
Renewables the way forward for India
Renewables like solar, wind and biomass could help India meet its growing energy needs and create millions of jobs, says Anil K. Rajvanshi.
Wind Energy Leader Vestas Forges Partnership with UW College of Engineering
Vestas, the world's leading producer of wind power technology, has entered into a long-term partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering that promises to propel wind-energy research, provide...
Multivariate coupling mechanism of superhydrophobicity on NOCTUIDAE moth wing surface
Research carried out by Key Laboratory for Terrain Machine Bionics Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University in Changchun, China, has shown that the co-coupling effect of scale biomaterial, micron-class...
Carbon Atoms On The Go
Videos catch carbon atoms undergoing rearrangements along graphene edges. With Videos
Opinion: The looming replacement cycle of coal-fired power
Within the next ten years many of the world’s coal-fired power plants will need to be retired. The big question is, what energy source will replace them?
Magnetic nano-'shepherds' organise cells
The power of magnetism could be an enabling technology to address a major problem facing bioengineers as they try to create new tissue - getting human cells to not only...
Engineers develop method to disperse chemically modified graphene in organic solvents
A method for creating dispersed and chemically modified graphene sheets in a wide variety of organic solvents has been developed by a University of Texas at Austin engineering team led...
Rosy Complexion Is Sign of Health
A rosy complexion is judged to be healthier, and therefore maybe more attractive.
Discovery of Current Spike Phenomenon in Semiconductor Materials Leads to New Understanding of Nanoscale Plasticity
Plasticity in certain semiconductor materials at the nanoscale is actually linked to phase transformation rather than dislocation nucleation, as previously thought. This is shown by the results of an international...
A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam
(PhysOrg.com) -- Commissioning has begun at the Japan-based Accelerator Test Facility 2, a major technology test bed for future accelerators, including the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC. During the...
Musical Training Helps Scientist Hear Atoms' Movement
Hari Manoharan recently created the world’s smallest letters – an S and a U, for Stanford University – each only one third of one billionth of a meter across and...
World's 1st Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces Built
NIST and Cornell University researchers have used a manufacturing process for integrated circuits at the nanometer level to engineer the first-ever nanofluidic device with complex 3-D surfaces. The Lilliputian chamber...
Remote island gets wave, wind and solar power plant
A remote island in the South China Sea is to receive a power station that integrates wind, solar and wave power.
Will Inertial Confinement Fusion FINALLY Produce Power?
In 1977, I had a short-term assignment to a research group competing for a magnetic-confinement fusion test reactor project. When another company got the contract, I decided to leave my...
New RFID Technology Tracks And Monitors Nuclear Materials
Radio frequency identification devices have widely been used for tracking for years; recently, scientists have developed a unique tracking technology that also monitors the environmental and physical conditions of containers...
'First Economical Process' For Making Biodiesel Fuel From Algae
Chemists are reporting development of what they termed the first economical, eco-friendly process to convert algae oil into biodiesel fuel -- a discovery they predict could one day lead to...
Superhydrophobic: Self-cleaning, Low-reflectivity Treatment Boosts Efficiency For Photovoltaic Cells
Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of...
Transforming Medical Diagnosis With New Scanning Technology
A new technology dramatically improves the sensitivity of magnetic resonance techniques including those used in hospital scanners and chemistry laboratories. Ultimately, the technique, based on manipulating parahydrogen, the fuel of...