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Weizmann Institute scientists create working artificial nerve networks
Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain and eventually healing conditions such...
Plasmonic Whispering Gallery Microcavity Paves The Way To Future Nanolasers
The principle behind whispering galleries -- where words spoken softly beneath a domed ceiling or in a vault can be clearly heard on the opposite side of the chamber --...
Cutting Cost Of Making Cellulosic Biofuels With New Process
A new process to pre-treat corn-crop waste before conversion into ethanol means extra nutrients don't have to be added, cutting the cost of making biofuels from cellulose. The pretreatment process...
Obama targets greenhouse gases, fuel efficiency
(AP) -- President Barack Obama took aim Monday at the lofty but long elusive goal of making the nation more energy independent, ordering reviews that could lead to tougher...
Electrochemical Capacitors For Water Desalination
Recent advances in electrochemical capacitors for energy storage open new opportunities for water desalination devices with high energy efficiency.
New wireless standard promises ultra-fast media applications
Rapid transfer of a high-definition movie from a PC to a cell phone - plus a host of other media and data possibilities - is approaching reality. The Georgia Electronic...
Aeroacoustics Study Helps Control Noise From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing increasingly important roles in many fields. Ranging in size from the huge Global Hawk aircraft to hand-held machines, these remotely controlled devices are growing...
University of Helsinki and ASM International N.V. renew 5-year research agreement on Atomic Layer Deposition
Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and ASM Microchemistry Ltd. have renewed their long-term research agreement. ASM Microchemistry Ltd. is a subsidiary of the semiconductor processing tool...
Infra red spotlights crystal growth
The creation of a reproducible crystallisation process is a fundamental challenge to drug manufacturers, but a technique which provides real time detailed analyses of chemical processes could provide an answer...
A robot inspects wind energy converters
The material of wind energy converters must withstand intense forces. Are rotor blades damaged? A new robot inspects wind energy converters more precisely than a human ever could. It detects...
Flat fixtures for EUV exposure
Exposing silicon wafers to light during chip manufacture requires special fixtures called chucks. Novel electrostatic chucks made of glass ceramics are incredibly flat. This prevents structural distortions on the exposure...
Waste-To-Energy System Could Mean Big Savings
IST Energy Corp. system converts trash into electricity and gas heat.
Design Of Microlasers Could Be Improved, Based On New Theoretical Analysis
Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam,...
How Natural Oils Can Be Hydrogenated Without Making Unhealthy Trans Fats
To prolong the shelf life of foods, manufacturers often add hydrogen to natural oils, a process called hydrogenation. But hydrogenation also results in the production of trans fats, which have...
Quantum teleportation between distant matter qubits
For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart – a significant milestone in the global quest for practical quantum...
Study Pinpoints Main Source of Asia’s Brown Cloud
Burning of biomass is the greater culprit in creating the soup of sooty haze over South Asia, a new study suggests.
Lighter, Stronger, Faster: ASM Advances Heat Treating of Light Alloys
Advances in the heat treating of aluminum, titanium and next-generation composites will be discussed during a two-day conference organized by the ASM Heat Treating Society and ASM International. Held March...
Tension in the nanoworld
A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared...
A crystal clear view of chalk formation
It has a beautiful, but also an unpleasant side: crystallisation determines the shape of precious stones, but also causes the lime scale in washing machines. How this comes about, has...
Oh, the climate outside is frightening
A new IBM consulting offering can help companies reduce carbon dioxide emissions, fuel usage and costs by providing a detailed analysis of their supply chain logistics and suggesting improvements...
Keeping cool using the summer heat
While most Australians are taking care to shield themselves from the harsh summer heat, scientists from the CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship are working on ways to harness the sun's warmth...
Sanyo, Nippon Oil announce solar power tie-up
Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. and Nippon Oil Corp. said Friday they would collaborate to produce thin-film solar cells for large-scale power generation.
ORNL goes solar with 288-foot span of panels
Oak Ridge National Laboratory wants its energy operations to be as advanced as its energy research.
Time to rethink intellectual property laws?
Patents on scientific knowledge may not be as useful — or valuable — as many claim them to be.
Quantum Technologies Move A Step Closer With Demonstration Of An 'Entanglement' Filter
A team of physicists and engineers has demonstrated an optical device that filters two particles of light (or photons) based on the correlations between their polarisation that are only allowed...
Researchers Explore What Contemporary Science Cannot Explain
A team philosophers is conducting a three-year research project to explore conscious experiences that contemporary science still cannot explain.
New Way To Produce Hydrogen Discovered
Scientists have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water. The findings are important because they demonstrate that it is the geometries of...
U of T team heats up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer
Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller,...