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'Two-faced' Bioacids Put A New Face On Carbon Nanotube Self-assembly
Researchers have demonstrated an inexpensive way to induce carbon nanotubes to "self-assemble" in long, regular strands, a useful technique for studying nanotube properties and potentially a new way to assemble...
Atomic Scientists Call on Administration to Reduce Nuclear Threat
Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University, will co-chair the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman. Together they...
U.Va. Team Receives $1 Million Grant To Improve RFID Security
The National Science Foundation has awarded a team of University of Virginia engineers $1 million to improve the privacy and security of RFID chips, computer chips the size of a...
Super Sensitive Gas Detector Goes Down the Nanotubes
NIST researchers have devised a new method to cast arrays of metal oxide nanotubes to create novel gas sensors that are a hundred to 1,000 times more sensitive than current...
Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms
Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute have proposed a recipe for manipulating ultracold mixtures of atoms into a 'supersolid,' an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a solid...
Story Tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory - January 2009
A project to speed and safeguard the shipping of thousands of radioisotopes in the US and afar hits the highway this year, but researchers expect the benefits to extend well...
New Method Accelerates Stability Testing of Soy-Based Biofuel
NIST researchers have developed a method to accelerate stability testing of biodiesel fuel made from soybeans and identified additives that enhance stability at high temperatures, work that could help overcome...
New Tool Gives Researchers a Glimpse of Biomolecules in Motion
Using nanoscale 'test tubes' NIST researchers have demonstrated how terahertz spectroscopy can reveal the dynamic behavior of biomolecules like amino acids and proteins in water, important data for understanding their...
Smart Bridges Under Development with New Federal Grant
Engineering smart bridges that can thoroughly discuss their health with inspectors is the goal of a new $19-million project led by the University of Michigan.
Americans Eager To Reduce Their Energy Use
Many Americans have already taken action to reduce their energy use and many others would do the same if they could afford to, according to a national survey conducted by...
Microscopic 'Hands' For Building Tomorrow’s Machines
In a finding straight out of science fiction, chemical and biomolecular engineers in Maryland are describing development of microscopic, chemically triggered robotic "hands" that can pick up and move small...
Tapping The Earth For Energy
Homeowners are increasingly converting to ground-source heat pumps as a way to go green and save money on fuel.
Response: You can't label eco-lights as dim, ugly and expensive any more
Stuart Jeffries' romantic eulogy to the common lightbulb, which he described as "the perfect union of technology and poetry", also noted that incandescent lightbulbs are much better at inefficiently b
Physicists Resolve Confounding Paradox Of Quantum Theory
University of Toronto quantum physicists Jeff Lundeen and Aephraim Steinberg have shown that Hardy's paradox, a proposal that has confounded physicists for over a decade, can be confirmed and ultimately...
Keebler pulls peanut butter crackers
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Kellogg is pulling Austin and Keebler peanut butter crackers off U.S. store shelves while it investigates the source of the peanut...
Roads Present Invisible Barriers to Bats
Wing design may hinder flight across highways
New research opens door to bendable electronics
South Korean researchers have found a new way to make flexible, stretchable electrodes that could lead to electronics that fold or could be worn.
The Human Factor: Understanding the Sources of Rising Carbon Dioxide
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every time we get into our car, turn the key and drive somewhere, we burn gasoline, a fossil fuel derived from crude oil. The burning of the organic...
Insights Into Polymer Film Instability Could Aid High Tech Industries
While exploring the properties of polymer formation scientists made a fundamental discovery about these materials that could improve methods of creating the stable crystalline films that are widely used in...
Bendy gadget future for graphene
One-atom-thick layers of carbon look set to permit ultra high-speed computers and flexible, transparent electronics.
'Green' Gasoline On The Horizon
Researchers believe newer, more environmentally friendly fuels produced from biomass could create alternative energy solutions and alleviate dependence on foreign oil without requiring changes to current fuel infrastructure systems. According...
Ruben's Tube
The "Ruben's Tube" demonstration shown in the video gives a dramatic and visual representation of sound waves creating standing waves in a pipe. Whether or not you light the gas,...
Video - How To Time-Travel!
But how can you swim upstream in the river of time? Physicists Charles Liu and Michio Kaku have some answers.
High caffeine intake linked to hallucination proneness
High caffeine consumption could be linked to a greater tendency to hallucinate, a new research study suggests. People with a higher caffeine intake, from sources such as coffee, tea and...
Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos
Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. University of Wisconsin-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues have developed...
WHOI's Joe Pedlosky to Present Haurwitz Lecture at AMS Meeting
Joseph Pedlosky, a physical oceanographer with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has been awarded the Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lectureship at the American Metrological Society's 89th Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona,...
The Next Step with Richard Hart
Join Richard Hart and his crew across the US and around the world as they get their hands - and camera lenses - on fascinating and disruptive technologies.
Low temperature fuel cells: New clean, energy efficient technology to power cars and mobiles
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new version of an environmentally friendly, energy efficient technology that could replace combustion engines in cars and batteries in mobile devices such as phones and laptops is...