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Polymer find could speed drug tests
Research has discovered how complex molecules bind to synthetic plastic materials, which should improve the speed of drug testing.
Engineers develop new way to fuse cells
MIT engineers have developed a new, highly efficient way to pair up cells so they can be fused together into a hybrid cell. read more
Consumer uncertainty looms over electronics show
This week kicked off with a cloud, both literal and figurative, hanging over the world's largest gadget-fest, the Consumer Electronics Show.
Researchers Create Car Parts From Coconuts
A team of researchers who have identified a variety of low-cost products that can be manufactured from coconuts in poor coastal regions have now developed a way to use coconut...
IU physicist offers foundation for uprooting a hallowed principle of physics
Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as 'Lorentz invariance.' If...
Gold Nanoparticles For Controlled Drug Delivery
Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion.
Observatory: To Assist in Fusion, Researchers Arrange for Cells to Meet Cells
New technology may make cell fusion, which is an important tool in biological and biomedical research, more efficient.
A Better Way to Make Nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A compound synthesized for the first time by Berkeley Lab scientists could help to push nanotechnology out of the lab and into faster electronic devices, more powerful sensors,...
New sensors capable of measuring damage to infrastructure
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Genda Chen, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was recently awarded a patent for "Strain Sensitive Coax Cable Sensors...
NEC develops a nonvolatile magnetic flip flop that enables standby-power-free SoCs
NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in demonstrating the operation of a nonvolatile magnetic flip flop (MFF).
Electronics from the printer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic systems designed to perform simple functions, such as monitor the temperature on a yogurt pot, mustn`t cost much: This is where printed electronics are at an advantage....
Why Obama's Hotel Is Haunted
The Hay-Adams Hotel is said to be haunted by Marian Adams. But there's a problem with this paranormal claim.
VIDEO: Airliner Flies on Plant Fuel
Air New Zealand says a test flight Tuesday was the first commercial-jet journey to use a fuel that is equal parts biofuel and standard jet fuel.
Holes give edge to new MoD armour
Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel.
Q & A: Is It Healthy to Store Food Near a Microwave Oven?
Could cooking oil, spices or canned foods stored next to a microwave oven be receiving unhealthy doses of microwave emissions?
Detox remedies are a waste of money, say scientists
After the excess of New Year's Eve and the Christmas season, the desire to detox is natural.
Building the right cells
Just after 5 p.m. doors rattle shut and feet begin to shuffle past the narrow lab where Karim Si-Tayeb sits hunched over a microscope, all but invisible to the scientists...
Posting: A Cleaner Way to Keep the City Running
A new building with affordable rents in the Bronx will be powered partly by 10 wind turbines, which should cut its utility bills for common areas in half.
'Wireless power' spells end for cables
No more batteries, no more chargers and no more wire spaghetti. This is the future promised by "wireless power", a means of broadcasting electricity through the air to laptops, iPods...
Warmer light from OLEDs
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- University of Florida researchers say they're getting closer to creating LED-type room lighting that is as warm as an incandescent bulb.
Pump up without slimming your wallet
Whether it's good times or bad, I'm fond of saying, fitness is a bargain. But for this column, you can take that literally -- and I'm not talking about scrounging...
Physicists are first to 'squeeze' light to quantum limit
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Toronto physicists have demonstrated a new technique to squeeze light to the fundamental quantum limit, a finding that has potential applications for high-precision...
Collider head's repair confidence
The scientist in charge of the Large Hadron Collider still hopes the experiment can work after the machine's £14m repair.
Nanotech could mean sharper snaps
Research into creating tiny structures on light sensors could mean digital cameras take better pictures.
Pole Power
It's rather hard to believe that the world record in the pole vault is over 20 feet. That's twice the height of the "high dive" at your local pool. Expertise...
Scientists Extend the Lifetime of Quantum Memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Storing and sending information using quantum phenomena is one of the hottest areas of research today; scientists across the globe are investigating how to make quantum communication possible...
Sweet Nanoparticle Imaging
Sugar-coated nanoparticles aid MRI diagnosis of disease-associated lesions in the brain