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Solving The Mysteries Of Metallic Glass
Researchers have made significant progress in understanding a class of materials that has resisted analysis for decades. Their findings could lead to the rapid discovery of a variety of useful...
Remarkably Bright White Light Given Off When Diaper Rash Cream Concoction Is Heated To High Temperature
Scientists have found that a cheap and nontoxic sunburn and diaper rash preventative can be made to produce brilliant light best suited to the human eye. Physicists have discovered that...
Solar-diesel fills remote energy gap
A solar system could reduce the energy needs of remote areas such as mine sites, switching to diesel to keep generating power when the weather is cloudy.
The "Detroit's A Loser" Myth
The inconvenient truth is GM, Ford and Chrysler build a lot of really good - and often great - cars and we buy a lot of them.
Seven easy actions you can do today to save the environment and gas
Want to save gasoline, lower your power bills and help save the environment? New Vanderbilt research identifies seven simple actions individuals can start today that have the potential to dramatically...
IBM researchers develop world's fastest graphene transistor
IBM researchers announced that they demonstrated the operation of graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies, and achieved the highest frequencies reported so far using this novel non-silicon electronic material...
Scientists create titanium-based structural metallic-glass composites
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a range of structural metallic-glass composites, based in titanium, that are lighter and less expensive than any the group had...
Dot Earth: Ask Obama’s Science Team
What would you like to ask the science team advising the 44th president?
Computing in a molecule
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth...
Uranium exposed
US scientists have developed a way to tell if war veterans have been in contact with depleted uranium
Argonne's modelling expertise to explore alternative sustainable sources of energy
Two computational scientists in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory have been awarded a total of 37,500,000 hours of computing time on the Argonne Leadership Computing...
Research pays off in gold
Why does gold occur where it does in the bedrock? If we understood that we would be able to make new finds also in areas where we had not looked...
No Pulp Fiction: Engineers See Major Paper Mill Savings With New Rotor Technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- A partnership between University of British Columbia, government and the pulp and paper industry has resulted in the development of three high efficiency pulp screen rotors that produce...
Research In Magnetic Semiconductors Leading to Advances in Computing
The fast pace of growing computing power could be sustained for many years to come with new advances in magnetic semiconductors.
World's First Deep Sea Lab-on-a-chip Sensors Proved To Work
Innovative marine sensor technologies have been tested on a research cruise (D333, RRS Discovery, Canary Islands) and are now ready to be developed further for commercialization.
Letters: Why you can leave your hat on
Letters: There are only three reasons to wear a hat: to keep warm, to keep cool and to look silly
Government Fails to Assess Potential Dangers of Nanotechnology
Pesticide DDT, industrial lubricants PCBs and now plastic BPA (bisphenol A) are all widely used industrial chemical compounds that have been discovered to cause ills such as cancer and/or environmental...
NVIDIA Ion Platform Energizes Atom Into A Premium PC Experience
NVIDIA is poised to energize the PC market by transforming Atom PCs into a premium experience found today in higher priced laptops and desktops. NVIDIA will supercharge the fastest-growing segments...
Factory For Chevy Volt Engine On Hold
Cash-strapped auto giant General Motors has put plans on hold for a new factory to build the Chevy Volt engine, according to a report.
Low Temperature Laser Processing Solves a Problem in Smart Materials Manufacturing
(PhysOrg.com) -- If researchers could integrate some of the active materials, such as perovskites, that have been developed in recent years for microsensor, actuator, and transducer applications directly onto a...
2009 DOE INCITE Projects Allocated at ORNL
In 2009, ORNL will make nearly 470 million processor hours available on Jaguar, its Cray XT supercomputer. Thirty eight separate projects will advance breakthrough research in critical areas such as...
Ethiopians switched on by free, low-energy light bulbs
The Ethiopian government is handing out free energy-saving light bulbs to householders to prevent power cuts.
Tidal energy system on full power
A tidal turbine near the mouth of Strangford Lough begins producing electricity at full capacity for the first time.
A natural solution to man-made problems
Biology could provide us with cheap and biodegradable gas-storage materials for energy applications, say Italian scientists
Stealthy Cats’ Achilles Heel Discovered
Researcher film cat movement, find is energy inefficient, but keeps them stable.
PICO and SALVE: Understanding the subatomic world better
Two new high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, co-financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are set to open up new opportunities for research in physics and materials science. The...
Feature: The promise of fusion
Though fusion power faces many technical difficulties, fusion technology may eventually be able to deliver a great deal of power without significant greenhouse emissions.
Random motion of bacteria could drive micromotors
Tiny organisms could spin a rotor, say physicists