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Liquid Or Solid? Charged Nanoparticles In Lipid Membrane Decide
Patchiness in phospholipid membranes is fundamental to their use as biomolecules and biosensors. Using charged nanoparticles, researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to stimulate patchiness...
Scientists in Mexico turn tequila into diamonds
Farmers in Mexico have been given another reason to grow agave, the cactus-like plant used to produce the country's most potent export. In the bar room equivalent of alchemy, scientists...
CO2 laser heat controller is developed
TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Israeli scientists say they've created a technique to control the heat generated by carbon dioxide lasers that are used to seal...
Miniaturizing Memory: Taking Data Storage To The Molecular Level
Researchers are now exploring ways of exploiting the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to create a cheap and compact memory cell that uses little power and writes information at high...
Luminescence shines new light on proteins
A chance discovery by a team of scientists using optical probes means that changes in cells in the human body could now be seen in a completely different light.
New method created to produce graphene
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a new process for mass producing the nanomaterial graphene in large quantities.
Scientists report a nanotechnology advance
ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have made a "major breakthrough" by creating a method to test nanoparticles and how they work in various...
New Nanomaterial Could Be Breakthrough For Implantable Medical Devices
Researchers have made a breakthrough that could lead to new dialysis devices and a host of other revolutionary medical implants. The researchers have found that the unique properties of a...
Nature’s Own Chemical Plant
Crude oil is getting more and more expensive, a fact clearly felt by the chemical industry. An alternative source of carbon is biomass, for instance colza and whey, which can...
Through A Glass, Darkly
Reader Bob Fately asks: When you 'stop down' the aperture of a camera lens and reduce the size of the hole through which light passes, why does the overall scene darken...
Victoria Petite presents research at annual iDMAa conference
Victoria Petite '09, a Stevens Institute of Technology Art and Technology major, was invited to give a presentation at the annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) conference on...
Polymers strut their stuff under the spotlight
Chemists in Japan have created light-driven polymer films that walk like inchworms and move like robotic arms
Design rules for wet-proof materials
New equations give surfaces that can resist wetting by any liquid
Optical illusions: caused by eye or brain?
When viewing the famous optical illusion painting Enigma by Isia Leviant, many people claim to see motion within the colored circles moving against the black and white striped background. Although...
'Super-microscope' opens at Isis
A new £200m neutron source at Isis, Oxfordshire, will allow scientists to probe matter at the atomic level.
Urea tanks on diesel trucks -- that's the law in the United States starting in 2010
Urea tanks will be standard equipment for most new diesel trucks, buses, cars, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) manufactured in the United States after Jan. 1, 2010. An automotive grade...
Blueprint to repel oil and water
The texture of surfaces could be designed so that both water and oil can bead up and thus flow off
Nature's 'fibre optics' experts
Sea sponges can beam light deep inside their bodies, and do so using the natural equivalent of fibre optic cables, scientists find.
Motorola Features First Public Safety Suite of 4G Wireless Broadband Applications Delivered on 700 MHz
Motorola, Inc. is demonstrating public safety wireless broadband applications over a live, 700 MHz wireless broadband system, which represents an industry first and an important milestone in advancing agency communications.
Radioactive legacy of 'lost bomb'
The 1968 crash of a B52, armed with nuclear warheads, has left a lasting legacy, according to those involved in the clear-up.
Plastic additives leach into medical experiments, research shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have shown that using plastic lab equipment can skew or ruin the results of medical experiments.
Lead-flapping objects experience less wind resistance than their trailing counterparts
It is commonly known that racing cars and bicyclists can reduce air resistance by following closely behind a leader, but researchers from New York University and Cornell University have found...
Tiny Loudspeakers
Flexible, stretchable carbon-nanotube-based devices emit sound via thermoacoustic effect
Modeling Ice Cream Production In The Search For Innovation
The production of ice cream, a seemingly simple product, brings into play a variety of complex hydrodynamic and thermic processes, with as yet poorly known interactions. To assist industry in...
Terrorism crackdown threatens chemisty hobbyists
Laws and regulations intended to crack down on terrorists, illicit drug manufacture, and other criminal activities are stifling an elite cadre of individuals who pursue chemistry as a hobby and...
The Safety Gap
China is becoming the biggest producer of pharmaceutical ingredients in the world but the F.D.A. inspects just a tiny fraction of China’s drug plants. Can we be sure what...
BP quits carbon capture competition
Just three consortia will now compete for UK government funding to build a CCS demonstration plant
Physicists use Bose-Einstein condensates to enhance factoring algorithm
(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretically, quantum computing has the potential to work more efficiently and accurately than classical computing for certain processes, such as factoring. But quantum methods are experimentally challenging, since...