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A card-swipe for medical tests: Diagnostic device uses same principle as hard disks, MP3 players
University of Utah scientists successfully created a sensitive prototype device that could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously by acting like a credit card-swipe machine to scan...
Progress Toward New Storage Media: Reliable Nanopatterns On Chips
Scientists have produced reliable nanopatterns of a spin-transition compound on silicon oxide chips. This is a decisive step toward a new generation of molecular storage media.
Catching Earthquake Details With Ordinary Laptop Computers
Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is...
World's Smallest Hand-held Instrument For Detecting Health And Safety Threats
Researchers in Indiana are describing development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), a miniature version of a standard lab device -- some of which would dominate a living...
The power of because
Does the word "because" hold a magical power over humans? (Seriously -- this has been claimed by very reasonable scientists) read more
French try plane technology in artificial heart
(AP) -- In the race to build a better artificial heart, French scientists have turned to technology from satellites and airplanes to create a heart that they say responds...
Reduce Computer Power Usage? Silicon Optical Fiber Made Practical
Scientists have, for the firsts time, been able to make a practical optical fiber with a silicon core.
Physics lab becoming a frontrunner in ultrafast laser research
For decades, the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University has been known worldwide as a centre for atomic collision physics using particle accelerators. Now, researchers at the lab are...
Physicists soup up subatomic dragstrip
Science editor Alan Boyle’s blog: SLAC's straight-shot particle accelerator hints at the shape of atom smashers to come — and also makes for a heck of a jogging trail.
A need for improved efficiency in nanomanufacturing
New research shows that environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the processes used to manufacture them. Research published in a special...
Graphene could accelerate genomics
Tiny gaps in carbon sheets could be used to sequence DNA, says physicist
Tilting at Windmills: Is Small-Scale Turbine Power Viable--Or Just an Illusion?
Downtown Muskegon, Mich., population just over 40,000 people, has one thing on New York City's Times Square: a small-scale wind turbine powering a liquid-crystal display. Only this (smaller) billboard gives...
Nanoscale Coating Protects Products And The Economy
A professor's unique nanolaminate coatings adjust to protect products from a wide range of adverse conditions. Her work has applications in industries such as manufacturing, optical products and biomedical devices.
Revolutionary Operation Performed Live For Heart Rhythm Congress
A revolutionary heart operation technique using cutting edge technology is being performed live to delegates at the Heart Rhythm Congress 2008. The procedure to tackle heart rhythm disorder will be...
New Scan Detects Body Shape Under Clothes
New laser scan can generate 3D body shape of clothed person.
Interactive Session at International Thermal Spray Conference to Provide Surface Engineering Solutions
To communicate the benefits of thermal spray and surface engineering technology to a new audience of potential users -- including mechanical, chemical and electrical engineers and designers -- a special...
New Process Promises Bigger, Better Diamond Crystals
Researchers have developed a new technique for improving the properties of diamonds -- not only adding sparkle to gemstones, but also simplifying the process of making high-quality diamond for scalpel...
Scientists Unwrap The Elements Of Life
Researchers have taken a step forward in our understanding of how the fundamental building blocks of life are put together. They have revealed a mechanism that ensures the right metal...
NEC Develops E-paper Enabling A3 and A4 Screen Displays with Multitiling
NEC LCD Technologies today announced the successful development of multiple sizes (A3 and A4 equivalent) of electronic paper (e-paper) modules using the microcapsule electrophoresis system (see note 1).
UMC Announces Industry's First 28nm SRAMs
UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has manufactured the foundry industry's first fully functional 28nm SRAM chips. The chips are based on UMC's independently developed low-leakage...
Scientists invent device that controls, measures dynamics of chemicals in live tissue
Measuring an electrical current in an organism is pretty straightforward. All you need is an electrode. Measuring the flow of chemicals in cells or live tissue, however, is much more...
Video - The Naked Truth Under Clothes
Software uncovers detailed body shape from analyzing clothed images. Credit: Alexandru Balan & Michael Black / Brown University
Flexible OLED display one-step closer with organic light emitting material direct writing
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting methods of pattern transfer available for a number of applications right now is Laser Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT). However, when working with organic...
First images of barnacle larva's footprint
(PhysOrg.com) -- The fouling or growth of sea organisms, such as barnacles, on ships` hulls causes damage costing many billions of euros annually. In order to prevent this fouling, In...
The fluid transducer: Electricity from gas and water
Air compression systems can be found in many manufacturing operations. If a leak occurs anywhere in the system, the air pressure drops and production comes to a halt until the...
New way found to make, pattern nanowires
ITHACA, N.Y., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a method that makes and patterns nanoscale wires and other devices now made with expensive lithographic...
Secret Lives Of Catalysts Revealed
The first-ever glimpse of nanoscale catalysts in action could lead to improved pollution control and fuel cell technologies. Scientists have observed catalysts restructuring themselves in response to various gases swirling...
New 3-D optical imaging method created
CLEVELAND, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist has developed a technology he says can provide 3-D optical imaging of such anisotropic fluids as liquid crystals.