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Listening To Dark Matter: New Clues From Lab Deep Underground
Researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between the acoustic signals...
Scientists discover quantum mechanical 'hurricanes' form spontaneously
University of Arizona scientists experimenting with some of the coldest gases in the universe have discovered that when atoms in the gas get cold enough, they can spontaneously spin up...
Step closer to understanding Big Bang
Australian scientists have made a world first physics discovery that could help to explain how the Big Bang created the universe.
‘Waterless’ Concrete Seen As Building Block On Moon
A new article demonstrates a concept of creating concrete structures on the lunar surface without the use of water.
Foamy Invention Could Save Energy and Lives
An engineer has devised a brand new material that can save energy and lives.
Opinion: Re-starting the engines of innovation
Dr Terry Cutler reflects on the Review of the National Innovation System and how long-term inaction on our failing system is putting Australia’s economic future at risk.
New Solar Energy Material Captures Every Color of the Rainbow
Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way...
Self-healing plastic needs food additive
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have combined a food additive with a solvent to achieve nearly 100 percent efficiency in creating self-healing plastic.
Current theories can't explain observed spin segregation
Experiments with quantum systems sometimes yield surprising results. This is exactly what happened when John Thomas, a researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina found out when he and...
Cost-effective farm waste-to-energy technology focus of research
State and foundation grants exceeding $3 million will assist Michigan State University researchers in developing technology for smaller farms to turn animal waste into usable heat, electricity and other valuable...
Canadian researchers uncover tool for hunting dark matter
Researchers at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory say they have developed a new technique in the search for dark matter, the invisible substance or group of substances that make up a...
Removal Of 'super-polluters' Could Reduce Pollution From Nanoparticles By 25%
If the “super-polluters”, the high-polluting vehicles, such as certain buses and transport trucks in a poor condition, were removed, pollution from nanoparticles could be reduced by up to 25% and...
Graffitti from 1843 Key to Mysteries Investigated in LHC
Some of Fields medalist Alain Connes??? revolutionary ideas shed light on how to understand the ???zoo??? of elementary particles thrown up by accelerators like the LHC. If Connes is right,...
Company says shoes can power gadgets
Tired of your iPod running out of power? A Japanese company says it has found a way to charge portable gadgets just by walking.
Long-life light illuminates cells
Platinum-based dyes for cell imaging glow for hundreds of times longer than conventional probes
Creating Wireless Network Using Visible Light
Researchers are developing a new generation of wireless communications based on visible light instead of radio waves. This capability would piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes or...
PHOTOS: Best Microscopic Images of 2008 Announced
A beetle dances on a pin, nanotubes glow like a microscopic sun, drugs yield crystal rainbows, and more in the top ten micro-photos of the year.
Gold Nanostars Outshine the Competition
(PhysOrg.com) -- Novel nanoparticles being tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have researchers seeing stars. In a recent paper,* NIST scientists used surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to...
Einstein's Relativity Survives Neutrino Test
Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't...
First Tunable, ‘Noiseless` Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the...
Paperwork: Buckypapers Clarify Electrical, Optical Behavior of Nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes—sorted by centrifuge for length—materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made some of the most precise measurements...
Smart fabrics, the new black
(PhysOrg.com) -- Smart fabrics and intelligent textiles - material that incorporates cunning molecules or clever electronics - is thriving and European research efforts are tackling some of the...
Computer circuit builds itself
Organic molecules organize themselves to form a bridge between electrodes.
'Black silicon' boosts solar cell efficiency
Rough surface means black silicon traps wide range of light frequencies, says company after decade of development
Spotting Nascent Protein Crystals
Optical technique reduces background noise and could cut screening times and costs
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance to expand in 2009
To better serve its authors and subscribers, the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (JMEP), published by ASM International, The Materials Information Society, is expanding to nine issues in 2009.
Keeping others going has company surging
When the plug was pulled on southeastern Michigan five years ago, sending the area into a historic power outage, things kept humming at a Southfield, Mich., company.
Teaching Nano to Swim
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ayusman Sen, head of the Department of Chemistry at Penn State, makes tiny, metallic objects do something extraordinary -- he makes them swim. Sen's work is driven by...