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Caltech scientists create DNA tubes with programmable sizes for nanoscale manufacturing
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical--and precisely programmable--circumferences. The technological feat may allow the use of...
Environmental Friendly Technology Can Remove Ink Stains In Paper Recycling
The greatest challenge in paper recycling is removal of polymeric ink and coating; and the most difficult paper is mixed office wastepaper. Traditional de-inking processes involve large quantities of chemicals...
Findings: Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master?
Vernor Vinge has been urging his fellow humans to get smarter by collaborating with computers.
Air Storage Is Explored for Energy
A New Jersey company will announce a plan to use wind turbines to produce compressed air that can be stored underground or in tanks and released later to power generators...
The Energy Challenge: Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits
Clean energy’s dirty secret is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.
Tire companies to lose tire weights
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Tire manufacturers and retailers have agreed to phase-out the use of lead wheel weights, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday.
Chemical coat to mean drier socks
Technology developed to protect soldiers from chemical weapons may help to make almost any surface or fabric waterproof.
Gustav May Overwhelm New Orleans Defenses, Experts Say
"Every component is coming together to produce a really big storm," says one meteorologist, while an engineer sees potential for "very, very significant breaching of the levees."
Scientists take the sharpest image ever made with light
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) and the ESRF in Grenoble (France) has produced the image of an object at the highest resolution ever...
Can You Treat Composite Beams or Wings Mathematically like Isotropic Wings?
Finding the effective rigidities of an advanced composite wing can simplify the analysis considerably. The application of fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aerospace industry extends from commercial to military aircraft,...
Memory device could store data using heat
Researchers develop a way of storing and reading information with phonons
Interview: Finger on the pulse
Paul Corkum talks to Hilary Crichton about attosecond pulses and how developing new ideas is like skiing downhill
Cracking down on counterfeit drugs
A new Tamiflu screening method could help foil counterfeiters, say US scientists
Breaking the bonds of global warming
Catalyst pulls apart unreactive carbon-fluorine bonds at room temperature
Single photon detectors for telecommunications wavelengths
Practically speaking, single photon detection has not been something pursued very heavily at the wavelengths used for telecommunication signals. Part of the problem is that performance of single photon detectors...
Ultra-energy Efficient Dryer Under Development
A total drying solution for the manufacturing industry which will make significant energy savings is currently under development.
The benefit of the Cern experiments
The collisions at Cern will benefit our understanding and the scientific profession itself, says Dan Bloom
Philips Research reveals ultra-thin backlight technology for TVs
In the Future Zone of this year`s IFA trade fair in Berlin, Philips Research will demonstrate its thinnest 32`` liquid crystal display (LCD) prototype on show. With a 1mm light...
USC's 'print-a-house' construction technology
Caterpillar, the world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is starting to support research on the "Contour Crafting" automated construction system that its creator believes will one day be able to...
Huffing and Puffing
In London, Ontario, a team from the University of Western Ontario is bringing a fairy tale to life at the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes. They don't have a...
Magnetism and Superconductivity Observed to Exist in Harmony
(Physorg.com) -- Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation...
Camera Iris Mechanism Saves Bacteria
Complementary approaches capture ion channel in its open form
The hunt for the Higgs steps up a gear
The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with the release of two new results from the Tevatron particle collider...
New Sony Cyber-Shot T500 Camera's Video Capture Goes High Def
Sony is adding high-definition movie recording to its digital camera line with the introduction of the Cyber-shot DSC-T500 model.
Making a Solar Cell Component without Using Fossil Fuels
Solar energy is touted by some as the solution to the world's energy woes. But the process of making the various components requires fossil fuels, both for power and for...
The 2003 Northeast Blackout--Five Years Later
On August 14, 2003, shortly after 2 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, a high-voltage power line in northern Ohio brushed against some overgrown trees and shut down--a fault, as it's known...
Could Next-Gen Cell Phones Interrupt a Football Game?
It's fourth and goal and the home team's football quarterback can't get through to his coach on the sideline; the cast of a Broadway musical goes silent mid-show; a television...
Drilling for Hot Rocks: Google Sinks Cash into Advanced Geothermal Technology
For $1 billion over the next 40 years, the U.S. could develop 100 gigawatts (a gigawatt equals one billion watts) of electricity generation that emits no air pollution and pumps...