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Shape matters when light meets atom
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
Have you ever wondered how you see the world? Vision is about photons of light, which are packets of energy, interacting with the atoms or molecules in what you...
NASA awards contract for refueling mission spacecraft
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
NASA has awarded the Restore-L Spacecraft Bus and Support Services contract to Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, California. Restore-L is a robotic spacecraft e...
New technology of ultrahigh density optical storage researched at Kazan University
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
According to current estimates, dozens of zettabytes of information will need to be placed somewhere by 2020. New physical principles must be found, the ones th...
Researchers take first look into the 'eye' of Majoranas
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
Majorana fermions are particles that could potentially be used as information units for a quantum computer. An experiment by physicists at the Swiss Nanoscience...
Earth's 'technosphere' now weighs 30 trillion tons
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
An international team led by University of Leicester geologists has made the first estimate of the sheer size of the physical structure of the planet's technosp...
A watershed moment in understanding how H2O conducts electricity
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have taken spectroscopic snapshots of nature's most mysterious relay race: the passage of extra protons from one water molecule to another during con...
Novel silicon etching technique crafts 3-D gradient refractive index micro-optics
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
A multi-institutional research collaboration has created a novel approach for fabricating three-dimensional micro-optics through the shape-defined formation of ...
Metamaterials open up entirely new possibilities in optics
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method that enables them to manipulate light to follow any predetermined path along a surface....
New tool enables viewing spectrum from specific structures within samples
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
Fluorescence is an incredibly useful tool for experimental biology and it just got easier to tap into, thanks to the work of a group of University of Chicago re...
Creating new physical properties in materials
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
A collaborative effort between research groups at the Technical University of Freiberg and the University of Siegen in Germany demonstrates that the physical pr...
Researchers explore 2-D materials to devices faster, smaller and efficient
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
A new study by an international team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota highlights how manipulation of 2D materials could make our modern day dev...
Understanding the way liquid spreads through paper
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
Molecules move randomly, colliding with each other in continual motion. You can even smell this process at times; it's how perfume spreads across a room when th...
Laser-based Navigation Sensor Could Be Standard for Planetary Landing Missions
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
A laser-guided navigation sensor that could help future rovers make safe, precise landings on Mars or destinations beyond will soon undergo testing in Californi...
Model could shatter a mystery of glass
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
A glass is a curious material in between liquid and solid states of matter, but eventually glass always yields to its solid proclivity by settling into the orde...
Scientists unveil first 'water-wave laser'
Nov 29, 2016 (UPI)
Scientists in Israel have developed the world's first "water-wave laser," proof light and water waves can combine to generate laser radiation. Laser radiation i...
More reliable way to produce single photons for quantum information imprinting
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists at the University of Bath have developed a technique to more reliably produce single photons that can be imprinted with quantum information. The inve...
Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
It's a well-known fact that water, at sea level, starts to boil at a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius. And scientists have long obs...
With new polymer, you can carry hydrogen in your pocket
Nov 28, 2016 (UPI)
Want to carry hydrogen in your pocket? The latest invention out of Waseda University makes it possible. A team of researchers in Japan have developed a thin, fl...
Scientists trace 'poisoning' in chemical reactions to the atomic scale
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have revealed new atomic-scale details about pesky deposits that can stop or slow chemical reactions vital to fuel production and other processes. T...
Bringing silicon to life
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
A new study is the first to show that living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds - something only chemists had done before. Scientists at Ca...
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