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Team builds first quantum cascade laser on silicon

Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)

A team of researchers from across the country, led by Alexander Spott, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, have built the first quantum cascade laser ...

3D-printed foam proves more durable than traditional cellular materials

Apr 27, 2016 (UPI)

According to material scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 3D-printed foam is more durable and functional than cellular materials. Traditional ...

Model makes designing new antennas orders of magnitude faster

Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a model that allows antenna designers to identify efficient configurations for antenna designs in ...

Liquid spiral vortex discovered

Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)

In many plumbing and pipework systems in general, there are junctions and connections to move liquids such as water in different directions, but have you ever t...

Antimatter helps to unveil the secrets of liquid crystals

Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)

The chaos typical of liquid molecules, and the ordering characteristics of crystals. There are states of matter connecting such contradictory features: liquid c...

Researchers coax molecules into assembling themselves

Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine throwing Lego pieces into the air and seeing them fall to the ground assembled into the shape of a house or plane. Nature effortlessly does the equivale...

Companies named for Navy's open RF program

Apr 26, 2016 (UPI)

A dozen U.S. companies have won places on a multiple-award, IDIQ contract for the Navy's Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare Command and Control program. The indef...

Nano-magnets produce 3-dimensional images

Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)

Conventional 3D displays, such as stereo displays with glasses and glass-free autostereoscopic displays, show two-dimensional images for each eye. Therefore, us...

Exfoliating thinner flakes of phosphorene at higher yield

Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)

In the past two years, phosphorene has attracted increased attention due to its potential in thin, flexible electronics. And because it is naturally a semi-cond...

Victorian Age technology could boost virtual reality

Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)

Virtual and augmented reality have the potential to profoundly impact our society, but the technologies have a few bugs to work out to better simulate realistic...

Magnetic vortices defy temperature fluctuations

Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)

Magnetic nanovortices in magnetite minerals are reliable witnesses of the earth's history, as revealed by the first high-resolution studies of these structures ...

Indian space scientists produce world's lightest synthetic material

Apr 22, 2016 (XNA)

Indian scientists have come up with what they claim is the world's lightest material called silica aerogel or blue air, local media reported Thursday. A team at...

Laser source for biosensors

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

In the area of nano photonics, scientists for the first time succeeded in integrating a laser with an organic gain medium on a silicon photonic chip. This appro...

Video shows how heat moves through materials at the speed of sound

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

Using a state-of-the-art ultrafast electron microscope, University of Minnesota researchers have recorded the first-ever videos showing how heat moves through m...

Simple 3-D fabrication technique for bio-inspired hierarchical structures

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

Nature is no doubt the world's best biological engineer, whose simple, exquisite but powerful designs have inspired scientists and engineers to tackle the chall...

Thanks, actin, for the memories

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

Thank the little "muscles" in your neurons for allowing you to remember where you live, what your friends and family look like and a lot more. New research at R...

A laser for your eyes

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

A team of the Lomonosov Moscow State University scientists and the Belarusian National Technical University has created a unique laser, which is a compact light...

Generation of tailored magnetic materials

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

Every day, new technologies require more precision in the intrinsic properties of the materials used. To meet increasingly specific requirements, physicists are...

'Weirdest martensite': Century-old smectic riddle finally solved

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

Using the latest computer game technology, a Cornell-led team of physicists has come up with a "suitably beautiful" explanation to a puzzle that has baffled res...

Using methane rather than flaring it

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

Methane is an abundant and inexpensive gas. Although it would be a suitable energy source and base material for the chemical industry, huge quantities of it are...