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Engineering researchers use laser to 'weld' neurons

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

A research team based in the University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering has developed a method of connecting neurons, using ultrashort laser pulses - a breakt...

UBC researchers discover new glass technology

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine if the picture window in your living room could double as a giant thermostat or big screen TV. A discovery by researchers at the University of British C...

Honeywell developing virtual reality technologies for military

Feb 12, 2016 (UPI)

Honeywell Aerospace is to develop virtual reality technologies for future military ground vehicles, including an instrument panel that replaces windows. The wor...

Bumpy liquid films could simplify fabrication of microlenses

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Have you ever noticed that when heated a film of oil in a pan doesn't remain completely flat? Instead, it forms a wavy pattern that resembles the exterior of an...

Body temperature triggers newly developed polymer to change shape

Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)

Polymers that visibly change shape when exposed to temperature changes are nothing new. But a research team led by Chemical Engineering Professor Mitch Anthamat...

Twisted X-rays unravel the complexity of helical structures

Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)

Since the discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals just over 100 years ago, X-ray diffraction as a method of structure determination has dominated str...

Rapiscan intros MP100 backpack radiation detecter

Feb 11, 2016 (UPI)

Rapiscan Systems has introduced a lightweight, backpack-borne system for covert detection of radiological and nuclear materials. The MP100 backpack radiation de...

A deep look into a single molecule

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

The interaction of thermal energy from the environment with motional degrees of freedom is well known and often referred to as Brownian motion (also thermal mot...

Making sense of metallic glass

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

If you freeze any liquid fast enough, even liquid metal, it becomes a glass. Vitrified metals, or metallic glasses, are at the frontier of materials science res...

Scientists bridge different materials by design

Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have shown that it is possible to design and construct interfaces between materials with different structures by makin...

Metal oxide sandwiches: New option to manipulate properties of interfaces

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

Sandwich systems of thin film transition metal oxides display surprising properties at their interfaces. In case of the paradigmatic example of Lanthan-Aluminat...

Extracting rare-earth elements from coal could soon be economical in US

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

The U.S. could soon decrease its dependence on importing valuable rare-earth elements that are widely used in many industries, according to a team of Penn State...

A fast solidification process makes material crackle

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

What does it sound like when liquids solidify very fast? Researchers from the Centre of Excellence in Computational Nanoscience at Aalto University and their co...

Researchers discover new phase of boron nitride and a new way to create pure c-BN

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of the material boron nitride (Q-BN), which has potential applications for both manuf...

Breaking through insect shells at a molecular level

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

With their chitinous shells, insects seem almost invulnerable - but like Achilles' heel in Greek mythology, their impressive armor can still be attacked. Resear...

Russia to Debut 3D Printed Armata Tank

Feb 07, 2016 (Sputnik)

Russian Defense has been widely using the method of creating physical objects in a digital 3D model, or if simply said, 3D printing. The development of solid ob...

NASA's ICESat-2 equipped with unique 3-D manufactured part

Feb 03, 2016 (SPX)

NASA's follow-on to the successful ICESat mission will employ a never-before-flown technique for determining the topography of ice sheets and the thickness of s...

The strain allows to control the magnetic properties of individual iron atom

Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)

The iron Fe2+ atom embedded in a semiconductor exhibits a single non-degenerate ground state of zero magnetic moment. A team of scientists from the University o...

ChemChina 'eyeing Syngenta' in biggest ever Chinese takeover

Feb 02, 2016 (AFP)

China National Chemical Corp is closing in on a $43 billion deal to buy the Swiss pesticide giant Syngenta, according to reports Tuesday, which would be the big...

Will Space Debris be Responsible for World War III?

Feb 01, 2016 (SPX)

In recent weeks there has been a bit of speculation that collisions between active satellites and space debris could spark WW III. Vitaly Adushkin from the Russ...