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New laser-patterning technique turns metals into supermaterials
Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)
By zapping ordinary metals with femtosecond laser pulses researchers from the University of Rochester in New York have created extraordinary new surfaces that e...
Laser-generated surface structures create extremely water-repellent metals
Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Rochester have used lasers to transform metals into extremely water repellent, or super-hydrophobic, materials without the need ...
Satellite telemetry tracks bearded vultures
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
The Pyrenees are home to continental Europe's only wild population of bearded vultures, a species classified as endangered in Spain. A study compiled by Spanish...
Liquids and glasses relax, too. But not like you thought
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
A new insight into the fundamental mechanics of the movement of molecules recently published by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technolog...
Crush those clinkers while they're hot
Jan 19, 2015 (SPX)
Making cement is a centuries-old art that has yet to be perfected, according to researchers at Rice University who believe it can be still more efficient. Forme...
Integrating with multiferroic materials and devices silicon chips
Jan 19, 2015 (SPX)
A research team led by North Carolina State University has made two advances in multiferroic materials, including the ability to integrate them on a silicon chi...
Japan researchers target 3D-printed body parts
Jan 16, 2015 (AFP)
Japanese scientists say they are on their way to being able to create custom-made skin, bone and joints using a 3D printer. Several groups of researchers around...
Scientists build rice grain-sized laser powered by quantum dots
Jan 16, 2015 (UPI)
Scientists at Princeton have built a tiny microwave laser (a "maser") the size of a rice grain. The laser is made of artificial atoms called quantum dots -- min...
A novel inorganic material emitting laser light in solution is discovered
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
The work, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates that the new material presents efficient and degradation-resistant laser emission in the blue, a spec...
Researchers from MIPT predict properties of surface
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
An article in Physical Review Letters, which was written by a group of researchers led by Qinggao Wang from MIPT's Laboratory of Computer Design of New Material...
Zinc oxide materials tapped for tiny energy harvesting devices
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
Today, we're surrounded by a variety of electronic devices that are moving increasingly closer to us - we can attach and wear them, or even implant electronics ...
Atomic placement of elements counts for strong concrete
Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)
Even when building big, every atom matters, according to new research on particle-based materials at Rice University. Rice researchers Rouzbeh Shahsavari and Sa...
Developing New Materials For Energy Transduction
Jan 14, 2015 (SPX)
Transduction involving the conversion of energy from one form into another is common in many military and space devices, such as communications antennas (radio ...
Moving origami techniques forward for self-folding 3-D structures
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
Though the past 15 years have seen an exciting run of creative scientific advances in fabricating three-dimensional (3D) structures by self-folding of 2D sheets...
Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
Although crystal structure determination by means of X-ray diffraction has had a huge scientific impact over the last 100 years, it still requires the solution ...
Raytheon's enhanced AESA radar a boon for F/A-18 aircraft
Jan 13, 2015 (UPI)
Raytheon reports a flight test of its APG-79(V)X AESA radar has validated its enhancement of the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's F/A-18C/D aircraft. Active elec...
New Satellite Technologies For Cleaner Low Orbits
Jan 13, 2015 (ESA)
What goes up must go down. When it comes to satellites, this dictum has become a statutory requirement. Otherwise, key low orbits may well become unusable as th...
Space Debris Expert Warns About Dangers of Orbital Junk
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
The emerging problem of floating space junk becomes more and more evident and bothersome. Spacecraft and satellites are currently subject to high-speed impacts ...
Transforming planar materials into 3-D microarchitectures
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
In the cover feature article of the journal, Science, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign describe a unique process for geometrically ...
Virtual reality enters a new dimension
Jan 09, 2015 (AFP)
Welcome to "The Matrix"? Not quite, but new technologies are pushing ultra-convincing virtual realities out of the realm of science fiction and into the now. So...
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