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Interlayer distance in graphite oxide gradually changes when water is added
Jul 05, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists from Umea University and Humboldt University in Berlin have solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for half a century. They show with the help ...
Nature of solids and liquids explored through new pitch drop experiment
Jul 05, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists at Queen Mary University of London have set up a new pitch drop experiment for students to explore the difference between solid and liquids. Known as...
Making Dreams Come True : Making Graphene from Plastic?
Jul 05, 2014 (SPX)
Graphene is gaining heated attention, dubbed a "wonder material" with great conductivity, flexibility and durability. However, graphene is hard to come by due t...
With 'ribbons' of graphene, width matters
Jul 05, 2014 (SPX)
Using graphene ribbons of unimaginably small widths - just several atoms across - a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has foun...
A million times better
Jul 05, 2014 (SPX)
Nonlinear optical materials are widely used in laser systems. However, high light intensity and long propagation are required to produce strong nonlinear optica...
Nine killed in landslide at Indonesian gold mine
Jul 04, 2014 (AFP)
A landslide at an illegal gold mine has killed nine men in remote eastern Indonesia, an official said Friday, the latest deaths in an industry that is booming a...
Does 3D printing have the right stuff?
Jul 03, 2014 (ESA)
3D-printed parts promise a revolution in the space industry, rapidly creating almost any object needed. But do the results really have the right stuff for flyin...
A step closer to bio-printing transplantable tissues and organs
Jul 03, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have made a giant leap towards the goal of 'bio-printing' transplantable tissues and organs for people affected by major diseases and trauma injurie...
ELASTx Stretches Potential for Future Communications Technologies
Jul 03, 2014 (SPX)
Many existing compact, high-data-rate millimeter-wave wireless communications systems use integrated circuits (ICs) made with gallium arsenide (GaAs) or gallium...
New NIST metamaterial gives light a one-way ticket
Jul 03, 2014 (SPX)
The light-warping structures known as metamaterials have a new trick in their ever-expanding repertoire. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ...
EU rubbishes waste in drive for Green growth
Jul 02, 2014 (AFP)
The EU wants to ban the dumping of all recyclable rubbish in landfill sites as part of a social and economic revolution to re-use, repair and recycle. "We propo...
NOAA GOES-R Satellite Black Wing Ready for Flight
Jun 30, 2014 (SPX)
The solar array that will provide power to NOAA's GOES-R satellite has been tested, approved and shipped to a facility where it will be incorporated on the spac...
Whale of a target: harpooning space debris
Jun 30, 2014 (ESA)
Faced with the challenge of capturing tumbling satellites to clear key orbits, ESA is considering turning to an ancient terrestrial technology: the harpoon. Use...
Ghost writing the whip
Jun 30, 2014 (SPX)
"Ghost imaging" sounds like the spooky stuff of frivolous fiction, but it's an established technique for reconstructing hi-res images of objects partly obscured...
A breakthrough in creating invisibility cloaks, stealth technology
Jun 25, 2014 (SPX)
Controlling and bending light around an object so it appears invisible to the naked eye is the theory behind fictional invisibility cloaks. It may seem easy in ...
Strange physics turns off laser
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
Inspired by anomalies that arise in certain mathematical equations, researchers have demonstrated a laser system that paradoxically turns off when more power is...
New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
What's the difference between the Eiffel Tower and the Washington Monument? Both structures soar to impressive heights, and each was the world's tallest buildin...
Researchers develop new ultralight, ultrastiff 3D printed materials
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
Imagine a material with the same weight and density as aerogel -- a material so light it's called 'frozen smoke' -- but with 10,000 times more stiffness. This m...
NASA's Science Mission Directorate Cubesat Initiative
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
Beginning in October 2013, the NASA Science Mission Directorate, or SMD, started a new CubeSat Initiative -- a cross divisional project to develop scientific Cu...
New digital fabrication technique creates interlocking 3D-printed ceramic PolyBricks
Jun 23, 2014 (SPX)
An innovative system using automated 3D printing technology and advanced digital tools to create customized, prefabricated ceramic building blocks, called PolyB...
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