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New insights into the polymer mystique for conducting charges
Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)
For most of us, a modern lifestyle without polymers is unthinkable...if only we knew what they were. The ordinary hardware-store terms we use for them include "...
Toxicologist says NAS panel 'misled the world' when adopting radiation exposure guidelines
Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)
In two recently published peer-reviewed articles, toxicologist Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts Amherst describes how regulators came to adop...
Space station astronauts to be provided with 3-D printer to make parts
Aug 15, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says it will send a 3-D printer to the International Space Station to allow astronauts to print parts on demand, saving time and energy. "As you might imag...
Bubbles are the new lenses for nanoscale light beams
Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)
Bending light beams to your whim sounds like a job for a wizard or an a complex array of bulky mirrors, lenses and prisms, but a few tiny liquid bubbles may be ...
Investigation into the formation of defects during phase transitions in crystals of ions
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Research groups at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Physical-Technical Federal Institute (PTB) in Braunschweig, working in collaboration with s...
Boeing Thin Disk Laser Exceeds Performance Requirements During Testing
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
A Thin Disk Laser system developed by Boeing integrates a series of high-power industrial lasers to generate one concentrated, high-energy beam. Testing has now...
Scientists create light/heat regulating window coating
Aug 14, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists said Wednesday they had created a window coating that can be switched electrically to regulate the amount of heat and light that enters a building. A...
Challenges and Practices for Space Mechanisms - Part 2
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Release and Deployment Mechanism Challenges. Challenges associated with release and deployment systems often include the impracticality of complete and independ...
Computer simulations reveal universal increase in electrical conductivity
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Computer simulations have revealed how the electrical conductivity of many materials increases with a strong electrical field in a universal way. This developme...
New materials for bio-based hydrogen synthesis
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have discovered an efficient process for hydrogen biocatalysis. They developed semi-synthetic hydrogenases, hyd...
13000 year old alien satellite orbiting Earth
Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)
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3D IR Images Now in Full Color
Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)
An iconic moment in the history of Hollywood movie magic was born in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz when Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale stepped out of the black a...
Seeing depth through a single lens
Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a way for photographers and microscopists to create a 3D image throu...
Wonders of nature inspire exotic man-made materials
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
In this month's edition of Physics World, a group of physicists describe how unique structures in the natural world are inspiring scientists to develop new type...
Bolivia to join electronic waste recycling venture
Aug 08, 2013 (UPI)
Bolivia is following Chile's lead in welcoming international investment in a new electronic waste recycling business in the country. Latin America is rated as t...
Large Area Picosecond Photodetectors push timing envelope
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
The Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD) collaboration has developed big detectors that push the timing envelope, measuring the speed of particles with a...
New Technique Allows Closer Study of How Radiation Damages Materials
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has developed a technique that provides real-time images of how magnesium changes at the atomic sca...
New 'weird' material may be new class of solids, researchers say
Aug 08, 2013 (UPI)
There may be more kinds of stuff in nature than was believed, U.S. researchers say, describing a new category of solids neither pure glasses nor crystals. "Very...
Altering organic molecules' interaction with light
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Enhancing and manipulating the light emission of organic molecules is at heart of many important technological and scientific advances, including in the fields ...
Alphasat deploys its giant reflector in orbit
Aug 07, 2013 (ESA)
Alphasat, Europe's largest-ever telecom satellite, reached a temporary position in the geostationary ring last weekend, where it deployed its 11 m-diameter main...
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