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Deep sea rocks may be future source for rare earth metals
Apr 16, 2013 (UPI)
Smart phones are ubiquitous, but the materials they're made of are "rare" -- at least rare enough to be called rare earth metals. In recent years, economists an...
US eases export rules on aerospace parts
Apr 16, 2013 (AFP)
The United States on Tuesday eased rules on the export of select items in the aerospace industry, in an effort to reduce regulations that are thought to be putt...
UC Research Demonstrates Why Going Green Is Good Chemistry
Apr 15, 2013 (SPX)
Shaken, not stirred, is the essence of new research that's showing promise in creating the chemical reactions necessary for industries such as pharmaceutical co...
Scientists design new adaptive material inspired by tears
Apr 15, 2013 (SPX)
Imagine a tent that blocks light on a dry and sunny day, and becomes transparent and water-repellent on a dim, rainy day. Or highly precise, self-adjusting cont...
High pressure gold nanocrystal structure revealed
Apr 15, 2013 (SPX)
A major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressure has been made by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnol...
PETRA Reveals Coexisting Structures in Glass
Apr 12, 2013 (SPX)
The craft of glassmaking extends way back in time. It was over five-thousand years ago when mankind learned how to make glass. Even prior to this discovery, hum...
Florida Tech professors present 'dark side of dark lightning' at conference
Apr 12, 2013 (SPX)
"What are the radiation doses to airplane passengers from the intense bursts of gamma-rays that originate from thunderclouds?" Florida Institute of Technology D...
Northrop Grumman G/ATOR Radar System Completes Government Testing at Wallops Island
Apr 10, 2013 (SPX)
The AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system completed two phases of government developmental testing at the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC...
Middle Eastern country orders more border radar
Apr 10, 2013 (UPI)
An unidentified Middle East country has ordered additional border security radars from Airbus Defense and Space, the company reports. Under the award -- an exte...
Accidental discovery may lead to improved polymers
Apr 09, 2013 (SPX)
Chemical Engineering Professor Tim Bender and Post-Doctoral Fellow Benoit Lessard's discovery of an unexpected side product of polymer synthesis could have impl...
New camera system creates high-resolution 3-D images from up to a kilometer away
Apr 09, 2013 (SPX)
A standard camera takes flat, 2-D pictures. To get 3-D information, such as the distance to a far-away object, scientists can bounce a laser beam off the object...
Watching fluid flow at nanometer scales
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
Imagine if you could drink a glass of water just by inserting a solid wire into it and sucking on it as though it were a soda straw. It turns out that if you we...
Theory and practice key to optimized broadband, low-loss optical metamaterials
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
The union of theory and practice makes broadband, low-loss optical devices practical, which is why two groups of Penn State engineers collaborated to design opt...
What's between a slip and a slide?
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
Working with the International Tennis Federation and colleagues at the University of Exeter, the team from the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering ...
Light may recast copper as chemical industry 'holy grail'
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
Wouldn't it be convenient if you could reverse the rusting of your car by shining a bright light on it? It turns out that this concept works for undoing oxidati...
CWRU-led scientists build material that mimics squid beak
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University have turned to an unlikely model to make medical devices safer and more comfortable-a squid's b...
Michigan Tech researcher slashes optics laboratory costs
Apr 04, 2013 (SPX)
Just as the power of the open-source design has driven down the cost of software to the point that it is accessible to most people, open-source hardware makes i...
CO2 could produce valuable chemical cheaply
Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)
A key advance, newly reported by chemists from Brown and Yale Universities, could lead to a cheaper and more sustainable way to make acrylate, an important comm...
Catalyst in a teacup: New approach to chemical reduction
Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)
Taking their inspiration from Nature, scientists at the University of New South Wales have developed a new method for carrying out chemical reduction - an indus...
Paint-on plastic electronics: Aligning polymers for high performance
Mar 28, 2013 (SPX)
Semiconducting polymers are an unruly bunch, but University of Michigan engineers have developed a new method for getting them in line that could pave the way f...
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