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Warming Up For Magnetic Resonance Imaging
A new method of magnetic resonance imaging, much faster, more selective -- able to distinguish even among different target molecular species -- and many thousands of times more sensitive, has...
How Light Squeezes Through Small Holes: Detailed For First Time
How does light pass through a tiny hole? For the first time, scientists have succeeded in mapping this process in detail. Their research also promises a significant improvement in Terahertz...
Newest GREET Model Updates Environmental Impacts Of Specific Fuels And Automobiles
The newest version of the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy use in Transportation model will provide researchers with even more tools to evaluate and compare the environmental impacts of...
Modern Ceramics Help Advance Technology
Many important electronic devices used by people today would be impossible without the use of ceramics. A new study illustrates the use of ceramic materials in the development of technological...
Photosynthetic Dimmer Switch For Plants Identified
In a study of the molecular mechanisms by which plants protect themselves from oxidation damage should they absorb too much sunlight during photosynthesis, researchers have discovered a molecular "dimmer switch"...
New Gas Sensors For Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Sinks
A novel gas sensor system makes it possible to monitor large areas cost-effectively the first time. The patented gas sensor is based on the principle of diffusion, according to which...
New technique measures ultrashort laser pulses at focus
Lasers that emit ultrashort pulses of light are used for numerous applications including micromachining, microscopy, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy and controlling chemical reactions. But the quality of the results is...
80-mph electric car to go on sale this summer in the US
Green Vehicles, a company based in San Jose, California, has recently revealed that it will begin selling two lithium-ion-powered electric vehicles early this summer. The three-wheeled TRIAC is a highway-capable...
To Catch a Plutonium Thief, Try Antineutrinos [News]
A new more secure technology for guarding against theft from nuclear reactors has passed its first test.Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., successfully...
Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange
Hydrogen bonds are quite small, on the level of a few angstroms. They can also be passed between two different molecules very quickly, at speeds of tens of times per...
Broadband over Power Lines
Broadband over Power Lines, or BPL, is a technology developed to send data over lines also used for electric power transmission. Simply put, it's high-speed Internet through your electrical outlets....
Keeping Yields, Profits, and Water Quality High
Researchers investigated whether yield, weed suppression, and profit characteristics of low-external-input (LEI) farming systems could match or exceed those of conventional farming systems. Yields and profits were similar or higher...
Exhaling For Exploration: Scientists Test Lunar Breathing System
Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does that make you sweat? Or maybe make...
Undergrad Has Sweet Success With Invention Of Artificial Golgi
A graduating senior has put his basic knowledge of sugars to exceptional use by creating a lab-on-a-chip device that builds complex, highly specialized sugar molecules, mimicking one of the most...
Morgan Sparks, Bell Scientist, Dies at 91
Mr. Sparks made critical contributions to developing the second-generation transistor, which became a building block of modern electronic devices.
New maths improves sleep monitoring
A researcher has invented a new way of monitoring breathing during sleep using a formula based on chaos theory, making the process cheaper and simpler.
Go Speed Racer! Demons on Wheels Designed
Transportation design students make a car based on Speed Racer's.
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Rarest Big Cat Caught in Camera Trap
Eight Amur leopards—the world's rarest big cat—were recently photographed in far southeastern Russia, giving renewed hope to conservationists.
Ottawa student creates 'flu glue'
OTTAWA, May 7 (UPI) -- An Ottawa high school student who devised a molecule to which flu viruses adhere Wednesday won a national student biotechnology competition.
How low-energy LEDs could soon be lighting our homes
Scientists have found a way to increase the light-output efficiency of LEDs through pioneering nanoelectronics
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The Littlest Big Bang
The device is a cylinder a bit smaller than a pinky finger, filled with helium and cooled to just above absolute zero. Inside, a young universe—or something very much like...
A 'squeeze' in cuprates may explain superconducting temperatures
New experiments at Cornell have verified a theory that variations in the distance between atoms in cuprate superconductors account for differences in the temperature at which the material begins to...
Controversial energy drink aims for Canadian shelves
A Las Vegas-based company is aiming to bring its controversial energy drink mix to Canada this summer, amid complaints the beverage glamourizes drug culture.
Hitachi Delivers Performance Without Sacrifice in New 7,200 RPM Travelstar HDD
Hitachi Global Storage today began shipment of its fourth-generation 7,200 RPM mobile hard drive, the Travelstar 7K320.
Engineers 'bone' up on biological materials
In a recent feature article published in Materials Research Society's Bulletin, Dr Michelle Oyen explores the potential uses of synthetic bone-like material. Michelle suggests that these materials will be too...
Feature: The power of plants
Every minute of every day, plants around the globe convert 50,000 tonnes of sugar they’ve produced by photosynthesis into high-energy molecules to drive their growth. Marcia Van Zeller investigates the...
Powering Cars of the Future Fuels Students' Success
Mississippi State University engineering students lead an international competition to bring more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles into the marketplace. General Motor's Challenge X competition completes its final stretch with a national...