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Explosives go 'green'
Certain explosives may soon get a little greener and a little more precise. LLNL researchers added unique green solvents (ionic liquids) to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene) and improved the crystal quality and chemical purity of the material.
Tiny 3-D ultrasound probe guides catheter procedures
An ultrasound probe small enough to ride along at the tip of a
catheter can provide physicians with clearer real-time images of
soft tissue without the risks associated with conventional...
Scientists reveal effects of quantum 'traffic jam' in high-temperature superconductors
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado, have...
DOE official cites need for major breakthroughs to cope with climate change
Meeting the world's growing energy needs while responding to global
warming during the 21st Century will be one of the biggest
challenges humanity has ever faced, Raymond L. Orbach, Ph.D.,...
Molecular cubes in the sunlight
This press release is also available in German.
Chips are down as Manchester makes protein scanning breakthrough
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new and fast method for making biological 'chips' – technology that could lead to quick testing for serious diseases, fast detection...
Light touch: Controlling the behavior of quantum dots
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative
center of the University of Maryland and NIST, have reported a new...
Creating unconventional metals
The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis
for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers
to electric motors. In this week's issue of the journal...
Controlling the size of nanoclusters
Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of...
Chemist travels world to study mysterious properties of neutrinos
In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles — the neutrino — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading...
Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics
The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator--the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--in Europe this summer. On September 10, LHC...
Ceramic material revs up microwaving
Quicker microwave meals that use less energy may soon be possible with new ceramic microwave dishes and, according to the material scientists responsible, this same material could help with organic waste remediation.
Breaking harmful bonds
Everybody loves the way breakfast eggs conveniently slide off of Teflon without leaving any pesky pieces of egg in the pan. Indeed, the carbon-fluorine bond at the heart of Teflon...
Fingerprint analysis technique could be used to identify bombmakers
University of Leicester experts have held discussions with military personnel in Afghanistan following the discovery of new technology to identify fingerprints on metal.
Bones get mended with high tech glass-of-milk
Magnetic Resonance unit at the University of Warwick have discovered how a high tech glass of milk is helping bones mend.
Future for clean energy lies in 'big bang' of evolution
Amid mounting agreement that future clean, "carbon-neutral", energy will rely on efficient conversion of the sun's light energy into fuels and electric power, attention is focusing on one of the...
Air-purifying church windows early nanotechnology
Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered.
New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision
Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has
twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for
applications that include biological sensors and more compact,...
Fast quantum computer building block created
The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers at University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...
A better way to make hydrogen from biofuels
Researchers here have found a way to convert ethanol and other biofuels into hydrogen very efficiently.
Polymer electric storage, flexible and adaptable
The proliferation of solar, wind and even tidal electric generation and the rapid emergence of hybrid electric automobiles demands flexible and reliable methods of high-capacity electrical storage. Now a team...
University of Pennsylvania scientists move optical computing closer to reality
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to well past the...
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