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No black holes, but extra time at LHC
Upgrade likely to be delayed in bid to capture Higgs particle.
Last-minute deal saves climate talks
Modest agreement brings developing world into the field.
Peering Into A Battery
Materials Science: Technique enables direct look at electrode transformations during charging.
Study: Light bikes don't mean quicker trip
LONDON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Buying a lighter, and probably more expensive, bicycle for one's daily commute over an older, heavier one won't save time, a British researcher says.
No evidence of time before Big Bang
Latest research deflates the idea that the Universe cycles for eternity.
New Chemistry, Less Energy Could Yield Greener Cement
Making cement is one of the world’s most carbon-intensive endeavors, but German researchers think they’ve mixed a better building solution.
Utilizing Raman spectroscopy to monitor catalysts in action
Israel E. Wachs, G. Whitney Snyder Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, and Charles A. Roberts, a graduate student at Lehigh, have published a critical review on Raman spectroscopy...
A New Blast Resistant Glass - Tougher and Thinner
Engineers are working to develop a blast-resistant glass that is lighter, thinner, and colorless, yet tough enough to withstand the force of an explosion, earthquake, or hurricane winds . Today's...
Wired up and ready to glow
Thirty years ago, no one believed that elements other than carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen could form double bonds at room temperature. But the discovery of 'kinetic protection' ligands -- large,...
Breakthrough towards lab-on-chip system for fast detection of single nucleotide variations in DNA
Panasonic and Imec today present at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco various critical components of a biomedical lab-on-chip sensor enabling fast detection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)...
Verizon, other wireless carriers vary on standards for high-speed 4G service
There is no 4G. Much like the secret to bending spoons in "The Matrix," the next generation of wireless networks is very cool but built on a bit of misdirection.
UCLA receives grant for ongoing research on high-speed, high-density computer memory
A team of researchers at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded $5.5 million for ongoing efforts to develop technology they expect will lead to...
Solar leader sees bright future
Zhengrong Shi, an engineer turned entrepreneur, has become one of Chinas richest citizens by betting heavily on the future of solar power. In a talk on Tuesday at MIT, he...
Johnson & Johnson recalls some Rolaids products
Johnson & Johnson is recalling some Rolaids products following reports of metal and wood particles found in the antacids.
'First light' of remarkable electron microscope
Tests of the new high-resolution electron microscope TITAN CUBED 80-300 has been just finished at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The microscope is one of...
Vibrating nanorods measure thin films for microcircuits
(PhysOrg.com) -- A key step in many nanofabrication processes is to create thin films, sometimes only one molecule thick, by a method known as atomic layer deposition. Researchers at Cornell...
Alternating stacks of planar cations and dipyrrole-containing anions provides concept for new materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pyrroles, which are rings containing one nitrogen and four carbon atoms, are essential components of our red hemoglobin as well as the green chlorophyll in plants. Japanese researchers...
Collective memory
As computing power continues to move from the desktop to portable devices, the nature of communications networks will change radically. A network in which devices are regularly being added and removed, and where...
CERN moves closer to antihydrogen spectroscopy
New trap puts physicists on cusp of revealing antimatter's fine structure
Supercomputing research opens doors for drug discovery
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 9, 2010 -- A quicker and cheaper technique to scan molecular databases developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could put scientists on...
Fahrenheit -459 And The Sixth State Of Matter
Everyone has heard of "Fahrenheit 451", the classic novel where big government gets its agenda by increasingly taking away rights in order to mandate fairness. This article has nothing to do...
World's smallest battery: Real-time observation of nanowire anode to help improve lithium batteries
A benchtop version of the world's smallest battery -- its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair -- has been created by a team of...
Getting Africa's big ideas out of the lab
Many Sub-Saharan African technologies are languishing in labs because of a failure to commercialise them, say Ken Simiyu, Abdallah S.Daar and Peter A. Singer.
Engineers discover graphene's weakness
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you owned a mechanical device made out of the strongest material known to mankind, wouldnt you want to know under what circumstances it might fail?
Iraq eyes 'Super Six' to boost oil output
BAGHDAD, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Iraq is concentrating its drive to quadruple its oil output on its six "super fields" which analysts say have the potential to produce in...
Technique turns computer chip defects into an advantage
Physicists have discovered that tiny defects inside a computer chip can be used to tune the properties of key atoms in the chip. The technique involves rearranging the holes left...
TMS 2011 Highlights 125th Anniversary of Hall-Heroult Aluminum Electrolysis Process
In honor of the 125th anniversary of this landmark materials science moment, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) will offer a plenary session featuring presentations by some of the...
Green: Wind Farm Would Link Northeastern Grids
A company unveils a proposal for an offshore wind farm that would sprawl across 270 square miles in Rhode Island Sound.