Latest science news in Physics & Chemistry
Air Force launches suborbital ballistic missile in weapons test
An unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile blasted off early Friday (Sept. 17) in the latest successful weapons test by the U.S. Air Force. Intercontinental ballistic missile -...
Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could provide mega-sized data storage
Researchers have discovered an entire new class of phase-change materials that could be applied to PCM and optical data storage technologies. The new materials, alloys of a metal and semiconductor,...
'Nanosprings' offer improved performance in biomedicine, electronics
Researchers have reported the successful loading of biological molecules onto "nanosprings" -- a type of nanostructure that has gained significant interest in recent years for its ability to maximize surface...
European atom-smashers to go dark in 2012
CERN, Europe's particle research center, unveiled budget cuts Friday that will force it to close its accelerators for a year in 2012. The plan reflects little change in the status...
Physicists cross hurdle in quantum manipulation of matter
Finding ways to control matter at the level of single atoms and electrons fascinates many scientists and engineers because the ability to manipulate single charges and single magnetic moments (spins)...
UCLA physicists control chemical reactions mechanically
UCLA physicists have taken a significant step in controlling chemical reactions mechanically, an important advance in nanotechnology, UCLA physics professor Giovanni Zocchi and colleagues report...
Couple Accused of Passing Nuclear Arms Secrets
A physicist and his wife were charged with a criminal conspiracy to help Venezuela build an atom bomb.
Tying string theory together: A new book attempts to explain string theory to the masses
Reality comes in layers. Everything we see in the world around us, scientists tell us, is made of atoms and combinations of atoms called molecules. Atoms are themselves made of...
Metal Smasher Makes Aluminum as Strong as Steel
Technique could produce a cheap alternative to titanium for aircraft and body armor
ORNL Strengthens DOE-Funded Clean Vehicles Team
As a member of the recently announced clean vehicles consortium, part of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are focusing on a suite of technologies...
Nanohorse Hampered By Its Gait
A "bipedal" molecule does a better job than a "four-legged" molecule moving across a surface.
Light Controls Surface-Charging
Electrostatics: Method could reveal mechanism of ubiquitous phenomenon behind static cling, copy machines.
Mechanical logic gate: Could levers replace transistors?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in the Victorian period, Charles Babbage created a mechanical computer that made use of levers and cogs to get data moving. These days, though, our computers are...
Santa Claus and The Grid | Lily Asquith
Lily Asquith: The world wide web was famously invented at Cern to help international collaborators share information. The Grid is there to help them share computing power, tooI have recently been "submitting to...
Enough Uranium for Now, Analysts Say
A study by M.I.T. suggests that uranium supplies should suffice for new reactor construction but warns against building factories that prepare plutonium for reuse.
Major report released by MIT: No shortage of uranium for nuclear energy, more research needed
Uranium supplies will not limit the expansion of nuclear power in the U.S. or around the world for the foreseeable future, according to a major new interdisciplinary study produced under...
Novel chemistry amplifies ability of nanoparticles to detect rare cells
One of the most promising characteristics of nanoparticles as diagnostic agents is the ability to attach to the nanoparticles surface any of a wide variety of targeting molecules that can...
Optical chip enables new approach to quantum computing
An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol has developed a new approach to quantum computing that could soon be used to perform complex calculations that...
Aerosols control rainfall in the rainforest
A team of environmental engineers, who might better be called 'archeologists of the air,' have, for the first time, isolated aerosol particles in near pristine pre-industrial conditions...
New Energy Board Hears Score: Bureaucracy 1, Chu 0
Steven Koonin, the Department of Energy's (DOE's) undersecretary for science, had a blunt assessment...
W Plus Multijet Production Pinned Down
A very important new theoretical study has appeared last Tuesday in the hep-ph preprint arxiv. Titled "Precise Predictions on W+4 Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider", it is signed...
Q. and A.: Hastening the Energy Revolution
The head of the International Energy Agency says more incentives are needed to speed a shift away from reliance on fossil fuels.
How does Prozac act? By acting on the microRNA
The adaptation mechanisms of the neurons to antidepressants has, until now, remained enigmatic. Research, published this week by teams of Odile Kellermann and of Jean-Marie Launay (Inserm, Paris), sheds new...
Research aims to lighten load carried by soldiers
A University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering professor and a team of researchers nationwide were recently awarded a five-year, $6.25 million grant to develop a greener, lighter-weight...
New laser hides aircraft from missiles
A new infrared laser defense system for aircraft won't blow up incoming fire in mid-air, but it will protect them by blinding heat-sensitive missiles. Laser -...
TMS Launches Second Phase of "Transformational Energy Materials" Project
Leading materials science and engineering (MSE) experts from across the nation will begin their work in Pittsburgh on September 16 and 17 as members of the Technical Working Groups (TWGs)...
Panasonic to start commercial shipment of 32-nm generation LSI
Panasonic Corporation has successfully developed a new mass-production technology for leading-edge 32-nm generation system LSIs, and is ready to ship system LSIs (model number: MN2WS0150) based on this technology from...
An ideal candidate for sustainable catalysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of environmentally friendly and efficient catalysts is a major challenge in the field of chemical research, with the focus now being placed on the search for...