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Liquid Or Solid? Charged Nanoparticles In Lipid Membrane Decide
Patchiness in phospholipid membranes is fundamental to their use as biomolecules and biosensors. Using charged nanoparticles, researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to stimulate patchiness...
Scientists in Mexico turn tequila into diamonds
Farmers in Mexico have been given another reason to grow agave, the cactus-like plant used to produce the country's most potent export. In the bar room equivalent of alchemy, scientists...
CO2 laser heat controller is developed
TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Israeli scientists say they've created a technique to control the heat generated by carbon dioxide lasers that are used to seal...
New method created to produce graphene
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a new process for mass producing the nanomaterial graphene in large quantities.
Scientists report a nanotechnology advance
ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have made a "major breakthrough" by creating a method to test nanoparticles and how they work in various...
Femtosecond, Chirped Laser Pulse Trains Could Reduce Decoherence
A physics professor is proposing to use femtosecond, chirped laser pulse trains to reduce decoherence. Controlling coherence can overcome current barriers in a variety of fields, from quantum computing to...
Nature’s Own Chemical Plant
Crude oil is getting more and more expensive, a fact clearly felt by the chemical industry. An alternative source of carbon is biomass, for instance colza and whey, which can...
Victoria Petite presents research at annual iDMAa conference
Victoria Petite '09, a Stevens Institute of Technology Art and Technology major, was invited to give a presentation at the annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (iDMAa) conference on...
Novel spoiler design for vans reduces fuel consumption
As if the drivers of mini vans and utility vehicles needed any more encouragement to drive fast between jobs, US researchers have designed a new rear spoiler for bluff-backed vehicles...
Almost frictionless
Lubricants in bearings and gear units ensure that not too much energy is lost through friction. Yet it still takes a certain percentage of the energy to compensate for friction...
'Super-microscope' opens at Isis
A new £200m neutron source at Isis, Oxfordshire, will allow scientists to probe matter at the atomic level.
Urea tanks on diesel trucks -- that's the law in the United States starting in 2010
Urea tanks will be standard equipment for most new diesel trucks, buses, cars, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) manufactured in the United States after Jan. 1, 2010. An automotive grade...
Blueprint to repel oil and water
The texture of surfaces could be designed so that both water and oil can bead up and thus flow off
Nature's 'fibre optics' experts
Sea sponges can beam light deep inside their bodies, and do so using the natural equivalent of fibre optic cables, scientists find.
Motorola Features First Public Safety Suite of 4G Wireless Broadband Applications Delivered on 700 MHz
Motorola, Inc. is demonstrating public safety wireless broadband applications over a live, 700 MHz wireless broadband system, which represents an industry first and an important milestone in advancing agency communications.
Radioactive legacy of 'lost bomb'
The 1968 crash of a B52, armed with nuclear warheads, has left a lasting legacy, according to those involved in the clear-up.
YouTube to host MGM films, TV shows
YouTube and Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) announced on Monday that the popular video-sharing website will host some full-length television shows and films from the famed Hollywood studio.
Plastic additives leach into medical experiments, research shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have shown that using plastic lab equipment can skew or ruin the results of medical experiments.
Lead-flapping objects experience less wind resistance than their trailing counterparts
It is commonly known that racing cars and bicyclists can reduce air resistance by following closely behind a leader, but researchers from New York University and Cornell University have found...
Tiny Loudspeakers
Flexible, stretchable carbon-nanotube-based devices emit sound via thermoacoustic effect
Modeling Ice Cream Production In The Search For Innovation
The production of ice cream, a seemingly simple product, brings into play a variety of complex hydrodynamic and thermic processes, with as yet poorly known interactions. To assist industry in...
Terrorism crackdown threatens chemisty hobbyists
Laws and regulations intended to crack down on terrorists, illicit drug manufacture, and other criminal activities are stifling an elite cadre of individuals who pursue chemistry as a hobby and...
The Safety Gap
China is becoming the biggest producer of pharmaceutical ingredients in the world but the F.D.A. inspects just a tiny fraction of China’s drug plants. Can we be sure what...
BP quits carbon capture competition
Just three consortia will now compete for UK government funding to build a CCS demonstration plant
Forensic work named top invention
A technique, developed in Northamptonshire, to find fingerprints on bullets is named a top invention of 2008.
Physicists use Bose-Einstein condensates to enhance factoring algorithm
(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretically, quantum computing has the potential to work more efficiently and accurately than classical computing for certain processes, such as factoring. But quantum methods are experimentally challenging, since...
Warehouses Made More Efficient
In warehouses, tidiness is a flexible term. Storage areas can be rearranged or moved around at any time. Forklift trucks will soon make it easy to follow the material flow...
Why two lobsters were saved from the boiling pot
Two of Scotland's most unusually coloured lobsters are saved from the boiling pot.