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Listening To Dark Matter: New Clues From Lab Deep Underground
Researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between the acoustic signals...
Scientists discover quantum mechanical 'hurricanes' form spontaneously
University of Arizona scientists experimenting with some of the coldest gases in the universe have discovered that when atoms in the gas get cold enough, they can spontaneously spin up...
More Flexible Method Floated To Produce Biofuels, Electricity
Researchers are proposing a new "flexible" approach to producing alternative fuels, hydrogen and electricity from municipal solid wastes, agricultural wastes, forest residues and sewage sludge that could supply up to...
Foamy Invention Could Save Energy and Lives
An engineer has devised a brand new material that can save energy and lives.
Opinion: Re-starting the engines of innovation
Dr Terry Cutler reflects on the Review of the National Innovation System and how long-term inaction on our failing system is putting Australia’s economic future at risk.
Super strong adhesive is created
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've created an adhesive that's 10 times stronger than the force used by geckos to stick to surfaces and...
Self-healing plastic needs food additive
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Oct. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have combined a food additive with a solvent to achieve nearly 100 percent efficiency in creating self-healing plastic.
Graffitti from 1843 Key to Mysteries Investigated in LHC
Some of Fields medalist Alain Connes??? revolutionary ideas shed light on how to understand the ???zoo??? of elementary particles thrown up by accelerators like the LHC. If Connes is right,...
Company says shoes can power gadgets
Tired of your iPod running out of power? A Japanese company says it has found a way to charge portable gadgets just by walking.
Long-life light illuminates cells
Platinum-based dyes for cell imaging glow for hundreds of times longer than conventional probes
Creating Wireless Network Using Visible Light
Researchers are developing a new generation of wireless communications based on visible light instead of radio waves. This capability would piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes or...
PHOTOS: Best Microscopic Images of 2008 Announced
A beetle dances on a pin, nanotubes glow like a microscopic sun, drugs yield crystal rainbows, and more in the top ten micro-photos of the year.
Gold Nanostars Outshine the Competition
(PhysOrg.com) -- Novel nanoparticles being tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have researchers seeing stars. In a recent paper,* NIST scientists used surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to...
Einstein's Relativity Survives Neutrino Test
Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't...
First Tunable, ‘Noiseless` Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the...
Paperwork: Buckypapers Clarify Electrical, Optical Behavior of Nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes—sorted by centrifuge for length—materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made some of the most precise measurements...
Smart fabrics, the new black
(PhysOrg.com) -- Smart fabrics and intelligent textiles - material that incorporates cunning molecules or clever electronics - is thriving and European research efforts are tackling some of the...
Computer circuit builds itself
Organic molecules organize themselves to form a bridge between electrodes.
'Black silicon' boosts solar cell efficiency
Rough surface means black silicon traps wide range of light frequencies, says company after decade of development
Spotting Nascent Protein Crystals
Optical technique reduces background noise and could cut screening times and costs
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance to expand in 2009
To better serve its authors and subscribers, the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (JMEP), published by ASM International, The Materials Information Society, is expanding to nine issues in 2009.
Keeping others going has company surging
When the plug was pulled on southeastern Michigan five years ago, sending the area into a historic power outage, things kept humming at a Southfield, Mich., company.
Teaching Nano to Swim
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ayusman Sen, head of the Department of Chemistry at Penn State, makes tiny, metallic objects do something extraordinary -- he makes them swim. Sen's work is driven by...
The Day the World Didn't End
Here's what didn't happen on Sept. 10th:The world did not end. Switching on the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of...
New Apple laptops get glass trackpad, Nvidia chip
(AP) -- Apple Inc.'s newest MacBook laptops will have a larger glass "multi-touch" trackpad and a faster graphics chipset from Nvidia. The lowest-priced machine will cost $999, $100 less...
Interview: A total mismatch
Penny Brothers tells Michael Brown about porphyrins and their potential role in neutron capture therapy
Radiopharmaceutical shortage raises long-term supply questions
Temporary blip in Europe’s supply of radioactive isotopes for medical imaging highlights ageing nuclear reactor network
Researchers find new use for biomass
Scientists have created a catalyst that converts a common form of biomass into a chemical with a variety of industrial applications.