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Giant 'microscope' trained on glass transition
The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to a project led by Washington University in St. Louis physicist Ken Kelton to build an electrostatic levitation chamber that will be...
Sapphire: a Blue Gem for Greener Fuel
Sapphire, a brilliant blue gemstone most familiar in jewelry, may soon play an important part in making coal a cleaner fuel source.
Clean snowmobile challenge tests lower-emission, quieter sleds
Neither sun, nor mud, nor atypically warm March weather in northern Michigan could keep three hardy entries from completing the Endurance Run at the 2010 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge.
Madagascar connected to EASSy fiber optic cable
Madagascar has been connected to EASSy, a high bandwidth fibre optic cable that connects countries on Africa's eastern coast to the rest of the world, Telecom Malagasy (Telma) said Saturday.
Armor could form 'force field'
LONDON, March 20 (UPI) -- A new type of armor would use pulses of electrical energy to repel projectiles away from an armored vehicle, British scientists say.
A new way forward for nanocomposite nanostructures
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign recently reported a new technique for directly writing composites of nanoparticles and polymers. Recent years...
Designer nanomaterials on-demand
Composites are combinations of materials that produce properties inaccessible in any one material. A classic example of a composite is fibreglass - plastic fibres woven with glass to add strength...
The proof's in the bubbles
An imaging technique combining ultrasound and specially modified contrast agents may allow researchers to noninvasively detect cancer and show its progression, according to research published in the March issue of...
Behaviour of single protein observed in unprecedented detail by Stanford chemists
For the first time, researchers have been able to confine and study an individual protein, one that plays a key role in photosynthesis, without having to pin it down so...
U of Minnesota researcher discovers how electricity moves through cells
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a molecular image of a system that moves electrons between proteins in cells. The achievement is a breakthrough for biology and could...
Silver proves its mettle for nanotech applications
Scientists have introduced a new method to deterministically and precisely position silver nanoparticles onto self-assembling DNA scaffolds.
Breakthrough for the quantum simulator: When ultra-cold atoms can be anything
For the first time, physicists have succeeded in describing a quantum simulator realizable with current technology. The scientists have shown that the level of control needed for such a simulator...
Hydrate and bike like the wind
In bike racing and triathlons, aerodynamics can become an obsession. Because overcoming wind resistance is key, riders have for years shelled out big bucks for aero bike frames, aero handlebars,...
This Week in the Future, March 14-19, 2010
In this week's hottest new game, underground warbots search for a quantum kitty while avoiding land mines, collecting diamonds, and growing synthetic morphine. Welcome to the future. This week's future news: Most...
MIT Student Invention Deployed in Haiti to Save Lives
Hand-powered negative-pressure pump is designed to speed wound healing While many MIT students busily build break-dancing robots or websites that let your pets network better at doggie daycare, PhD candidate Danielle Zurovcik has...
Video: Is America ready for the future?
Michio Kaku, host of Sci Fi Science, talks about the future of science and technology in the United States. (Other) Michio Kaku - United States - Technology...
Pakistan gas pipeline is Iran's lifeline
TEHRAN, March 19 (UPI) -- As Iran braces for another broadside of economic sanctions over its nuclear program, Tehran moves closer to opening up a new lifeline – a...
Argonne scientists seek natural remediation for uranium-rich sites
While most of us are focused on life above ground, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy`s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are trying to understand the drama unfolding beneath our...
Chemist Monitors Nanotechnology's Environmental Impact
Interest in 'green' innovation means not just thinking big but also very, very, very small. At least that's the way Omowunmi Sadik, director of Binghamton University's Center for Advanced Sensors...
A mini-laboratory for all cases
Many illnesses can be reliably diagnosed through laboratory tests, but these in vitro analyses often use up valuable time. A system developed by Fraunhofer research scientists, which can carry out...
Higgs Mass Limits: 130-210 GeV !!
A brand new result in Higgs boson physics has been presented by my old-time CDF colleague Wei-Ming Yao at the Moriond QCD conference two days ago. It is the combination...
Perils of plastics: Risks to human health and the environment
Plastics surround us. A vital manufacturing ingredient for nearly every existing industry, these materials appear in a high percentage of the products we use every day. Although modern life would...
Pakistan plans electricity upgrades
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 19 (UPI) -- Pakistani energy producers could deliver as much as 2,500 megawatts of new energy to its beleaguered energy grid by June, utility directors said.
For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.
Sorting device for analysing biological reactions puts the power of a lab in a researcher's pocket
Fictional candy maker Willy Wonka called his whimsical device to sort good chocolate eggs from bad, an eggucator. Likewise, by determining what enzymes and compounds to keep and which to...
From 2-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter - and new questions
A worldwide team of researchers, including 10 from Texas A and M University, have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence immediately...
Strength is shore thing for sea shell scientists
A team of materials scientists and chemists have taken inspiration from sea shells found on the beach to create a composite material from dissimilar 'ingredients'...
Vigilance needed in nanotechnology
University of Calgary chemistry professor David Cramb is a step closer to helping solve a complex problem in nanotechnology: the impact nanoparticles have on human health and the environment...