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Graphene hybrid: One-atom-thick sheet offers new microelectronic possibilities
Researchers have found a way to stitch graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into a two-dimensional quilt that offers new paths of exploration for materials scientists.
Team Finds Way to Clean Up Coal, Harvest Hydrogen
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has awarded researchers at UT Dallas $1 million over three years to create a new class of membranes that...
Tech Gurus Give Roger Ebert His Voice Back
Legendary Film Critic Lost Voice Box, Lower Jaw to Cancer; But His Computer Will Soon Fill the Role
Dark matter lens used to measure age of universe
Astronomers from the United States and Europe have used a gravitational lens -- a distant, light-bending clump of dark matter -- to make a new estimate of the Hubble constant,...
Physicist writes a better formula to predict baseball success
(PhysOrg.com) -- Kerry Whisnant, Iowa State University physicist, studies the mysteries of the neutrino, the elementary particle that usually passes right through ordinary matter such as baseballs and home-run sluggers.
Colorado School of Mines Wins TMS Materials Bowl for Second Straight Year
The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) captured the trophy in the TMS 2010 Alcoa Materials Bowl, sponsored by Alcoa, for the second consecutive year.
Video: Mechanic Creates Flying Boat
"CBS News RAW": A New Zealand mechanic has created a machine that can be used on land, on water and in the air. It rides like a normal hovercraft but...
New approach could produce multifunction nanodevices
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has developed a new approach for creating powerful nanodevices, and their discoveries could pave the way for other researchers to...
Scientists make tiny new magnets from old bugs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Manchester have found a clean and green way of making tiny magnets for high tech gadgets - using natural bacteria that have been around for millions...
Template engineering demonstrates possibilities of new superconducting material
(PhysOrg.com) -- A breakthrough approach by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their collaborators in fabricating thin films of a new superconducting material has yielded promising results: The material has a...
Atmospheric nanoparticles impact health, weather professor says
Nanoparticles are atmospheric materials so small that they can't be seen with the naked eye, but they can very visibly affect both weather patterns and human health all over the...
Biology may not be so complex after all, physicist finds
Centuries ago, scientists began reducing the physics of the universe into key laws described by a handful of parameters. Such simple descriptions have remained elusive for complex biological systems --...
US launches new regulatory science programme
Agencies partner to create new programme to ensure better integration between cutting edge science and regulatory processes
Greener memory from random motion
Random thermal fluctuations in magnetic memory can be harnessed to reduce the energy required to store information, according to an experiment reported in the current issue of Physical Review Letters....
One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll
It sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from...
Medvedev pushes gas ties with France
PARIS, March. 1 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived Monday in Paris to shore up economic and energy relations with the French government.
Industry Sustainability Study
BASF, Air Liquide lead in creating sustainable value; Dow is last, BASF-funded study finds.
Mitsubishi shines with solar cells
TOKYO, March. 1 (UPI) -- Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said it would shoot for an annual photovoltaic capacity of 600 megawatts with its new production facility.
NPL makes light work of home grooming
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Dundee recently assessed the light emitted by a home-use intense-pulsed light (IPL) hair reduction system and confirmed that it is safe....
Long-distance quantum communication gets closer as physicists increase light storage efficiency by an order of magnitude
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new demonstration of reversible light storage, physicists have achieved storage efficiencies of more than a magnitude greater than those offered by previous techniques. The new method...
Tocris Bioscience Extends Novel Range of Fast, Light-Sensitive Caged Compounds Developed by Columbia University
Tocris Bioscience and Columbia University today announced that they have expanded their license agreement to include RuBi-Glutamate and RuBi-4AP, two additional novel caged compounds with significant applications for basic science...
Dhaka weighs trilateral gas pipeline
DHAKA, Bangladesh, March. 1 (UPI) -- The construction of a natural gas pipeline linking India to Myanmar could create a Central Asian energy hub and ease energy concerns, analysts...
Ownership/leasing of PET scanners by nonradiologists on the rise
Just as with computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the growth rate among non-radiologists who own or lease positron emission tomography (PET) equipment is also on the rise,...
Extreme Mobile: Fords to Feature Voice-Controlled Internet
Ford's second direction SYNC system taps the power of smartphones to control mobile Internet applications in the car.
Science Weekly podcast: Rockstar physicist Brian Cox; the Flat Earth Society; and Lord Robert Winston
We are privileged to have in the studio the man who dislikes being known as the rockstar physicist. Professor Brian Cox introduces his new BBC TV series Wonders of the Solar System...
CDF On Higgs Decays To Diphotons
The CDF collaboration has recently released new results from a search for what is probably the clearest signature of Higgs boson decay: pairs of high-mass photon candidates. I am very...
Novel MRI Sensor Provides Molecular View of the Brain
MIT neuroscientists have designed a new MRI sensor that responds to the neurotransmitter dopamine, an achievement that may significantly improve the specificity and resolution of future brain imaging procedures.
Reactions on DNA origami watched with AFM
Chemists in Denmark have for the first time imaged chemical reactions on a DNA origami scaffold so that they can precisely attach single molecules