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An easy way to see the world's thinnest material
Scientists have used the dye fluorescein to create a new imaging technique to view graphene.
Panasonic Will Market First Li-Ion Storage Battery for Home Use in 2011
The battery could power zero-emissions homes Bringing power storage to the people, Panasonic will bring a home-use lithium-ion storage cell to market in fiscal 2011, making it possible for homes to store a...
Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells
Scientists have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips. The researchers have shown that they can build stackable memory based on "ionic memory technology,"...
Plastic bags recycled into batteries
ARGONNE, Ill., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Plastic bags found in abundance at grocery stores could be recycled into carbon nanotubes, a component in lithium ion batteries, an Illinois scientist...
Scientists Harness Bacteria to Turn Microscopic Gears
Scientists have harnessed the power of bacteria to turn gears and power simple machines.
Caltech physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behaviour in small mechanical systems...
Newsmaker of the year: The power player
As a physicist, he found a way to capture atoms and won a Nobel prize. Now he is marshalling scientists and engineers to transform the world's biggest energy economy. Eric...
Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images
At Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy it was revealed that single-stranded DNA can disperse bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes into individual tubes and serve as guideposts for synthesizing...
Graphite oxide at high pressure opens a road to new amazing nano-materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- New results by scientists at Umeľ University, Sweden, show that not only water but also alcohol solvents can be inserted to expand the structure of graphite oxide under...
Intel Announces Next-Generation Atom Platform (w/ Video)
Intel Corporation announced new Intel Atom processors today that feature integrated graphics built directly into the CPU, enabling improved performance and smaller, more energy-efficient designs in a new generation of...
Discovering addiction clues could help smokers kick the habit
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever tried to quit smoking, understanding how you got hooked in the first place probably seems irrelevant. But University of Nebraska-Lincoln psychologist Rick Bevins believes those...
Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use the unique...
Silicon technology offers extended X-ray vision of high-energy cosmos
(PhysOrg.com) -- As elements of the integrated circuits running our computers, phones and electronics, silicon wafers are everywhere. An ESA-led effort is establishing an out-of-this-world use...
Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy`s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles...
Gas resumes to Ingushetia
MALGOBEK, Russia, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Natural gas supplies to the Russian republic of Ingushetia are "normalized," taking regional consumers out of the cold, emergency officials said.
Iran testing new centrifuges
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iran is in the process of testing a new generation of uranium centrifuges as it moves toward a 20-percent enrichment threshold, atomic directors said.
Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights
(AP) -- To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.
Smashing trash with solar power
They seem to turn heads wherever they're installed: new solar-powered trash compactors that are meant to save time and energy.
What's in store in 2010?
From new data at the Large Hadron Collider to deep research budget cuts in the UK and Japan, 2010 could be both the best and worst of times
New Lens Could Produce Better Camera Images
A lens made with man-made materials could produce sharper wide angle images.
More precise measurements of the W boson
(PhysOrg.com) -- "The W boson is one of the very few major building blocks of matter," Dmitri Denisov tells PhysOrg.com. "It is a member of a family of particles that...
Next generation lens promises more control
Duke University engineers have created a new generation of lens that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications or radar systems to provide a wide field of view and greater...
Boston University reseachers develop faster, cheaper DNA sequencing method
(BOSTON) EMBARGOED UNTIL 1 P.M. EST 12/20/09 -- Boston University biomedical engineers have devised a method for making future genome sequencing faster and cheaper by dramatically reducing the amount of DNA required, thus...
Evanescent waves bring new window into the nanoworld
Electrons and light team up in new microscopy technique to image nanostructures
Nocturnal wind maximum mapped for first time
On beautiful, sunny days with quiet weather conditions a strong wind develops in the evening at a height of about 200 meters. Scientists have now mapped how such a powerful...
First LHC Results!
This morning LHC machinists, experimentalists from the LHC experiments, as well as other CERN personnel gathered in the Main Auditorium at CERN to give their end-of-year report. After a LHC...
Hot Electrons Could Double Solar Cell Power Efficiency
Scientists have experimentally verified a theory suggesting that hot electrons could double the output of solar cells. The researchers, from Boston College, have built solar cells that successfully use hot...
Panasonic Starts Mass-Production of High-Capacity 3.1 Ah Lithium-ion Battery
Panasonic Corporation developed a 18650-type high-capacity 3.1 Ah lithium-ion battery and began mass production of the battery this December. The new 3.1 Ah battery has a nickel positive electrode and...