Location: Illinois, United States
“Ferroelectric materials are interesting scientifically, and, while they are
used for some things now, they are potentially useful for even more applications
in the future,” Brian Stephenson says. Stephenson is a scientist at...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: Johansburg, South Africa
Recent studies into the use of synthetic fibres to improve the longevity of
concrete applications have yielded results that are set to make a positive
impact on the South African construction industry, reports the Cement and
Concrete...
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Location: California, United States
If you could remove the layers of circuitry in your computer and touch the main processor while it's running a video, you would feel its blistering heat, which can exceed 100 °C. Such heat, a natural by-product of shuttling electrons
through...
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Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb-like structure,
has captured worldwide interest because of its attractive electronic properties. Now, by adding hydrogen to graphene, researchers at the University of...
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Location: Stanford, United Kingdom
By manipulating a cloud of electrons to create a hologram, a team of Stanford University has managed to enter two letters in a volume smaller than an atom. An exploit laboratory opens up new prospects in the long term.
The smallest...
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Location: Florida, United States
Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) have developed a wireless network that evaluates walking patterns in an attempt to detect early signs of dementia.
Currently, doctors ask patients to answer a series of questions...
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
On a global scale, lighting accounts for about 25% of the total consumption of
electricity. In the current context of saving energy and fight against global
warming, the illumination light emitting diodes (LED or LED in English) is a
very...
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Location: Southampton University, United Kingdom
While well known for its lack of accuracy – to the point where its usage is largely inadmissible in a court of law – the contentious reliability of the lie-detector test could be set for something of a boost thanks to the creation...
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Location: Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica, Hong Kong
Physicists Hung-Yao Chen and Hu Chin-Kun of the Institute of Physics of Academia
Sinica have developed a new method of optical communications based on chaos
theory, also called communication chaos in order to achieve secure optical...
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Location: North Carolina, United States
A new light-bending material has brought scientists one step closer to creating
a cloaking device that could hide objects from sight.
Beyond possible military applications, it also might have a very practical use
by making mobile...
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Location: McGill University, Canada
McGill researchers discover a mutation that promotes the metabolism of fat instead of storing
According to researchers at McGill University, the recent discovery of a
previously unknown mutation in a common nematode, or round...
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Location: Pisa, Italy
Researchers are looking to put micro-robots to work as internal surgeons. The hope is that some of these tablet-shaped robots could perform certain gastrointestinal operations without injuring the patient's body. The process
would begin with...
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Location: Netherlands Institute of Meteorology, Netherlands
Research at the Technical University of Delft led to improved knowledge of the clouds, a poorly integrated into current models of climate. The researcher Thijs Heus addressed the issue by a combination of computer simulations and
measurements...
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Location: Pittsburgh, United States
ABSTRACT
Historically, coal miners have known that roof shales can
deteriorate in contact with humid mine air, causing massive...
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Location: Max Planck Institute, United States
Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical results...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human.
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Location: Michigan, United States
In recent years, physicists have devised numerous ways to use the oddities of quantum mechanics to transmit and process information.
Now a team of researchers has announced an important step toward using this quantum information:...
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Gecko feet have long been a source of inspiration to scientists striving to make superstrong, reusable adhesives. Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found a new way to make such an adhesive grip and release as
required, using...
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Location: Taiwan, Taiwan
This is the end of a controversy a century old and on the propagation of light in the dielectric. A group of Taiwanese researchers has vindicated the theoretical physicist Max Abraham against the great mathematician Hermann
Minkowski.
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