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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, United Kingdom
A team of scientists at the Defence Science
and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), in collaboration with
Corus, have developed an advanced
armour steel called Super...
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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: James Cook University, Australia
You can tell when a fish has changed sex just by looking at its ears.
At least, Australian marine biologists Stefan Walker and Mark McCormick can - just having pioneered a new breakthrough for studying the behavior and productivity of fish...
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Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States
For centuries, engineers have bent and torn metals to test
their strength and ductility. Now, materials scientists at the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Engineering...
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Location: Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Researchers at the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Ames Laboratory have come up with a potentially perfect way to sort and distribute the...
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Location: University of Bath, United Kingdom
A discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently than before is announced in the journal Science this week.
Using a special hollow-core photonic crystal fibre, a team at the
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Location: NanoStructure Laboratory at Princeton UniversityEngineering Quadrangle, Olden Street,Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Creating ultrasmall grooves on microchips -- a key part of many modern
technologies -- is about to become as easy as making a sandwich, using a new
process invented by Princeton engineers.
The simple, low-cost technique results in the...
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Location: NIST Physics Laboratory,100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8400,Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8400, United States
For a variety of applications in physics and technology, ranging from quantum
information theory to telecommunications, it’s handy to have access to pairs of
photons created simultaneously, with a chosen energy. In a significant
improvement...
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Location: Chemistry & Biochemistry,Georgia Institute of Technology,901 Atlantic Drive,Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, United States
Producing three-dimensional polymer line
structures as small as 65 nanometers wide just became easier with new two-photon
absorbing molecules that are sensitive to laser light at short wavelengths,
allowing researchers to create them without...
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