Location: Cambridge, United States
In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally
occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other
large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural
materials and...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Much of our knowledge about molecular structure and reactivity is based on
interpreting how molecules interact with light. In particular, time-resolved
pump-probe studies where a first “pump” laser pulse initiates a dynamical
event,...
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Location: Chalmer, Sweden
Abstract :
In case of a canister failure in a deep bedrock repository for nuclear fuel,
the release of radiotoxic nuclides to the groundwater will depend on the
chemical environment near the fuel surface. Due to the presence of large...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid
transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance
that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries -- for cell phones and other
devices -- that...
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
The thin-film EL devices use perovskite oxides, typified by barium titanate
(BaTiO3), which has long been used as capacitor material for
electronic circuits. With an emission starting voltage of ≈10 V AC, the power
source...
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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: Bonn, Germany
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn,
Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have
detected two of the most complex molecules yet discovered in interstellar space:...
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Location: San Diego, United States
Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the
existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold
fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group of scientists, for...
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Location: Boston, United States
Abstract:
An engineered metamaterial proved it can function as a state-of-the-art device
in the complex terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, setting a
standard of performance for modulating tiny waves of radiation,...
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Location: Clausthal, Germany
Since 1970, scientists have been working with “optical tweezers” - lasers
that move microscopic amounts of matter using forces originating from the light
matter interaction. Now, for the first time, researchers have demonstrated...
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Location: Nanjing, China
A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype in 2006, a team of Duke University...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
The laws of physics dictate that traditional lenses can't focus light onto a spot narrower than half the wavelength of the light. But converting the light into waves called plasmons can get around this limitation. Plasmonic lithography, which uses...
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Location: 925 Chestnut Street, Suite 110,Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
A novel angled gantry approach to
coronary CT
angiography reduced radiation exposure to the breast by more than 50%,
according to Thomas Jefferson University...
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Location: Canary Islands, Spain
A team of researchers led by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary
Islands (IAC) has managed to detect naphthalene, a molecule key to the
development of life in space, 700 light years from Earth.
This molecule is one of the...
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Location: 445 N. Fifth Street,Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States
Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today
announced a new approach to treating endometrial cancer patients that not only
stops the growth of tumors, but kills the cancer cells.
In a potentially major...
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Location: University of Florida, United States
Cymbals don’t clash of their own accord – in our world,
anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed
almost infinitesimally close together, spontaneously attract each other.
What...
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Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States
A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and
experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might
be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide
captured...
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Location: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Rutgers University, United States
A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward
helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the
universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted since the “big
bang,” and...
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Location: University of California - San Diego, United States
A breakthrough discovery at University of
California - San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to
squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic
devices....
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Location: McGill University, Canada
Researchers at McGill
University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several
countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of
general...
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