Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method of compacting carbon nanotubes into dense bundles. These tightly packed bundles are efficient conductors and could one day replace copper as the ...
Nanophysics
Jun 6, 2007
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Government officials have acknowledged the transportation system’s vulnerability to terrorist attacks. Bridges are among the most vulnerable. Because of this reality, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia are ...
Other
Jun 6, 2007
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Impressive antlers may be the most eye-catching attribute of the male red deer, but it's the quality of a stag's mating call that attracts the female of the species, a new study from the University of Sussex, published today ...
Jun 6, 2007
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Philips today announced that it has broken the one-terabyte storage barrier with the launch of the SPD5130 external hard drive.
Hardware
Jun 6, 2007
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For the past six months a team of MIT students has spent hundreds of hours--many late at night--converting a sleek Porsche 914 into an electric vehicle. Their goal? To demonstrate the viability of advanced electric vehicle ...
Engineering
Jun 6, 2007
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Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical lore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard ESA’s environmental satellite, Envisat. The ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 6, 2007
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An institute that promotes the “beauty, power and universality” of mathematical thought has awarded the Clay Research Prize to Alex Eskin, Professor in Mathematics at the University of Chicago.
Mathematics
Jun 6, 2007
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Scientists have discovered a gene that allows plants to grow better in low nutrient conditions and even enhance their growth through sodium uptake, according to a report published online this week in The EMBO Journal.
Jun 6, 2007
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Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive $1.98 million from the U.S. Department of Energy over the next three years to emulate nature’s use of enzymes to convert chemicals to energy, PNNL announced ...
Jun 6, 2007
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Researchers have a better understanding of how the crystal structure of some metals becomes stable through magnetism.
Condensed Matter
Jun 6, 2007
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