Archive: 10/12/2006
Chemists reinvent the science and industry of making plastics
Chemists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a new process for free radical polymerization, the chemical reaction responsible for creating an enormous array of everyday plastic products, from Styrofoam cups to ...
Oct 12, 2006 |
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How can we make nanoscale capacitors even smaller?
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered what limits our ability to reduce the size of capacitors, often the largest components in integrated circuits, down to the nanoscale. They have answered a 45-year old question: ...
Oct 12, 2006 |
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Polarized particles join toolbox for building unique structures
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created polarized, spherical particles that spontaneously self-assemble into clusters with specific shapes and distributions of electric charge. ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2006 |
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New motor first to be powered by living bacteria
A new motor designed by scientists from Japan offers the best of both worlds: the living and the non-living. The group built a hybrid micromachine that is powered by gliding bacteria which travels on an inorganic ...
Biology /
Oct 12, 2006 |
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We Need Better Yardstick to Measure Digital Divide, Researcher Says
Relying on easy-to-measure factors like how many Internet access points a place has presents a simplistic picture of today’s digital divide. A more sophisticated approach is needed to get an honest assessment of who is being ...
Biology /
Oct 12, 2006 |
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Flies in a spider's web: Galaxy caught in the making
In nature spiders earn our respect by constructing fascinating, well-organised webs in all shapes and sizes. But the beauty masks a cruel, fatal trap. Analogously, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found ...
Oct 12, 2006 |
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