News tagged with colored oil

Oil-based color pixels could let you watch videos on e-paper

(PhysOrg.com) -- By rapidly manipulating colored oil droplets stacked on top of each other, a new electrowetting (EW) technique could lead to the development of electronic paper displays that can produce high-resolution ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (33) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature




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Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around ...

Technology / Engineering

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Social media used to collect information on marine wilderness

(Phys.org) -- Researchers from Murdoch University's Cetacean Research Unit are working with colleagues from Duke University in the US and Marine Ventures Foundation on an innovative project that will use social ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Feathers show their true colors

(Phys.org) -- For millennia birds have been prized, even hunted, for their beautiful plumage but what makes their feathers so colorful?

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Going ape for apps: young orangutan plays with iPad

The young orangutan reaches his hand through the cage and rubs his knuckles over an iPad, drawing wide colors across the screen with his favorite app.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 19

New research reveals food ingredients most prone to fraudulent economically motivated adulteration

In new research published in the April Journal of Food Science, analyses of the first known public database compiling reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food highlight the most fraud-prone ingred ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Earth Institute researchers develop interactive map of NYC's energy use

Midtown Manhattan is red hot; Greenpoint a cool yellow and beige. It’s all a matter of energy: A new interactive, color-coded map created by a team at Columbia’s engineering school allows viewers to pinpoint and comp ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Meet Kimberly Casey: Studying how debris influences glaciers

Kimberly Casey is a glaciologist who spends a fair amount of time in the office analyzing satellite data. But when she talks about her fieldwork on remote glaciers, one suspects she could do pretty well in a triathlon, too. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Building lightweight trains

The less trains weigh, the more economical they are to run. A new material capable of withstanding even extreme stresses has now been developed. It is suitable for a variety of applications, not least diesel ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study reveals unprecedented impact of Deepwater Horizon on deep ocean

Scientists report they have "compelling evidence" that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has impacted deep-sea corals. Their study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences utiliz ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Oldest US natural history museum offers rare peek

(AP) -- The Academy of Natural Sciences has never been one to brag. Its 225,000 annual visitors may associate the nation's oldest natural history museum solely with dioramas and dinosaurs, but behind the ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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