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Diamond used to produce graphene quantum dots and nano-ribbons of controlled structure

Kansas State University researchers have come closer to solving an old challenge of producing graphene quantum dots of controlled shape and size at large densities, which could revolutionize electronics and optoelectronics.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nicira promises virtual networks will transform networking

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the past four years, founders of the start-up company Nicira have been developing cutting-edge software that they predict will transform the networking technology underlying the Internet. ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Electronic life on the edge: Scientists discover the edge states of graphene nanoribbons

(PhysOrg.com) -- As far back as the 1990s, long before anyone had actually isolated graphene – a honeycomb lattice of carbon just one atom thick – theorists were predicting extraordinary properties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Emerging technologies may fuel revolutionary horizontal space launcher

(PhysOrg.com) -- As NASA studies possibilities for the next launcher to the stars, a team of engineers from Kennedy Space Center and several other field centers are looking for a system that turns a host of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 12, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (41) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Laser, electric fields combined for new 'lab-on-chip' technologies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing new technologies that combine a laser and electric fields to manipulate fluids and tiny particles such as bacteria, viruses and DNA for a range of potential applications, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cutting-edge study shows teeth can be used to determine what has been eaten

You are what you eat is truism that has been given new impetus by 'cutting edge' research led by the University of Leicester that reveals your teeth are literally shaped by your food.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Engineers work to ease Internet data flow as demand for video grows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and Skype have become household names as demand soars for movies, television shows, amateur videos, and video calls delivered via the Internet and mobile networks. As ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify molecular basis for DNA breakage

Scientists from the Hebrew University have identified the molecular basis for DNA breakage, a hallmark of cancer cells. The findings of this research have just been published in the journal Molecular Cell.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Adding up photons with a transition edge sensor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated that a superconducting detector called a transition edge sensor (TES) is capable of counting the number of as many as 1,000 photons in a single pulse of light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Samsung Intros Industry’s First Higher-performing 20nm-class NAND Flash Memory

Samsung Electronics announced the industry's first production of 20 nanometer class NAND chips for use in Secure Digital (SD) memory cards and embedded memory solutions. Based on this cutting-edge technology, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Useful, useless and unusual at US gadget show

Cutting-edge technology grabbed the headlines at the premier US gadget show here but the showrooms also featured products better described as useful, useless and downright unusual.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How flies set their cruising altitude

Insects in flight must somehow calculate and control their height above the ground, and researchers reporting online on August 19 in Current Biology, have new insight into how fruit flies do it. The answer ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Santa's Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick's Christmas Magic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (26) | comments 7

Edge detection crucial to eyesight

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a major advance in understanding how our eyesight works, Australian scientists have shown that birds' amazing flight and landing precision relies on their ability to detect edges.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1