Farmers treat seeds chemically in order to rid them of pest infestation. Now researchers have developed a method that kills pathogens without harming the environment. Pioneering seed suppliers are already ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 05, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Iridescence, or sheen that shifts color depending on your viewing angle, is pretty in peacock feathers. But it's been a nuisance for engineers trying to mimic the birds' unique color mechanism to make high-resolution, reflective, ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Feb 05, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers from Institut für Kernphysik in Germany, working with colleagues from Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, have succeeded in building a compact neutron source small enough ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 01, 2013 4.1 / 5 (8) 2 |

(Phys.org)—The way electrons move within and between molecules, transferring energy as they go, plays an important role in many chemical and biological processes, such as the conversion of sunlight to energy ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 31, 2013 4.6 / 5 (5) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale, holds great promise for everything from incredibly fast computers to chemical sensors that can sniff out cancer cells. ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jan 11, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

A laser capable of working in the terahertz range – that of long-wavelength light from the far infrared to 1 millimetre – enables the 'fingerprint' of, say, a drug to be examined better than can be done ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 19, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org)—A research team in Italy has succeeded in capturing a high contrast image of a band of DNA fiber – the closest anyone has ever come to taking a photograph of a single strand of DNA. The team ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Dec 03, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 0 |

Electrons move extremely rapidly inside atoms and molecules (the order of magnitude is the attosecond, i.e. 10-18 of a second). One way to observe these phenomena is to use isolated ultrashort pulses of light, which are ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Nov 30, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

To look at small objects typically requires big machines. For example, the study of single atoms with a laser requires x-ray radiation of such high energy that it is only produced by accelerating electrons ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 30, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org)—Physicists working at the Institute for Quantum Electronics in Switzerland have succeeded in building an apparatus that has allowed for the observation of the drop of resistance in the flow of ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 29, 2012 5 / 5 (5) 2 |

(Phys.org)—Two teams working independently have succeeded in entangling a single electron spin with a single photon in a solid-state platform. Both teams describe their process and results in papers they've ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Nov 15, 2012 5 / 5 (8) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Techniques for the manipulation of matter at the nano scale are a step further ahead with the publication of new results from a UTS research group.

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Nov 12, 2012 5 / 5 (9) 2 |

Imec announces that it has designed and fabricated an electrostatic micro-lens (lenslet) array for KLA-Tencor's anticipated Reflective Electron Beam Lithography (REBL) tool. The REBL technology potentially enables a high ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Nov 06, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Vortex beams, rotating like a tornado, offer completely new possibilities for electron microscopy. A method of producing extremely intense vortex beams has been discovered at the Vienna University of Technology ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 05, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 2 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Arizona State University have used an environmental scanning transmission electron microscope (ESTEM) to control the ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

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