News tagged with film reviews

Scientists investigate mystery of telephone cord buckles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ranging in thickness from a few nanometers to several micrometers, thin films and coatings play a role in a wide variety of applications. The reflective metal layer on a mirror, the coatings ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Compression experiments lead to shocking results

Using acceleration 1 trillion times faster than a jet fighter in a maximum turn, researchers have gained new insight into dynamic compression of aluminum at ultrahigh strain rates.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

An electronic bucket brigade could boost solar cell voltages

If solar cells could generate higher voltages when sunlight falls on them, they'd produce more electrical power more efficiently. For over half a century scientists have known that ferroelectrics, materials ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Expanding the degrees of surface freezing

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of the quest to form perfectly smooth single-molecule layers of materials for advanced energy, electronic, and medical devices, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists solve decade-long mystery of nanopillar formations

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (24) | comments 2

Movie theaters cut print show times as Web gains

(AP) -- Filmgoers who have long turned to the local newspaper to find theaters and show times for movies may have to start looking elsewhere as theater chains rethink the value of paper and ink in a digital age.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Forget the freezer: Research suggests novel way to control water behavior

Researchers may be able to "freeze" water into a solid, not by cooling but by confining it to narrow spaces less than one-millionth of a millimeter wide, according to new results from an interdisciplinary team of scientists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Shocking: Environmental chemistry affects ferroelectric film polarity the same way electric voltage does

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Ferroelectric materials are interesting scientifically, and, while they are used for some things now, they are potentially useful for even more applications in the future,” Brian Stephenson tells PhysOrg.com. Stephe ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2 feature