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Image: Dream Chaser buffet wind tunnel model

(Phys.org) -- The Dream Chaser model with its Atlas V launch vehicle is undergoing final preparations at the Aerospace Composite Model Development Section's workshop for buffet tests at the Transonic Dynamics ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nanowires have superior electrical, mechanical properties and can be put to good use in pressure sensors

Miniaturized pressure sensors are widely used in mechanical and biomedical applications, for example, in gauging fuel pressure in cars or in monitoring blood pressure in patients. Woo-Tae Park and co-workers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New technique produces free-standing piezoelectric ferroelectric nanostructures from PZT material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a “soft template infiltration” technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from PZT ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Award-winning energy harvester brings practical applications closer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the idea of harvesting ambient energy from the environment and using it to generate electricity is alluring, most of the technology so far is capable of generating only very small ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Laser light used to cool object to quantum ground state

For the first time, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration with a team from the University of Vienna, have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The forces of attraction: How cells change direction

Many cell types in higher organisms are capable of implementing directed motion in response to the presence of certain chemical attractants in their vicinity. A team led by Dr. Doris Heinrich of the Faculty of Physics and ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lasers could produce much sought-after band gaps in graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most often-cited features of graphene – the two-dimensional crystal lattice made of carbon – is its unique electronic properties. Many of these electronic properties make ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Smart materials for high-tech products

Flexible and independently operating "smart materials" can adapt to changing conditions with high speed. The Fraunhofer Adaptronics Alliance is presenting promising solutions at Hannover Messe (April 4-8), ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Student innovation at Rensselaer transmits data and power wirelessly through submarine hulls

Steel walls are no match for Tristan Lawry. The doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed and demonstrated an innovative new system that uses ultrasound to simultaneously transmit ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7

Shedding light on the elegant mechanisms that control the push and shove of cells in living organisms

The many amazing photomicrographs on display at the entrance to the Electron Microscope Laboratory in the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) were all taken by laboratory leader Shigenobu Yonemura ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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