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SpaceX capsule has 'new car' smell, astronauts say (Update)

SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel smells like a new car, said astronauts at the International Space Station after opening the hatches Saturday following the spacecraft's landmark mission to the orbiting lab.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 11

The 2009 Ig Nobel prizewinners

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Ig Nobels are a highlight of the scientific calendar and award research that makes people laugh as well as think. The awards were presented last week at Harvard University in the U.S, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 0 weblog

'Voltage Patterning' could be next step in nanostructure lithography

(PhysOrg.com) -- "What you want these days is to have precise control of nanostructures. Using masks and optical techniques, it is possible to control how nanostructures grow for use in practical applications," David Field ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 4 feature

Carbon nanotubes as transistor material

Swiss researchers have built a transistor whose crucial element is a carbon nano-tube, suspended between two contacts, with outstanding electronic properties. A novel fabrication approach allowed the scientists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

New technology makes textiles permanently germ-free; targets health care-associated infections

A University of Georgia researcher has invented a new technology that can inexpensively render medical linens and clothing, face masks, paper towels -- and yes, even diapers, intimate apparel and athletic wear, including ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Fabricating 3D Photonic Crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- “In photonic crystals, the ability to control the structure of a material in full three dimensional space, allows you to control the way that light flows through it,” John Rogers tells PhysOrg.com. “This ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 feature

New method could lead to narrower chip patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Camera flash turns an insulating material into a conductor

An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Mexicans put faith in masks -- but do they work?

(AP) -- The cloth patches in green, blue and white are everywhere, clamped tight over the mouth and nose of teachers, toddlers, policemen and drunks. Even the statue at the church of St. Jude, patron of lost ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 12

New material for air cleaner filters that captures flu viruses

With flu season just around the corner, scientists are reporting development of a new material for the fiber in face masks, air conditioning filters and air cleaning filters that captures influenza viruses ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Apparent roadblock in the development of quantum lithography

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just when it began to appear that scientists had found a viable way around the problem of the blurring that occurs when using masks to create smaller and smaller silicon wafers for computer ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

SEMATECH Demonstrates Mask Pattern Alignment and Registration to Enable Double Patterning Lithography

SEMATECH and the Semiconductor Metrology Systems division from Carl Zeiss announced today that Zeiss' next-generation photomask registration and overlay metrology system has successfully passed a key development milestone. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Unmasked and vulnerable

Donning a face mask is an easy way to boost protection from severe respiratory illnesses such as influenza and SARS, new research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found, but convincing a reluctant public ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico

(AP) -- The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico's most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

U.S. faces widening information gap on nanotechnology

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the global nanotechnology industry continues to produce cutting-edge consumer products, the scientific community is leaving a key part of the U.S. public behind when sharing knowledge of this new field ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Mask

A mask is an article normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or entertainment. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes. They are usually worn on the face, although they may also be positioned for effect elsewhere on the wearer's body, so in parts of Australia giant totem masks cover the body, whilst Inuit women use finger masks during storytelling and dancing.

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