News tagged with scales
Researchers develop revolutionary technology for manufacturing micro-scale devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cranfield University has developed new technology that could significantly reduce the manufacturing costs of complex devices such as electronic noses that sniff out explosives and dangerous chemicals and ...
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Dental delight! Tooth of sea urchin shows formation of biominerals
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the most common minerals in biology, including those in bones and shells, have a mysterious structure: Their crystals are positioned in the same orientation, making them behave as ...
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios
Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter
(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have set themselves the goal of producing a new generation of super-strong, lightweight polymer composite materials for use in aircraft, road vehicles, trains and ferries.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 10, 2009 |
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'Shoot-'em-up' video game increases teenagers' science knowledge
While navigating the microscopic world of immune system proteins and cells to save a patient suffering from a raging bacterial infection, young teenage players of the "Immune Attack" video game measurably improved their understanding ...
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Research is shattering traditioinal notions of laser limits
Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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A (nano-) window that washes itself?
A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, detail ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Glasgow scientists predict the unpredictable to guide future nano-chip design
Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create ...
Nov 29, 2009 |
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Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories
(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of French researchers has recently demonstrated that it ...
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Highlight: Damping of acoustic vibrations in gold nanoparticles
Vibrations in nanostructures offer applications in molecular-scale biological sensing and ultrasensitive mass detection. To approach single-atom sensing, it is necessary to reduce the dimensions of the structures ...
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Swirling clouds over the South Pacific
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rosetta's OSIRIS imaging system spotted an anticyclone over the South Pacific on the morning of 13 November. The images show the scene roughly as a human eye would see it.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Earthquakes actually aftershocks of 19th century quakes
(PhysOrg.com) -- When small earthquakes shake the central U.S., citizens often fear the rumbles are signs a big earthquake is coming. Fortunately, new research instead shows that most of these earthquakes ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling
A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Micro Sparky: Engineering the tiniest Sun Devil
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Arizona State University engineering student may have found the tiniest - yet most cleverly inventive - way to show school spirit.
Oct 30, 2009 |
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