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Batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be...

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:: 16 November, 2009
Eleven German-French research teams headed for the starting line on October 27, 2007 in Paris. Their goal: to build bilateral collaborations and to...

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:: 16 November, 2009
With the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center (Florida) on 16 November 2009 at 14:28 local time (20:28 Central European...

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:: 13 November, 2009
Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish...

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:: 13 November, 2009
Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle...

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:: 13 November, 2009
There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon...

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:: 11 November, 2009
In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the...

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:: 11 November, 2009
Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional...

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:: 11 November, 2009
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of...

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:: 11 November, 2009
Converting sunlight to electricity might no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs.
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:: 10 November, 2009
A new method for assembling carbon nanotubes has been used to create fibers hundreds of meters long. Individual carbon nanotubes are strong,...

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:: 09 November, 2009
At the German Aerospace Center (DLR) facility in Lampoldshausen, a new solar water-cleaning system is using sunlight to remove organic and...

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:: 08 November, 2009
A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible.
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:: 08 November, 2009
By building thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates, researchers have made electronics that almost completely dissolve inside the...

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:: 07 November, 2009
The manufacture of parts by compaction and sintering involves filling a die with metal powder. Research scientists have simulated this process...

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:: 05 November, 2009
Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that...

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:: 04 November, 2009
It's no bigger than a stamp packet but it has the potential to allow rapid development of a new generation of drugs and genetic engineering...

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:: 31 October, 2009
A company that makes steel for bearings used in heavy trucks had a big problem. The trucks travel through harsh, perilous environments such as...

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:: 31 October, 2009
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists...

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:: 31 October, 2009
A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating...

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