Location: Nepoli, France
Watching a metal transform into a superconductor, it may not be obvious that
this transition provides access to some of the same physics that governed the
cooling of the universe following the Big Bang. Yet at the root of both of these...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Ultracold atoms are still too hot. This may seem a ridiculous claim—after
all, the low-temperature exploits of the purveyors of quantum gases are
notorious. Laser cooling can flash-freeze atoms to temperatures in the micro-
and nanokelvin...
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Location: California, United States
Abstract:
The ability to pattern nanostructures has important
applications in medical diagnosis,(1,
2) sensing,
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid
transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance
that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries -- for cell phones and other
devices -- that...
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Location: California, United States
Sunlight is a major source of energy, from photovoltaics and solar-thermal
units to biofuels and water-splitting. But all these technologies require
intermediate steps and infrastructure to turn the sun's rays into something that
can be...
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Location: San Diego, United States
A record breaking amplifier for high capacity wireless communications systems has been developed. New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality.
New imaging and high capacity wireless...
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Location: California, United States
If you could remove the layers of circuitry in your computer and touch the main processor while it's running a video, you would feel its blistering heat, which can exceed 100 °C. Such heat, a natural by-product of shuttling electrons
through...
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Location: Florida, United States
Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) have developed a wireless network that evaluates walking patterns in an attempt to detect early signs of dementia.
Currently, doctors ask patients to answer a series of questions...
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Location: London, United Kingdom
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human.
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Location: Florida, United States
Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
The laws of physics dictate that traditional lenses can't focus light onto a spot narrower than half the wavelength of the light. But converting the light into waves called plasmons can get around this limitation. Plasmonic lithography, which uses...
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Location: New Orleans, United States
The failure of the New Orleans' levees after Hurricane Katrina struck the coastal city in 2005 is now labeled "the worst engineering disaster of the United States" by a professional organization that knows –– the American Society of...
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created nanoscale particles that can self-assemble into various optical devices. By controlling how densely the tiny silver particles assemble themselves, the researchers can make several...
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Location: NY, United States
Lenses made of liquid have interested researchers and engineers for decades because of the technology's ability to quickly change shape and focal length. But traditional approaches, which use an electric current to change the surface shape of a...
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Location: Virginia, United States
Researcher- Professor Harry Dorn
Abstract-
Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a
new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for...
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Location: University of California - San Diego, United States
A breakthrough discovery at University of
California - San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to
squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic
devices....
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Location: Houston, United States
Lunar dust could be more than a housekeeping issue for astronauts who visit the moon. Their good health may depend on the amount of exposure they have to the tiny particles.
To prepare for a return to the moon, researchers with the National...
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Location: University of California - San Diego, United States
UC San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke
machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making
realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse
piercing...
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Location: University of Missouri, Colombia
A modern computer contains two different types of components:
magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor
components, which perform logic operations. A
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Location: University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
An international team of astronomers has found 10 new “extra
solar” planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a
system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these
other...
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