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New Mass Sensor Measures with Atomic Precision The image is a scanning electron microscope image of the device. A suspended nanotube is attached to two large gold electrodes. (Credit: Image courtesy of CSIC- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) A group of researchers ...
CNTs Will Rock You Hot Nanotube Sheet Sounds Like a Plan for Flat Speakers Watch a video of a carbon nanotube speaker being stretched The CNT thin film was pulled out from a super-aligned CNT array grown on a 4 inch silicon wafer and put on two electrodes of a frame to make a ...
AVS Announces Its Major Award Winners of 2008 AVS has selected its major award winners for 2008. The AVS established an annual awards program to encourage excellence in research and innovation in technical areas of interest to the AVS. Listed below are the major award winners: ...
Digital Upgrades for a Radio Astronomy Revolution Using more sophisticated computers and electronics will vastly increase the resolution, sensitivity and data capacity of the Very Large Array telescope Getting Enhanced: The Very Large Array near Socorro, N.M., maintains 28 ...
The Large Hadron Collider Goes To Work Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek and Scientific American editor George Musser talk about the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, which went online this week. Plus we'll test your knowledge ...
WORLD'S "MOST POWERFUL MAGNET" ISN'T QUITE--BUT IS STILL IMPRESSIVE Discovery News directs our attention to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, where researchers are working on the "world's most powerful magnet -- one that won't blow up a ...
DNA Tubes Created with Programmable Circumferences for Nanoscale Manufacturing DNA Strand Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical--and precisely programmable--circumferences. ...
Scientists Grow 'Nanonets' to Capture and Transfer Electrical Charge Thin, complex material efficiently transfers a charge Researchers at Boston College report creating nanonets, pictured here. The novel nano-scale structure was grown from titanium and silicon in a two-dimensiona...
Study of repeater brings quantum communication closer to reality To realize the long-distance quantum communication beyond 100 km, a concept of BACZ quantum repeaters to combine technologies such as quantum memory, entanglement exchange and purification was put forward at the end ...
Helium Ions Replace Electrons in Novel Microscope Technology In-depth look: An image of gold atoms on tin from a state-of-the-art scanning electron microscope (left) has relatively poor depth of field only parts of the image are in sharp focus. By contrast, the entire image from ...
Fabrication of iron-based superconducting wires Photograph of the SmO1-xFxFeAs wires. SEM images for a typical transverse (a) and a longitudinal (b) cross-section of the wire after heat treatment. Via the conventional powder-in-tube method, a research team led by MA Yanwei with ...
All Together Now: Unleashing the Web's Synergistic Possibilities Understanding how novelty emerges from complex systems is a new frontier September, 2008, By John Rennie Remember synergy? It was one of the buzziest buzzwords energizing the dot-com era of the late 1990s. The ...
New Clues To Oxygen At The Origin Of The Solar System The sun in ultraviolet light. When the solar system was forming, the protosun was a potent source of vacuum ultraviolet. (Credit: NASA) ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2008) Oxygen is the most abundant element on Earth, accounting for ...
Breakthrough In Energy Storage: New Carbon Material Shows Promise Of Storing Large Quantities Of Renewable Electrical Energy
Toward Textile-based Solar Cells A fibre-based organic photovoltaic may form the building block of cost-effective, energy-harvesting textiles A 100km 2 area covered with 10% efficient solar cells can produce enough electricity to satisfy the national requirement. 1 Unfortunately, ...
New Nano Device Detects Cell-to-Cell Signalling in Immune System Illustration depicts two multi-trap nanophysiometers connected in series, the technique used to detect paracrine signaling between immune system cells. Image credit: Vanderbilt University Scientists have detected ...
Cell Slicing Method Cuts Solar Power Waste Wafer of the element germanium, a semiconductor that is used as the bottom layer of highly efficient solar power cells. University of Utah engineers have devised a new way of cutting the wafers so that less of the expensive material is ...
Nano Cargo Ships Launched to Destroy Tumours A vial of anti-cancer nano ships glows red under a black light. The particles glow red because they contain fluorescent "quantum dot" nanoparticles. Credit: Luo Gu, UCSD Scientists have developed nanometer-sized cargo ships' that can ...
Shine a Light! Scientists Take Sharpest Image Ever Highest Image Resolution Achieved with X-Ray Image of the gold nanoparticle as reconstructed from the diffraction pattern. The brightness is a measure for the thickness of the gold. Courtesy of C. Schroer/TU Dresden. Anyone who ...
A Novel Approach to Create High-Density Magnetic Data Storage An originally ordered binary alloy (white and red atoms) is disordered by means of focused ion irradiation (visualized as blue spheres in the 3D sketch). The disordered phase is magnetic and hence produces a magnetic ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...