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Heavy Metal: Researchers Try to Get the Lead out of Piezoelectronics LOTS OF POTENTIAL: This high-resolution transmission electron microscopy image depicts the phase boundary in bismuth ferrite with [left to right] areas with tetragonal, rhombohedral and tetragonal structure.
From X-rays to MRI scan: the inside story The power to peer inside the human body was discovered by accident in November 1895 when a German physicist was experimenting with electrons in vacuum tubes Willhelm R ntgen had covered the tubes with black cardboard to stop light ...
Harvesting Energy From Nature's Motions Left to right: Assistant Professor Brian Mann, graduate student Samuel Stanton, and undergraduate student Clark McGehee. (Credit: Duke Photography) By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have ...
Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz.) Before our planets found their way to the stable ...
Solar nanowires promise efficient, low-cost solar power University researchers claim to have found a way of channeling solar energy directly into electrical appliances without the need for conventional solar panels. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say they have ...
Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal The QUaD collaboration uses the 2.6-meter telescope shown here to view the temperature and polarization of the cosmic microwave background, a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young ...
Versatile Handheld Vacuum Tweezers INTEGRA Biosciences has announced PIPETBOY vacuum tweezers, a handheld suction device for manipulating small or delicate items that cannot be touched. Designed as a low cost accessory for the popular PIPETBOY pipettor, the new vacuum tweezers ...
Nanoparticle Coating Prevents Freezing Rain Buildup An aluminum plate glazed with Gao's superhydrophobic coating (left) repelling the supercooled water. For the uncoated plate (right), the water freezes on contact and ice accumulates. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of ...
Blast From The Past: Most Distant Stellar Object Gives Clues About Early Universe Gamma-ray bursts longer than two seconds are caused by the detonation of a massive star at the end of its life. Jets of particles and gamma radiation are emitted in opposite directions from the ...
Cavity-enhanced channeling of emission from an atom into a nanofiber Fam Le Kien, K. Hakuta We study spontaneous emission of an atom near a nanofiber with two fiber-Bragg-grating (FBG) mirrors. We show that the coupling between the atom and the guided modes of the nanofiber can ...
Light And Sound Vibrations Trapped Together In Nanocrystal For First Time Top: Scanning electron micrograph of the optomechanical crystal. Bottom: closer view of the device's nanobeam. (Credit: M. Eichenfield, et. al., Nature, Advanced Online Publication (Oct. 18, 2009)) ...
Solar snafu: The contractor finally installs the panels, but goofs The first message I got from my wife last week was happy news indeed: Solar guys are working on our roof! As readers of this blog know, we d started the process of installing solar panels back in February, and we ...
Researchers Create an Electromagnetic "Black Hole" the Size of a Salad Plate RING OF NO RETURN: A cylinder made of metamaterial rings effectively swallows electromagnetic radiation directed toward it in the same plane. Two researchers say they have built a cylinder that acts as ...
Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet The basic chemistry for life has been detected in a second hot gas planet, HD 209458b, depicted in this artist's concept. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic ...
2009 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering Awarded to Sixteen Researchers LOS ALTOS, California The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named 16 promising scientific researchers as the 2009 recipients of Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering. Each Fellow ...
LHC gets colder than deep space the giant Atlas detector will search for hints of the elusive Higgs boson particle The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has once again become one of the coldest places in the Universe. All eight sectors of the LHC have now been cooled to ...
The colourful promises of electronic paper WITH the international launch of Amazon's Kindle reader this week, perhaps electronic books will become the must-have present this year. But even as we unwrap our shiny new e-readers, we may be forgiven for wondering how long it will be ...
First black hole for light created on Earth The full-wave simulation result when light is incident to the black hole (Image: Qiang Cheng and Tie Jun Cui) An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at ...
IVC-18 Enrolled exhibitors list 1 Shanghai No.2 Valve Factory Co.,Ltd. A01-02 2 Shanghai Hon Duan Electric Appliamces Co,Ltd. A03 3 ION-TOF GmbH ION-TOF GmbH A04 4 Omicron Omicron NanoTechnology A05-06 5 Beijing Beiyi Innovation Vacuum Technology Co., Ltd. A07-11 6 Advanced ...
Smallest Electronic Component: Researchers Create Molecular Diode This is a schematic for molecular diode. The symmetric molecule (top) allows for two-way current. The asymmetrical molecule (bottom) permits current in one direction only and acts as a single-molecule diode. ...
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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 ...