 Rocketing Through Water June 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Swimmers around the world are breaking records this year like never before, including at this week's U.S. Olympic trials. Some attribute it to extensive training as athletes prepare to compete at this summer's ... | |
A bright future for plastics -- robot 'skin,' flexible laptops and electric posters June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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WITH market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry, from £1.5 billion to £15.5 billion, by 2014, it is no wonder that scientists and governments alike are keen ... | |
 Researchers create mercury-absorbent container linings for broken CFLs June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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With rising energy prices and greater concern over global warming, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are having a successful run. Sales of the curlicue, energy-sipping bulbs, which previously had languished ... | |
 Exciton-based circuits eliminate a 'speed trap' between computing and communication signals June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San Diego have demonstrated. | |
Silicon photonic crystals key to optical cloaking June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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In computer simulations, the researchers have demonstrated an approximate cloaking effect created by concentric rings of silicon photonic crystals. The mathematical proof brings scientists a step closer to a practical solution ... | |
 Oxygen Ions for Fuel Cells Get Loose at Low Temperatures June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Seeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has uncovered a novel ... | |
 Scientists turn dents into smart bumps August 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Due to a phenomenon called the shape memory effect (SME), certain "memory metals" can be distorted and then brought back to their original shape by a simple temperature change. While a one-way memory effect ... | |
 Study Finds New Properties in Non-Magnetic Materials June 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A team of Penn State researchers has shown for the first time that the entire class of non-magnetic materials, such as those used in some computer components, could have considerably more uses than scientists ... | |
 New process could cause titanium price to tumble May 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 79 vote(s)
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Whether for stopping cars or bullets, titanium is the material of choice, but it has always been too expensive for all but the most specialized applications. | |
 Bright sparks make gains towards plastic lasers of the future May 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Imperial researchers have come one step closer to finding the 'holy grail' in the field of plastic semiconductors by demonstrating a class of material that could make electrically-driven plastic laser diodes ... | |
Protein-Nanoparticle Material Mimics Human Brain Tissue July 21, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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A composite material consisting of a horse protein and metallic nanoparticles displays magnetic properties very similar to those of human brain tissue, scientists have found. The work, published in the June 20 online edition ... | |
 Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International ... | |
 Atomic-Level Mechanisms of Phase-Change Memory Materials Revealed April 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Scientists from the University of Cambridge in the UK have uncovered the atomic-level interactions that occur when a class of “phase-change” memory materials stores information. Their work, reported in the ... | |
An Invisible Cloak for Magnetism March 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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The subject of metamaterials is mad science at its finest – researchers trying to create materials with properties that don’t exist in nature, and that cannot be made with ordinary atoms. | |
A glass apart June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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British scientists are developing a new type of glass that can dissolve and release calcium into the body. This will enable patients to regrow bones and could signal a move away from bone transplants. | |
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