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Scientists divide magnetic vortices into collectivists and individualists

Apr 06, 2016 (SPX)

In manganese monosilicide (MnSi), microscopic magnetic vortices - skyrmions - may behave as "collectivists" or "individuals", i.e. they are able to create a sin...

Dancing on ice

Apr 06, 2016 (SPX)

While drinking your favourite cold drink, you probably do not imagine what is going on inside each ice cube. At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...

A low-cost, lightweight titanium alloy

Apr 06, 2016 (SPX)

An improved titanium alloy - stronger than any commercial titanium alloy currently on the market - gets its strength from the novel way atoms are arranged to fo...

Drexel rolls out method for making the invisible brushes that repel dirt

Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)

You might not be aware of it, but invisible carpets of polymers are keeping things from being sticky right now. The lenses of your glasses might be coated with ...

Upgrade to offer power boost to world's brightest X-ray laser

Apr 05, 2016 (UPI)

The X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a second laser beam, this one 10,000 times brighter than the first...

Transparent wood could one day help brighten homes and buildings

Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)

When it comes to indoor lighting, nothing beats the sun's rays streaming in through windows. Soon, that natural light could be shining through walls, too. Scien...

Electronic counterpart to ecological models revealed

Apr 05, 2016 (SPX)

Predicting the future from the present - that's what logistic maps can do. For example, they can be used to predict the evolution of a population in the near fu...

Russian startup seeks to solve space junk problem with 'Artificial Star'

Apr 04, 2016 (Sputnik)

Space junk, old, decommissioned objects in the Earth's upper atmosphere, is a major problem which could potentially trap humans on Earth forever. Now, a startup...

Physicists 'undiscovered' technetium carbide

Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of scientists led by Artem Oganov, Head of Computational Materials Discovery Lab at MIPT, has proven that technetium carbide does not exis...

More efficient system for the synthesis of organic compounds

Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)

Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have devised a safer, more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient water-based system for t...

How to make metal alloys that stand up to hydrogen

Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)

High-tech metal alloys are widely used in important materials such as the cladding that protects the fuel inside a nuclear reactor. But even the best alloys deg...

Study finds metal foam handles heat better than steel

Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)

A new study from North Carolina State University researchers finds that novel light-weight composite metal foams (CMFs) are significantly more effective at insu...

For the first time scientists can observe the nano structure of food in 3-D

Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)

"There is still a lot we don't know about the structure of food, but this is a good step on the way to understanding and finding solutions to a number of proble...

Students learn astrophysics through mixed-reality computer simulation

Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)

Had the "learn'd astronomer's" charts and theorems inspired the 19th century writer Walt Whitman as much as strolling under the nighttime sky, Whitman might hav...

Microsoft begins first shipments of HoloLens

Mar 30, 2016 (AFP)

Microsoft began its first shipments of its HoloLens augmented reality headgear Wednesday, staking its place in what is expected to be an emerging computing plat...

Engineering black gold, as light as the bones of birds

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

A team of Korean research team, led by Professor Ju-Young Kim (School of Materials Science and Engineering) of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technolog...

Staying in shape: How wood chemistry relates to structural stability

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

Wood has many uses, which require to know its shrinking1 and swelling capacity in relation to humidity (known as dimensional stability). Researchers from the CN...

Quantum effects at work in the world's smelliest superconductor

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

The quantum behaviour of hydrogen affects the structural properties of hydrogen-rich compounds, which are possible candidates for the elusive room temperature s...

A new method of trapping multiple particles using fluidics

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

Precise control of an individual particle or molecule is a difficult task. Controlling multiple particles simultaneously is an even more challenging endeavor. R...

Lockheed Martin Opens Space Fence Test Facility

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

Objects in space will soon be monitored by a radar array for the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence as part of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) new test site representat...