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Bumpy liquid films could simplify fabrication of microlenses

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Have you ever noticed that when heated a film of oil in a pan doesn't remain completely flat? Instead, it forms a wavy pattern that resembles the exterior of an...

Honeywell developing virtual reality technologies for military

Feb 12, 2016 (UPI)

Honeywell Aerospace is to develop virtual reality technologies for future military ground vehicles, including an instrument panel that replaces windows. The wor...

Why not recycled concrete

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

From paper towels to cups to plastic bottles, products made from recycled materials permeate our lives. One notable exception is building materials. Why can't w...

Flow phenomena on solid surfaces

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

This was demonstrated by studying the behaviour of droplets on surfaces with different coatings as they evolved into the equilibrium state. The results could pr...

SLAC X-ray laser turns crystal imperfections into better images of important biomolecules

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Often the most difficult step in taking atomic-resolution images of biological molecules is getting them to form high-quality crystals needed for X-ray studies ...

UBC researchers discover new glass technology

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine if the picture window in your living room could double as a giant thermostat or big screen TV. A discovery by researchers at the University of British C...

Silicon chip with integrated laser: Light from a nanowire

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a nanolaser, a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Thanks to an ingenious process, t...

Scientists from MIPT gain insights into 'forbidden' chemistry

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Gabriele Saleh, a research fellow at MIPT, and Prof. Artem Oganov, a Laboratory Supervisor at MIPT and Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Techno...

A metal that behaves like water

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

Graphene is going to change the world - or so we've been told. Since its discovery a decade ago, scientists and tech gurus have hailed graphene as the wonder ma...

Some 5,000 years ago, silver mining on the shores of the Aegean Sea

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

The team of mining archaeologists was supervised by Prof. Dr Denis Morin of the University of Lorraine, connected with the UMR CNRS 5608 (UMR National Center fo...

Engineering researchers use laser to 'weld' neurons

Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)

A research team based in the University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering has developed a method of connecting neurons, using ultrashort laser pulses - a breakt...

Body temperature triggers newly developed polymer to change shape

Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)

Polymers that visibly change shape when exposed to temperature changes are nothing new. But a research team led by Chemical Engineering Professor Mitch Anthamat...

Twisted X-rays unravel the complexity of helical structures

Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)

Since the discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals just over 100 years ago, X-ray diffraction as a method of structure determination has dominated str...

Rapiscan intros MP100 backpack radiation detecter

Feb 11, 2016 (UPI)

Rapiscan Systems has introduced a lightweight, backpack-borne system for covert detection of radiological and nuclear materials. The MP100 backpack radiation de...

A deep look into a single molecule

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

The interaction of thermal energy from the environment with motional degrees of freedom is well known and often referred to as Brownian motion (also thermal mot...

Making sense of metallic glass

Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)

If you freeze any liquid fast enough, even liquid metal, it becomes a glass. Vitrified metals, or metallic glasses, are at the frontier of materials science res...

Scientists bridge different materials by design

Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have shown that it is possible to design and construct interfaces between materials with different structures by makin...

Metal oxide sandwiches: New option to manipulate properties of interfaces

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

Sandwich systems of thin film transition metal oxides display surprising properties at their interfaces. In case of the paradigmatic example of Lanthan-Aluminat...

Extracting rare-earth elements from coal could soon be economical in US

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

The U.S. could soon decrease its dependence on importing valuable rare-earth elements that are widely used in many industries, according to a team of Penn State...

Breaking through insect shells at a molecular level

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

With their chitinous shells, insects seem almost invulnerable - but like Achilles' heel in Greek mythology, their impressive armor can still be attacked. Resear...