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NASA Completes High Ice Water Content Radar Flight Campaign in Florida

Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)

Future aircraft may be equipped with radar capable of warning of a certain type of potentially hazardous icing conditions at high altitude thanks to research ju...

SLAC's ultrafast 'electron camera' visualizes ripples in 2-D material

Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)

New research led by scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University shows how individual atoms move in t...

'Lab-on-a-Chip' to cut costs of sophisticated tests for diseases and disorders

Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)

Rutgers engineers have developed a breakthrough device that can significantly reduce the cost of sophisticated lab tests for medical disorders and diseases, suc...

First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years

Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)

In a modern, multicore chip, every core - or processor - has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. But the chip also has a larger, s...

Material scientists develop transparent glass 3-D printing technology

Sep 14, 2015 (UPI)

Researchers at MIT have developed the technology to create 3-D printed objects with transparent glass. Biomaterials, plastics, metals and a variety of synthetic...

Japanese paper art inspires new 3-D fabrication method

Sep 14, 2015 (SPX)

A cut or tear in a material is typically a sign of weakness. Now, a Northwestern University, University of Illinois and Tsinghua University research team has cr...

Extreme pressure causes osmium to change state of matter

Sep 13, 2015 (SPX)

Using metallic osmium (Os) in experimentation, an international group of researchers have demonstrated that ultra-high pressures cause core electrons to interpl...

Israeli mini-scanner tells what's in food, drink or pills

Sep 11, 2015 (AFP)

An Israeli start-up has launched a pocket device which analyses instantly the composition of food, drink, medication or other objects. Consumer Physics says its...

Half diamond, half cubic boron, all cutting business

Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)

Diamonds are forever, except when they oxidize while cutting through iron, cobalt, nickel, chromium, or vanadium at high temperatures. Conversely, cubic boron n...

Bubble, bubble ... boiling on the double

Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)

The boiling of water is at the heart of many industrial processes, from the operation of electric power plants to chemical processing and desalination. But the ...

Billie Holiday to return to New York stage -- by hologram

Sep 09, 2015 (AFP)

Legendary singer Billie Holiday will return to the New York stage posthumously this year as the Apollo Theater launches hologram performances. The Apollo, the i...

Digital Fusion Solutions to help U.S. Army with laser project

Sep 09, 2015 (UPI)

A subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions is to help the U.S. Army with the development of high-energy laser systems. Under a $32 million task order, ...

Indications of the origin of the Spin Seebeck effect discovered

Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)

The recovery of waste heat in all kinds of processes poses one of the main challenges of our time to making established processes more energy-efficient and thus...

A new type of Au deposits: The decratonic gold deposits

Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)

Gold is a kind of rare precious metal and has a wide-range use. Gold price has been rising since the 80's of the last century. The great demand for gold has not...

A close-up view of materials as they stretch or compress

Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)

Materials scientists are busy developing advanced materials, while also working to squeeze every bit of performance out of existing materials. This is particula...

The multiferroic sandwich

Sep 08, 2015 (SPX)

Magnetism and ferroelectricity: two properties which are particularly important for technology. The former is well known in empirical uses: it makes the needle ...

Paper tubes make stiff origami structures

Sep 08, 2015 (SPX)

From shipping and construction to outer space, origami could put a folded twist on structural engineering. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana...

Metallic gels produce tunable light emission

Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at MIT have developed a family of materials that can emit light of precisely controlled colors - even pure white light - and whose output can be tun...

Long-sought chiral anomaly detected in crystalline material

Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)

A study by Princeton researchers presents evidence for a long-sought phenomenon - first theorized in the 1960s and predicted to be found in crystals in 1983 - c...

Microscopic animals inspire innovative glass research

Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)

Prof. Juan de Pablo's 20-year exploration of the unusual properties of glass began, oddly enough, with the microscopic animals known as water bears. The creatur...