 |  New magnetic polymers may advance spintronics technologies
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have pioneered a new approach for making magnetic polymers that are held together with very strong hydrogen bonds.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/h-bond-polymer_thumb.jpgThese polymers contain an...  |
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12-16-2006
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| | Strontium Atomic Clock Demonstrates Super-Fine 'Ticks'
Using an ultra-stable laser to manipulate strontium atoms trapped in a "lattice" made of light, scientists at JILA have demonstrated the capability to produce the most precise "ticks" ever recorded in an optical atomic clock-techniques that may be useful in time keeping,... |
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12-04-2006
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| | Reaching New Heights in Accelerator Technology
The International Linear Collider (ILC) is designed to collide high-energy electrons with high-energy positrons (electrons' antimatter counterparts). Once built, the ILC will serve as a powerful tool for scientists to address many of the most compelling questions of the 21st century -... |
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11-30-2006
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| | New Biochip Technology For Diagnostics
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a biochip technology system that may one day become a standard diagnostic tool for identifying human and veterinary infectious diseases.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/biochip_slide_thumb.jpg"In the last two years... |
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11-26-2006
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| | Capturing nanoscale images X-ray laser pulses
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists for the first time have validated the idea of using extremely short and intense X-ray pulses to capture images of objects such as proteins before the X-rays destroy the sample.
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11-13-2006
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11-09-2006
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| | One-of-a-kind magnet open for science
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos Pulsed Field Facility opens new scientific frontiers with 100T Multi-shot Magnet.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/MPA_NHML_4776_thumb.jpgThe world's most powerful pulsed, nondestructive magnet is now ready to explore... |
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10-27-2006
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| | Biodegradable nanospheres for toxin treatment and drug delivery
A new technology to clean the blood of victims of radiological, chemical and biological terrorist attacks is being developed jointly by Argonne National Laboratory, the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute and The University of Chicago Hospitals. ... |
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10-24-2006
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| | Engine on a chip promises to best the battery
MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight can, powering laptops, cell phones, radios and other electronic devices. ... |
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10-22-2006
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| | Improbable "Buckyegg" Hatched
An egg-shaped fullerene, or "buckyball egg" has been made and characterized by chemists at UC Davis, Virginia Tech and Emory and Henry College, Va. The unexpected discovery opens new possibilities for structures for fullerenes, which could have a wide range of uses. ... |
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10-01-2006
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| | Deep-sea oil rigs inspire MIT designs for giant wind turbines
An MIT researcher has a vision: Four hundred huge offshore wind turbines are providing onshore customers with enough electricity to power several hundred thousand homes, and nobody standing onshore can see them. The trick? The wind turbines are floating on platforms a hundred miles out to... |
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09-18-2006
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09-08-2006
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| | Plasma assisted engines fuel efficient, cleaner
Gasoline, diesel, and turbine engines could soon burn cleaner or be more fuel efficient through the application of Plasma Assisted Combustion, a technology originated and developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and now poised to enter the marketplace.
The Laboratory has entered into... |
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08-31-2006
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| | Flying on Hydrogen
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have conducted successful test flights of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft believed to be the largest to fly on a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell using compressed hydrogen. ... |
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08-29-2006
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| | Sandia experimental package of piezoelectric films
For the past three years a Sandia research team headed by Mat Celina has been investigating the performance of various piezoelectric polymer films that might one day serve as ultra-light mirrors in space telescopes.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/mat-celina_thumb.jpgIn 2007... |
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08-10-2006
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| | Hypernuclei at Jefferson Lab
In 1827, Robert Brown observed that pollen grains floating in a drop of water jiggled constantly. The phenomenon became known as Brownian motion. Over 75 years later, Einstein proposed that the pollen grains were being jostled by the molecules of water. The impurity (pollen grains) Brown... |
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08-03-2006
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| | Mercury Atomic Clock Keeps Time with Record Accuracy
An experimental atomic clock based on a single mercury atom is now at least five times more precise than the national standard clock based on a "fountain" of cesium atoms, according to a paper by physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)... |
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07-21-2006
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| | UW-Madison team invents fast, flexible computer chips on plastic
New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/siplastic_thumb.jpgHistorically, the semiconductor industry... |
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07-21-2006
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| | Purple Haze
More than 2,000 years ago, craftsmen in China created a fiery-violet pigment from barium-copper silicates that historians now call Han purple.Once prized by artisans for painting such icons as the Xi'an terra cotta warriors, the pigment is now finding new fans in the world of physics and may... |
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07-13-2006
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