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New Insights Into How Materials Transfer Heat Could Lead to Improved Electronics
May 16, 2013 Researchers have published new insights into how materials transfer heat, which could lead eventually to smaller, more powerful electronic ... > full story -
Moth-Inspired Nanostructures Take the Color out of Thin Films
May 16, 2013 Inspired by the structure of moth eyes, researchers have developed nanostructures that limit reflection at the interfaces where two thin films meet, suppressing the "thin-film interference" ... > full story -
Reading the Unreadable: 'Unopenable' Scrolls Will Yield Their Secrets to New X-Ray System
May 16, 2013 Pioneering X-ray technology is making it possible to read fragile rolled-up historical documents for the first time in centuries. Old parchment is often extremely dry and liable to crack and crumble ... > full story -
3-D Modeling Technology Offers Groundbreaking Solution for Engineers
May 16, 2013 New software has the potential to enable engineers to make 'real world' safety assessments of structures and foundations with unprecedented ... > full story -
Carbon in a Twirl: The Science Behind a Self-Assembled Nano-Carbon Helix
May 16, 2013 Nanotechnology draws on the fabrication of nanostructures. Scientists have now succeeded in growing a unique carbon structure at the nanoscale that resembles a tiny twirled mustache. Their method ... > full story -
New Record in Wireless Data Transmission
May 16, 2013 Researchers have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Researchers say that their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in ... > full story -
X-Ray Tomography of Living Frog Embryo
May 16, 2013 Classical X-ray radiographs provide information about internal, absorptive structures of organisms such as bones. Alternatively, X-rays can also image soft tissues throughout early embryonic ... > full story -
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Strategies to Achieve Net-Zero Energy Homes
May 15, 2013 Chances are you know how many miles your car logs for each gallon or tankful of gas, but you probably have only a foggy idea of how much energy your house consumes, even though home energy ... > full story -
Physicists Let Magnetic Dipoles Interact on the Nanoscale for the First Time
May 15, 2013 Physicists have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice -- by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south poles ... > full story -
Nanoscavengers Could Usher in Next Generation Water Purification
May 15, 2013 A new synthetic nanoparticle could disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water and then get removed magnetically. This improves upon existing technologies through ultraresponsiveness to ... > full story
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