Browse News Stories
281 to 290 of 500 stories
view headlines only
-
Diamonds May Be The Ultimate MRI Probe, Say Quantum Physicists
September 22, 2009 Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl's best friend. But a research team has recently found that the gems might turn out to be a patient's best friend as ... > full story -
Light Electric Motor To Increase Efficiency Of Electric Vehicles
September 11, 2009 Scientists have developed a highly efficient lightweight electric motor. The new technology promises to help firms build more efficient electric ... > full story -
How Photon Echoes Can Be Used To Create A Quantum Memory Device
September 11, 2009 A new way of storing and 'echoing' pulses of light has been discovered by a team from Australia, allowing bursts of laser to work as a flexible optical memory and potentially assist in extending the ... > full story -
New Graphene-Based, Nano-Material Has Magnetic Properties
September 2, 2009 Researchers have designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create the next generation of electronic devices like ... > full story -
New Clean Room To Push Boundaries Of Computer Memory Technology
September 1, 2009 The new Southampton Nanofabrication Centre in the UK will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile ‘universal memory’ devices for industry within 5 years, researchers ... > full story -
Cygnus X-1: Still A 'Star' After All Those Years
August 31, 2009 Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources. About a decade after its discovery, Cygnus X-1 secured a place in the history of ... > full story -
Let There Be Light: Teaching Magnets To Do More Than Just Stick Around
August 20, 2009 Chemists have found a way to train tiny semiconductor crystals, called nanocrystals or quantum dots, to display new magnetic functions at room temperature using light as a ... > full story -
Scientists Manipulate Ripples In Graphene, Enabling Strain-Based Graphene Electronics
July 26, 2009 Scientists report the first direct observation and controlled creation via simple thermal manipulation of one- and two-dimensional ripples in graphene sheets. The result has important implications ... > full story -
Lasers Can Lengthen Quantum Bit Memory By 1,000 Times
June 24, 2009 Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum ... > full story -
Spintronic – The New Electronic?
June 17, 2009 Spintronic devices have created enormous advances in microelectronics, leading to faster, instant-on start times and orders-of-magnitude increases in data storage capacity. Spintronics is short for ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,376

