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Accidental Discovery Produces Durable New Blue Pigment for Multiple Applications
An accidental discovery has
apparently solved a quest
that over thousands of years
has absorbed the energies of
ancient Egyptians, the Han d ... > full story
Harnessing Waste Heat from Laptop Computers, Cell Phones May Double Battery Time
New research points the way
to a technology that might
make it possible to harvest
much of the wasted heat
produced by everything from
... > full story
Green Heating and Cooling Technology Turns Carbon from Eco-Villain to Hero
Carbon is usually typecast
as a villain in terms of the
environment but researchers
have now devised a novel way
to miniaturize a technology ... > full story
Nanotech in Space: New Experiment to Weather the Trials of Orbit
Novel nanomaterials are
scheduled to blast off into
orbit on November 16 aboard
Space Shuttle Atlantis. The
project seeks to test the
performance of the new
... > full story
- Accidental Discovery Produces Durable New Blue Pigment for Multiple Applications
- Harnessing Waste Heat from Laptop Computers, Cell Phones May Double Battery Time
- Green Heating and Cooling Technology Turns Carbon from Eco-Villain to Hero
- Nanotech in Space: New Experiment to Weather the Trials of Orbit
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High-Performance Plasmas May Make Reliable, Efficient Fusion Power A Reality
November 12, 2009 — In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and ... > full story -
Adapting Space-Industry Technology To Treat Breast Cancer
November 3, 2009 — Researchers are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage often experienced by breast cancer ... > full story -
New Technology May Cool The Laptop
October 30, 2009 — Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique ... > full story -
New Route To Nano Self-Assembly Found
October 25, 2009 — By adding select small molecules to mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers, researchers can direct the self-assembly of the nanoparticles into arrays of one, two and even three dimensions with no ... > full story -
Urban Growth Versus Global Warming
October 22, 2009 — Houses on stilts, small scale energy generation and recycling our dishwater are just some of the measures that are being proposed to prepare our cities for the effects of global warming. A new study ... > full story -
Computer Memory: New Material Could Dramatically Boost Data Storage, Save Energy
October 20, 2009 — Engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage ... > full story -
Energy-Autonomous Sensors Find Dents And Cracks In Aircraft
October 18, 2009 — Aircraft maintenance will be easier in future, with sensors monitoring the aircraft skin. If they discover any dents or cracks they will send a radio message to a monitoring unit. The energy needed ... > full story -
Ultra-Cold Systems Of Atoms: Pushing The Cold Frontier In An Orderly Fashion
October 6, 2009 — Working toward ever lower temperatures is only part of the battle for physicists studying ultra-cold systems of atoms. A group of researchers has now found a way to deal with disorder as well, as ... > full story -
'Trash Can' Nuclear Reactors Could Power Human Outpost On Moon Or Mars
October 4, 2009 — NASA has made a series of critical strides toward the development of new nuclear reactors the size of a trash can that could power a human outpost on the moon or Mars. Three recent tests at different ... > full story -
Prototype Developed To Detect Dark Matter
September 25, 2009 — A team of researchers from Spain has developed a "scintillating bolometer" -- a device that the scientists will use in efforts to detect the dark matter of the ... > full story
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