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Point of Light: Light-Focusing Device May Lead to Applications in Computing, Communications, and Imaging
December 7, 2012 — Engineers have created a device that can focus light into a point just a few nanometers (billionths of a meter) across -- an achievement they say may lead to next-generation applications in ... > full story -
Valuable Tool for Predicting Pain Genes in People: 'Network Map' of Genes Involved in Pain Perception
December 6, 2012 — Scientists in Australia and Austria have described a "network map" of genes involved in pain perception. The work should help identify new analgesic ... > full story -
Fingers on the Pulse: Neuroscientists Show Ultrasound Can Be Tweaked to Stimulate Different Sensations
December 6, 2012 — Scientists have shown with fMRI and EEG that ultrasound applied to the periphery, such as fingertips, can stimulate sensory pathways to the brain. The discovery has bearing on diagnosing and treating ... > full story -
'Time Reversal' Research May Open Doors to Future Tech
December 6, 2012 — Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone remotely without even knowing where it is; a device that targets and destroys tumors, wherever they are in the body; or a security field that ... > full story -
Plant Stress Paints Early Picture of Drought
December 5, 2012 — In July 2012, farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Plains regions watched crops wilt and die after a stretch of unusually low precipitation and high temperatures. Before a lack of rain and record-breaking ... > full story -
Fire and Ice: Wildfires Darkening Greenland Snowpack, Increasing Melting
December 5, 2012 — Satellite observations have revealed the first direct evidence of smoke from Arctic wildfires drifting over the Greenland ice sheet, tarnishing the ice with soot and making it more likely to melt ... > full story -
Quantum Thermodynamics: A Better Understanding of How Atoms Soak Up Their Surroundings
December 4, 2012 — The best yet calculations of the effect of blackbody radiation on the wavefunction of ytterbium atoms, should help produce a better atomic ... > full story -
Boosting Heat Transfer With Nanoglue: New Method for Significantly Increasing Heat Transfer Rate Across Two Different Materials
December 4, 2012 — Scientists have developed a new method for significantly increasing the heat transfer rate across two different materials. Results could enable new advances in cooling computer chips and ... > full story -
Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon, Icier Than Thought
December 4, 2012 — Scientists have long suspected that a vast ocean of liquid water lies under the crusty exterior of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New analysis suggests that the internally generated heat that keeps ... > full story -
Search for Life Suggests Planetary Systems More Habitable Than Ours
December 3, 2012 — Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun—but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than ... > full story
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