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Caging of Molecules Allows Investigation of Equilibrium Thermodynamics
Feb. 26, 2015 — High performance materials for gas storage, thermal insulators or nanomachines need a thorough understanding of the behavior of the material down to the molecular level. Thermodynamics, which have ... full story -
Building Blocks of the Future Defy Logic: New Logic-Defying Mathematical Model
Feb. 26, 2015 — Wake up in the morning and stretch; your midsection narrows. Pull on a rubber band and it becomes thinner. One might assume that materials will always stretch and thin. Wrong. Thanks to their ... full story -
New Research Predicts When, How Materials Will Act
Feb. 26, 2015 — A material might melt or snap in half. And for engineers, knowing when and why that might happen is crucial information. Now, a researcher has laid out an overarching theory that explains why certain ... full story -
New X-Ray Microscope for Nanoscale Imaging
Feb. 26, 2015 — A new microscope at the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe will ultimately deliver nanoscale resolution imaging for everything from proteins to fuel cell ... full story -
Combating Bacteria Via Silver-Dammar Coating
Feb. 26, 2015 — Natural resins obtained from plants to be used as a coating element to enhance durability and anti-rust properties. Coating systems are formulated using a mixture of dammar, silver and nanoclay in ... full story -
Superatomic Nickel Core and Unusual Molecular Reactivity
Feb. 26, 2015 — Scientists have revealed a unique molecular fragment Ni2O2, consisting of two nickel atoms and two oxygen atoms, that have shown plausible superatomic properties. Supeatoms are important structural ... full story -
New Insight Found in Black Hole Collisions
Feb. 26, 2015 — New research by an astrophysicist provides revelations about the most energetic event in the universe -- the merging of two spinning, orbiting black holes into a much larger black ... full story -
Lithium from the Coal in China
Feb. 26, 2015 — Coal from China could become a major source of the metal lithium, according to a review of the geochemistry. Lithium is an essential component of rechargeable batteries used almost ubiquitously in ... full story -
Optical Features Embedded in Marine Shells May Help Develop Responsive, Transparent Displays
Feb. 26, 2015 — The blue-rayed limpet is a tiny mollusk that lives in kelp beds along the coasts of Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and the Canary Islands. These diminutive organisms -- as small as a ... full story -
MUSE Goes Beyond Hubble: Looking Deeply Into the Universe in 3-D
Feb. 26, 2015 — The MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope has given astronomers the best ever three-dimensional view of the deep universe. After staring at the Hubble Deep Field South region for only 27 ... full story -
Pockets of Calm Protect Molecules Around a Supermassive Black Hole
Feb. 26, 2015 — Researchers have discovered regions where certain organic molecules somehow endure the intense radiation near the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 1068, also known to amateur ... full story -
Electronic Alerts May Do More Harm Than Good for Kidney Patients
Feb. 25, 2015 — Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious condition that can lead to dialysis and even death in hospitalized patients. To prevent these adverse outcomes, some hospital systems have proposed using ... full story -
Developers Help Fund Transit Through Value Capture Plans
Feb. 25, 2015 — Transit improvements increase property values, and cities increasingly are asking real estate developers to help fund transit facilities that will benefit their projects, according to a new ... full story -
Simple Way to Make and Reconfigure Complex Emulsions
Feb. 25, 2015 — Researchers have devised a new way to make complex liquid mixtures, known as emulsions, that could have many applications in drug delivery, sensing, cleaning up pollutants, and performing chemical ... full story -
Monster Black Hole Discovered at Cosmic Dawn
Feb. 25, 2015 — The discovery of the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at that time presents a puzzle to researchers: How could something so massive and ... full story -
Clusters of Aluminum Metal Atoms Become Superconductive at Surprisingly High Temperatures
Feb. 25, 2015 — Clusters of atoms known as 'superatoms' represent an entirely new family of superconductors -- one that appears to work at temperatures well above standard ... full story -
Physicists Offer a Solution to the Puzzle of the Origin of Matter in the Universe
Feb. 25, 2015 — Most of the laws of nature treat particles and antiparticles equally, but stars and planets are made of particles, or matter, and not antiparticles, or antimatter. That asymmetry, which favors matter ... full story -
Bending a Highly Energetic Electron Beam With Crystal
Feb. 25, 2015 — Scientists have demonstrated that a bent silicon crystal can bend the paths of focused, very energetic electron beams much more than magnets used today. The method could be of interest for particle ... full story -
New Flow Battery to Keep Big Cities Lit, Green and Safe
Feb. 25, 2015 — The new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery uses an electrolyte that has more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. ... full story -
New Technology Could Make Treatment of Oil and Gas Wastewater Simpler, Cheaper
Feb. 25, 2015 — Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made ... full story
- Caging of molecules allows investigation of equilibrium thermodynamics
- Building blocks of the future defy logic: New logic-defying mathematical model
- New research predicts when, how materials will act
- New x-ray microscope for nanoscale imaging
- Combating bacteria via silver-dammar coating
- Superatomic Nickel core and unusual molecular reactivity
- New insight found in black hole collisions
- Lithium from the coal in China
- Optical features embedded in marine shells may help develop responsive, transparent displays
- MUSE goes beyond Hubble: Looking deeply into the universe in 3-D
- Pockets of calm protect molecules around a supermassive black hole
- Electronic alerts may do more harm than good for kidney patients
- Developers help fund transit through value capture plans
- Simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsions
- Monster black hole discovered at cosmic dawn
- Clusters of aluminum metal atoms become superconductive at surprisingly high temperatures
- Physicists offer a solution to the puzzle of the origin of matter in the universe
- Bending a highly energetic electron beam with crystal
- New flow battery to keep big cities lit, green and safe
- New technology could make treatment of oil and gas wastewater simpler, cheaper
- Parkinson's disease patients have reduced visual contrast acuity
- Cellular communication offers easy fog detection for roads and runways
- Learning by eye: Silicon micro-funnels increase the efficiency of solar cells
- Electric-car driving range and emissions depend on where you live
- Magnetic nanoparticles enhance performance of solar cells
- When it comes to the digital playground we need to stop crying wolf
- Cherenkov Effect improves radiation therapy for patients with cancer
- In quest for better lithium-air batteries, chemists boost carbon's stability
- Researchers enable solar cells to use more sunlight
- Uncertainties must be taken into account in fisheries stock assessment
- Graphene shows potential as novel anti-cancer therapeutic strategy
- Flexible nanosensors for wearable devices
- Spin laser: Rapid data transfer thanks to quantum physics
- New nanowire structure absorbs light efficiently: May be used in LEDs and solar cells
- Novel computer model designed to understand cardiovascular diseases
- Bionic reconstruction lets patients use a robotic prosthetic hand controlled by the mind
- SOHO sees something new near the sun: Comet survives close encounter
- Sensor-packed smartphones can read your mood, guard your data, and wreak havoc in the wrong hands
- Dendrite eraser: New electrolyte rids batteries of short-circuiting fibers
- Novel pretreatment could cut biofuel costs by 30 percent or more
- Together, nanotechnology, genetic interference may tackle 'untreatable/ brain tumors
- Intelligent tree inventory detector
- Ultra-thin nanowires can trap electron 'twisters' that disrupt superconductors
- Using 'fuzzy logic' to optimize hybrid solar/battery systems
- Optical nanoantennas set the stage for a NEMS lab-on-a-chip revolution
- Why a latte is less likely to spill than a coffee
- Detecting defects at the nanoscale will profit solar panel production
- New acoustic insulation material that incorporates fibers from orange tree pruning
- Crude oil production: Asphaltene analysis takes a giant step
- Cyberbystanders: Most don't try to stop online bullies
- Renewable energy obtained from wastewater
- First portable system for monitoring patients with Parkinson's disease tested on 50 people from different countries
- New, useful feature of Moringa seeds revealed
- Facebook in mourning: mediatization of death and RIP pages as virtual shrines
- Motor proteins prefer slow, steady movement
- Building tailor-made DNA nanotubes step by step
- Radio chip for the 'Internet of things'
- Your privacy online: Health information at serious risk of abuse, researchers warn
- Threat of ocean acidification to coastal communities in US
- Simulating superconducting materials with ultracold atoms
- Magnetic nanoparticles could stop blood clot-caused strokes
- 3D printed guides can help restore function in damaged nerves
- Stretch and relax: Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium
- Availabililty of rare metals for manufacturing: Are we (in)dependent of rare metals?
- Fever alarm armband: A wearable, printable, temperature sensor
- New catalyst to create chemical building blocks from biomass
- Smoking for 75 minutes in a car could render you unconscious, study suggests
- Frequency combs in molecular fingerprint region
- Quantum many-body systems on the way back to equilibrium
- New assistive equipment to maximize human sensorimotor function
- Independent home living or healthcare facility? Web tool to speed data collection
- System to turn wastewater into fresh water developed
- Draft report analyzes policy options for hydraulic fracturing in Michigan
- Hydropower completes greening of Norway
- SuperSTEM microscope sees single atoms
- Mars exploration: NASA's MAVEN spacecraft completes first deep dip campaign
- Giving shape to black holes' intense winds
- Scientists identify mineral that destroys organic compounds, with implications for Mars Curiosity Mission
- New technique for making graphene competitor, molybdenum disulfide
- Perfect colors, captured with one ultra-thin lens
- Hubble gets best view of a circumstellar debris disk distorted by a planet
- New nanogel for drug delivery: Self-healing gel can be injected into the body and act as a long-term drug depot
- Sensor technology may help improve accuracy of clinical breast exams
- Tracing languages back to their common ancestors through the statistics of sound shifts
- Direct observation of bond formations
- New NIST tools to help boost wireless channel frequencies and capacity
- A new view of the solar system: Astrophysical jets driven by the sun
- Mobile app with evidence-based decision support diagnoses more obesity, smoking, and depression
- Supercomputer simulations explore how an air-reed instrument generates air flow and sound
- Atomically thin gas and chemical sensors
- New approach to distributing computations could make multicore chips much faster
- Higgs mode in superconducting materials: Tabletop technique for examining physics' most celebrated missing link
- Neck pain can be changed through altered visual feedback
- Flame retardants found to cause metabolic, liver problems, animal study shows
- Shape-shifting nanorod ensembles release heat differently
- Digital games and classroom learning: Study finds helpful features, gaps
- Airport screening misses half of disease cases but could be improved
- Classical nova explosions are major lithium factories in the universe
- Combination of imaging methods improves diagnostics
- Does dark matter cause mass extinctions and geologic upheavals?
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