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First Thin Films of Spin Ice Reveal Cold Secrets
Mar. 12, 2014 Thin films of spin ice have been shown to demonstrate surprising properties which could help in the development of applications of magnetricity, the magnetic equivalent of ... full story -
VLT Spots Largest Yellow Hypergiant Star: Mix of New and Old Observations Reveals Exotic Binary System
Mar. 12, 2014 The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has revealed the largest yellow star -- and one of the 10 largest stars found so far. This hypergiant has been found to measure more than ... full story -
Acoustic Cloaking Device Hides Objects from Sound
Mar. 11, 2014 Engineers have demonstrated the world's first three-dimensional acoustic cloak. The new device reroutes sound waves to create the impression that the cloak and anything beneath it are not there. ... full story -
Lignin Breakthroughs Serve as GPS for Plant Research
Mar. 11, 2014 By thoroughly mapping a single specialized tissue involved in wood formation, scientists have developed the equivalent of turn-by-turn directions for future plant scientists to understand how plants ... full story -
Scientists 'Herd' Cells in New Approach to Tissue Engineering
Mar. 11, 2014 An electrical current can be used to orchestrate the flow of a group of cells, engineers have discovered. This achievement sets the stage for more controlled forms of tissue engineering and for ... full story -
Solar Policy Pathways for U.S. States Examined
Mar. 11, 2014 The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has published a report that aligns solar policy and market success with state demographics. By organizing the 48 contiguous states ... full story -
Free Online Software Helps Speed Up Genetic Discoveries
Mar. 11, 2014 Microarray analysis -- a complex technology commonly used in many applications such as discovering genes, disease diagnosis, drug development and toxicological research -- has just become easier and ... full story -
MRI to 'See Through' Metal Screws Developed to Follow Patients After Hip Fracture Surgery
Mar. 11, 2014 People who sustain the most common type of hip fracture are at increased risk of complications. A special type of MRI has been developed that can show a detailed image following fracture repair, ... full story -
More Secure Communications Thanks to Quantum Physics
Mar. 11, 2014 One of the recent revelations by Edward Snowden is that the U.S. National Security Agency is currently developing a quantum computer. Physicists aren’t surprised by this news; such a computer could ... full story -
Concerns and Considerations With the Naming of Mars Craters
Mar. 11, 2014 Recently initiatives that capitalise on the public’s interest in space and astronomy have proliferated, some putting a price tag on naming space objects and their features, such as Mars craters. ... full story -
Cancer Cells Don't Take 'Drunken' Walks Through Body
Mar. 11, 2014 Biologists have believed that cancers cells spread through the body in a slow, aimless fashion, resembling a drunk who can't walk three steps in a straight line. They now know that's true ... full story -
How Twitter Shapes Public Opinion
Mar. 11, 2014 How exactly does Twitter, with its 241 million users tweeting out 500 million messages daily, shape public opinion? That question was tackled by a group of researchers in China, who investigated how ... full story -
Chip-Scale Tunable Laser to Enable Bandwidth-on-Demand in Advanced Optical Networks
Mar. 11, 2014 Researchers have demonstrated the smallest wavelength-tunable laser fabricated by microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. The laser features a wide tuning range which enables ... full story -
Bending the Light With a Tiny Chip: Silicon Chip Acts as a Lens-Free Projector, May One Day Fit in Cell Phones
Mar. 11, 2014 Traditional projectors -- like those used to project a film or classroom lecture notes -- pass a beam of light through a tiny image, using lenses to map each point of the small picture to ... full story -
Face Matching for Passports and IDs Incredibly Fallible
Mar. 11, 2014 New research finds face matching, as when customs agents check passports, to be incredibly fallible, with error rates between 10 and 20 percent under ideal, laboratory-induced conditions, and much ... full story -
Saturn and Jupiter: X-Ray Laser Spies Deep Into Giant Gas Planets
Mar. 11, 2014 Using DESY's X-ray laser FLASH, researchers took a sneak peek deep into the lower atmospheric layers of giant gas planets such as Jupiter or Saturn. The observations reveal how liquid hydrogen ... full story -
New Software Records Vast Amounts of Hyerspectral Data in Real Time
Mar. 11, 2014 Cameras with hyperspectral sensors can observe far more than the human eye. Unlike the retina, which has only three color receptors (red, green and blue), these sensors can generate 130 different ... full story -
LED Lamps: Less Energy, More Light
Mar. 11, 2014 LEDs are durable and save energy. Now researchers have found a way to make LED lamps even more compact while supplying more light than commercially available models. The key to success: transistors ... full story -
Milky Way Amidst a 'Council of Giants'
Mar. 11, 2014 We live in a galaxy known as the Milky Way -- a vast conglomeration of 300 billion stars, planets whizzing around them, and clouds of gas and dust floating in between. Though it has long been known ... full story -
Effective Thermal Camouflage and Invisibility Device for Soldiers Created
Mar. 11, 2014 Scientists have created a thermal illusion device to control thermal camouflage and invisibility using thermotic materials. Every natural object exhibits thermal signatures. However, if these signals ... full story -
Galaxies in the Early Universe Mature Beyond Their Years
Mar. 10, 2014 An international team of researchers has discovered the most distant examples of galaxies in the early universe that were already mature and massive. The mature galaxies were found at a ... full story
- First thin films of spin ice reveal cold secrets
- VLT spots largest yellow hypergiant star: Mix of new and old observations reveals exotic binary system
- Acoustic cloaking device hides objects from sound
- Lignin breakthroughs serve as GPS for plant research
- Scientists 'herd' cells in new approach to tissue engineering
- Solar policy pathways for U.S. states examined
- Free online software helps speed up genetic discoveries
- MRI to 'see through' metal screws developed to follow patients after hip fracture surgery
- More secure communications thanks to quantum physics
- Concerns and considerations with the naming of Mars craters
- Cancer cells don't take 'drunken' walks through body
- How Twitter shapes public opinion
- Chip-scale tunable laser to enable bandwidth-on-demand in advanced optical networks
- Bending the light with a tiny chip: Silicon chip acts as a lens-free projector, may one day fit in cell phones
- Face matching for passports and IDs incredibly fallible
- Saturn and Jupiter: X-ray laser spies deep into giant gas planets
- New software records vast amounts of hyerspectral data in real time
- LED lamps: Less energy, more light
- Milky Way amidst a 'Council of Giants'
- Effective thermal camouflage and invisibility device for soldiers created
- Galaxies in the early universe mature beyond their years
- Possible evidence for dark matter particle presented at UCLA physics symposium
- Small biomass power plants could help rural economies, stabilize national power grid
- Turing's theory of chemical morphogenesis validated 60 years after his death
- A shocking diet: Researchers describe microbe that 'eats' electricity
- West Virginia spill activates engineers to determine effects of chemicals
- Scientists build thinnest-possible LEDs to be stronger, more energy efficient
- Doctors often uncertain in ordering, interpreting lab tests
- Two-dimensional material shows promise for optoelectronics: LEDs, photovoltaic cells, and light detectors
- Synthetic biologists shine light on genetic circuit analysis
- Computer system simulates the behavior of tax evaders
- Alaska the Last Frontier ... not for long
- Microwave radar monitors sliding slopes: Geodesists research in the Alps
- Biomolecular tweezers facilitate study of mechanical force effects on cells and proteins
- 'Death stars' in Orion blast planets before they even form
- Mapping behavior of charges in correlated spin-orbit coupled materials: Electronic disruption prods Mott insulator's conversion to metallic state
- Optimized ski sled for Paralympics athlete
- Making it easier to plan offshore wind farms: New tool to help development
- 'Super bacteria' clean up after oil spills
- Weirdness in cosmic web of the universe: Faint strings of galaxies in 'empty' space arranged in way never before seen
- Atomically thin, flexible, semi-transparent solar cells created
- New bioinformatics tool to visualize transcriptomes
- Four new human-made ozone depleting gases found in the atmosphere
- Can the blind 'hear' colors, shapes? Yes, show researchers
- New NASA Van Allen Probes observations helping to improve space weather models
- Research on 3-D scaffolds sets new bar in lung regeneration
- The dark side of fair play: Why would evolution let spite stick around?
- Blue paint on Japanese bullet trains can inhibit bacterial growth
- NASA's WISE survey finds thousands of new stars, but no 'Planet X'
- New study of proteins in space could yield better understanding, new drug development
- Promising news for producing fuels through artificial photosynthesis
- Mystery of planet-forming disks explained by magnetism
- Volume of notifiable disease reporting may double with required electronic lab reporting
- Smartphones become 'eye-phones' with low-cost devices
- Magnetically stimulated flow patterns offer strategy for heat transfer problems
- UV light accelerates cancer cells that creep along outside of blood vessels
- Software analyzes apps for malicious behavior
- Interactive simulator for vehicle drivers
- Effective thermal insulation with wood foam
- Public could virtually 'travel' to space for $90 through new project
- Squeezing light into metals: Engineers control conductivity with inkjet printer
- Heating safety from mri radiofrequency energy demonstrated in variety of simulated spinal cord stimulation scenarios
- Computer science students help singers learn their vowels
- Colored diamonds are a superconductor's best friend
- Plasma plumes help shield Earth from damaging solar storms
- Crystals ripple in response to light: First propagating surface phonon polaritons in a van der Waals crystal
- Future electronics with super-efficient hard drives: Electricity controls magnetism
- Biofuel-to-hydrocarbon conversion technology licensed
- Icy wreckage discovered in nearby planetary system
- 'Current test' for water pollution
- Combatting hospital-acquired infections with protein metal complex
- Smart nanofibers to treat kidney failure
- Recent advances in the controlled synthesis and functional applications of luminescent metal nanoclusters
- Are you smarter than a 5-year-old? Preschoolers can do algebra
- Storing extra rocket fuel in space for future missions?
- Complications following surgery predict costly readmissions
- Computers used to 'see' neurons to better understand brain function
- Hubble witnesses an asteroid mysteriously disintegrating
- Engineering team increases power efficiency for future computer processors
- Classroom focus on social, emotional skills can lead to academic gains, study shows
- IT security for the daily life: Withdrawing money at cash machines with 'Google Glass'
- Computational tool offers new insight into key biological processes
- 7-Tesla MRI scanner allows even more accurate diagnosis of breast cancer
- Going nuclear -- in a small way
- Collecting digital user data without invading privacy
- Robotic prosthesis turns drummer into a three-armed cyborg
- How the Internet is transforming our experience of being ill
- New innovation could mean eye injections are a thing of the past
- Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light waves
- What makes us feel vulnerable to terrorism? Transportation systems may hold answer
- Three out of every four European banks fails in handicap accessibility of their websites
- Catalog of massive stars: Only one on two million qualify
- New research could help make 'roll-up' digital screens a reality for all
- New robotic refueling technologies tested
- Maize and bacteria: A one-two punch knocks copper out of stamp sand
- Pumping iron: A hydrogel actuator with mussel tone
- A small step toward discovering habitable Earths
- Chandra and XMM-Newton provide direct measurement of distant black hole's spin
- Asteroid will safely pass closer than moon on March 5
- First step towards 'programmable materials': Sheet metal that never rattles
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