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Paint-on Plastic Electronics: Aligning Polymers for High Performance
March 24, 2013 Semiconducting polymers are an unruly bunch, but now engineers have developed a new method for getting them in line that could pave the way for cheaper, greener, "paint-on" plastic ... > full story -
Hubble Digs Up Galactic Glow Worm
March 24, 2013 The image of a charming and bright galaxy, known as IRAS 23436+5257, was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It is located in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia, which is named ... > full story -
Engineers Explain Physics of Fluids Some 100 Years After Original Discovery
March 22, 2013 Intuition says two or more jets of fluid should coalesce into a single stream of fluid, but that is not always the case. Velocity ... > full story -
How Organic Magnets Grow in a Thin Film
March 22, 2013 Development of organic single molecule magnets opens a great many of applications for magnetic materials and new memory technologies. Organic magnets are lighter, more flexible and less energy ... > full story -
Cooled Integrated Circuit Amplifies With Lowest Noise So Far
March 22, 2013 Researchers have demonstrated an integrated amplifier with the lowest noise performance so far. The amplifier offers new possibilities for detecting the faintest electromagnetic radiation, for ... > full story -
Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper, More Sustainable Chemical Production
March 21, 2013 A new advance could enable the production of an important commodity chemical using carbon dioxide as a carbon source instead of petroleum. Carbon dioxide is basically free, and something the planet ... > full story -
Enzymes Allow DNA to Swap Information With Exotic Molecules
March 21, 2013 Scientists have been hunting for a biological Rosetta Stone -- an enzyme allowing DNA's four-letter language to be written into a simpler (and potentially more ancient) molecule that may have existed ... > full story -
Quantum Computers Coming Soon? Metamaterials Used to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect
March 21, 2013 Engineering a unique metamaterial of gold nanoantennas, researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon of quantum mechanics that ... > full story -
Quantum Computers Counting on Carbon Nanotubes
March 21, 2013 Carbon nanotubes can be used as quantum bits for quantum computers. A study by physicists has shown how nanotubes can store information in the form of vibrations. Up to now, researchers have ... > full story -
Scientists Develop Innovative Twists to DNA Nanotechnology
March 21, 2013 In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, scientists have produced a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D structures that push the boundaries of the burgeoning ... > full story
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