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7/27/10
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Sep 2 | News
Using
zinc oxide nanowires, Georgia Tech researchers have brought mechanical
strain into use in a logic device that includes both transistors and
diodes. When force is applied to the wires, an electrical field is
created across two electrodes, strong enough to serve at gate voltage.
Sep 2 | News
In a world where doctors can treat the most devastating illnesses, the common cold remains elusive. That's because up until recently, scientists knew little about the viruses that spread this seasonal nuisance. But that may be changing now that researchers have mapped one virus's atomic structure using the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the Argonne National Laboratory.
Sep 2 | News
A MIT team has developed a new way to attach phosphorus to organic compounds by first splitting the phosphorus with ultraviolet light. Their method eliminates the need for chlorine, which is usually required for such reactions and poses health risks to workers handling the chemicals.
Sep 2 | News
A “game-changing” technique using near infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights against cancer and many other diseases. University of Central Florida chemists used near infrared light and fluorescent dye to take pictures of cells and tumors deep within tissue.
Sep 2 | News
Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company. Using inexpensive, off-the-shelf telecommunications fiber optics, sturdy and portable "mid-infrared supercontinuum lasers" are being developed that could blind heat-seeking weapons from a distance of 1.8 milles away.
Sep 2 | News
The Brookhaven National Laboratory and three collaborating institutions will receive a total of $4.2 million to develop a superconducting magnet energy storage system that will help advance DOE’s renewable energy goals.
Sep 1 | News
A
New York-based private equity firm has announced the completion of its
acquisition of Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc. from Covidien for approximately
$280 million. The New Jersey-based chemical manufacturer will continue
operations as usual, according to the new owner, but the company must drop the Mallinckrodt name.
Sep 1 | News
A
new smartphone chip prototype under development at UC San Diego makes
use of the underused transistors in modern microprocessors - so-called
"dark silicon" - to run code more efficiently. These transistors are
typically dormant due to power limitations, but researchers have found a
way to access this computing power.
Sep 1 | News
Ensuring the efficacy of large-scale CO2 storage requires accurate prediction of the movement and reactivity of CO2
in a reservoir, as well monitoring to verify predictions of site
performance. There are still a number of questions to be answered before
storage can begin, including wellbore and natural seal integrity and
groundwater effects.
Sep 1 | News
String theory was originally developed to describe the fundamental
particles
and forces that make up our universe. New research, led by a team from
Imperial
College London, describes the unexpected discovery that string
theory also
seems to predict the behavior of entangled quantum particles. As this
prediction can be tested in the laboratory, researchers can now test
string
theory.