New technology sharpens X-ray vision
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a novel method for producing dark-field X-ray images at wavelengths...
View ArticleWhen a good nanoparticle goes bad
Understanding how nanoparticles change form may help solve energy needs... The post When a good nanoparticle goes bad appeared first on Popular Mechanics.
View ArticleNew catalyst paves the path for ethanol-powered fuel cells
A team of scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven), in collaboration with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has...
View ArticleNanopillars promise cheap, efficient, flexible solar cells
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (DOE/Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have demonstrated a way to fabricate...
View ArticleBlurring the line between magic and science: Berkeley researchers create an...
Never mind Harry Potter, researchers have made an invisibility cloak of their own. The post Blurring the line between magic and science: Berkeley researchers create an “invisibility cloak” appeared...
View ArticleResearchers discover new way of producing electricity
A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as...
View ArticleSpider silk reveals a paradox of super-strength
Since its development in China thousands of years ago, silk from silkworms, spiders and other insects has been used for high-end, luxury fabrics as well as for parachutes and medical sutures. Now,...
View ArticleFibres that can detect and produce sound
For centuries, "man-made fibres" meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it's come to mean the filaments of glass that carry data in communications networks. But to Yoel Fink,...
View ArticleResearchers create damage-tolerant metallic glass
Amorphous palladium-based alloy demonstrates unprecedented level of combined toughness and strength; could be of use in biomedical implants The post Researchers create damage-tolerant metallic glass...
View ArticleNew photonic crystals have both electronic and optical properties
The first optoelectronically active 3D photonic crystal has been demonstrated, an advance that could open new avenues for solar cells, lasers, metamaterials and more. The post New photonic crystals...
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