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News laser design offers more inexpensive multi-color output

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

A new Northwestern University study has engineered a more cost-effective laser design that outputs multi-color lasing and offers a step forward in chip-based la...

Alien ice on Earth

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

In addition to helping scientists better understand those remote worlds, the findings - published online July 11 in Physical Review Letters - could reveal how w...

Chemistry discovery yields 3-D table-top objects crafted from light

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

The economical method for shaping light into an infinite number of volumetric objects would be useful in a variety of fields, from biomedical imaging, education...

Sorting complicated knots

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

Why care about knots? Making perfect knots on ties and quick knots on shoes are good skills to have, but why are mathematicians so interested in knots? It turns...

Giant enhancement of electromagnetic waves revealed within small dielectric particles

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

The problem of miniaturization of basic elements in electronics requires new approaches. In this connection, it has become very important to be able to create i...

Feel the heat, one touch a time

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

These materials are promising for recovery of tremendous waste heat produced during industrial production and in our daily life, and they can enable effective s...

Engineers find way to evaluate green roofs

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

Green roofs are flat, vegetated surfaces on the tops of buildings that are designed to capture and retain rainwater and filter any that is released back into th...

6 teams share honors and money in NASA's 2nd 3-D Print a Habitat challenge

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

For this level, which is the second of three sub-competitions within Phase 2, teams had to 3-D print a beam for bend testing. Scores were calculated based on th...

Monash Earth Scientists involved in discovery of a new mineral

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

The mineral - Nataliyamalikite - is new, and did not exist before, explains Professor Joel Brugger, the lead author in a recently published paper in American Mi...

Scanning the surface of lithium titanate

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

LiTi2O4 is the only known example of a so-called spinel1 oxide superconductor. Its rarity makes LiTi2O4 of enormous interest to those studying the origins of su...

ANU invention may help to protect astronauts from radiation in space

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

Lead researcher Dr Mohsen Rahmani from ANU said the material was so thin that hundreds of layers could fit on the tip of a needle and could be applied to any su...

Long Duration Experiments Reach 1,000th Day

Jul 07, 2017 (Spx)

"Understanding the rate at which hydration occurs in cement, a process that can take anywhere up to 50 years, is very important to help us predict the behaviour...

Recreating interstellar ions with lasers

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

While H3+ is astronomically abundant, no scientist understood the mechanisms that form it from organic molecules. Until now. Using lasers, Michigan State Univer...

The comeback kid - black phosphorus and its new potential

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

Now, one group reports in Nano Letters that some commonly held assumptions about black phosphorus are incorrect and that the material is exceptionally tunable. ...

Custom-made clothes for all within reach says top designer

Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)

"We can design every type and shape of garment to be a precise fit to the wearer's figure," he told AFP after showing his digitally created haute couture collec...

Seawater makes ancient Roman concrete stronger

Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)

In a new study, researchers detailed the chemical effects of seawater on the minerals and microscale structures inside ancient Roman concrete. The analysis of g...

Northrop Grumman awarded contracts for P-8 radar systems

Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)

The contracts, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, include depot level repairs and refurbishment of the AN/ALQ-240 and the spare parts necessary. Wor...

The multi-colored photons that might change quantum information science

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

In their paper published in Nature, the team demonstrates that photons can become an accessible and powerful quantum resource when generated in the form of colo...

The sharpest laser in the world

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

This precision is useful for various applications such as optical atomic clocks, precision spectroscopy, radioastronomy and for testing the theory of relativity...

New measurement will help redefine international unit of mass

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

The new NIST measurement of Planck's constant is 6.626069934 x 10-34 kg-m2/s, with an uncertainty of only 13 parts per billion. NIST's previous measurement, pub...