Free-electron laser targets fat

Physics /

Apr 09, 2006 | 4.4 / 5 (78) | 0

Fat may have finally met its match: laser light. Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...

Big breakthrough for tiny particles

Physics /

Apr 09, 2006 | 4.8 / 5 (26) | 0

MIT chemical engineers have devised an elegant new method for creating complex polymeric microparticles that could have applications in a variety of fields, from drug delivery in medicine to the creation of ...

Scientists fashion semiconductors into flexible membranes

Nanotechnology /

Apr 09, 2006 | 3.7 / 5 (24) | 0

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have demonstrated a way to release thin membranes of semiconductors from a substrate and transfer them to new surfaces-an advance that could unite the properties of silicon and ...

Scientist says climate causes hurricanes

Space & Earth /

Apr 09, 2006 | 3.5 / 5 (16) | 0

Kerry Emanuel, a prominent hurricane scientist, theorizes that warming and cooling cycles in the Atlantic Ocean may have little to do with hurricanes.