Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image ...
Super honeycomb shows more potential for carbon nanotubes
Jan 19, 2007 |
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The hexagonal network structure makes these nanotubes look a bit like a honeycomb—or, when stretched a bit, like a hammock or fish net. In fact, the stretchiness of these 20-nm-long carbon nanotubes enables ...
Improved Nanodots Could Be Key to Future Data Storage
Nanotechnology / General Physics
Jan 19, 2007 |
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The massive global challenge of storing digital data--storage needs reportedly double every year--may be met with a tiny yet powerful solution: magnetic particles just a few billionths of a meter across. This ...
Researchers observe superradiance in a free electron laser
Jan 19, 2007 |
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A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has generated extremely short light pulses using a new technique that could be used in the next generation of light source facilities ...
Nanocomposite research yields strong and stretchy fibers
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Creating artificial substances that are both stretchy and strong has long been an elusive engineering goal. Inspired by spider silk, a naturally occurring strong and stretchy substance, MIT researchers have ...
Tears reveal some of their deepest secrets to researchers
Jan 19, 2007 |
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It's no secret why we shed tears. But exactly what our tears are made of has remained a mystery to scientists.
There is a dark side to the humble raindrop
Jan 19, 2007 |
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A single drop is harmless, but when billions of raindrops fall from a cloudburst onto bare soil they strike like billions of tiny hammers, dislodging tons of soil per acre which is carried away by surface runoff.
Researchers discover new class of compounds with novel chemistry
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Researchers have discovered a new class of aluminum-hydrogen complexes that exhibits unique chemistry and may one day be used as basic building blocks to create materials for use in alternative forms of energy and high energetic ...
NIST 'Standard Bullet' fights gang violence
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a copper bullet designed to help end criminal sprees without once being fired. Crime laboratories can use NIST's "Standard ...
Corals show Aussie drought link to Asian monsoon
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Droughts of greater severity and length could be in store for Australia and Indonesia if the Asian monsoon system continues to strengthen, palaeoclimatologists have warned.
The hitchhiker's guide to altruism -- Study explains how costly traits evolve
Biology /
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Darwin explained how beneficial traits accumulate in natural populations, but how do costly traits evolve? In the past, two theories have addressed this problem.
New Miniaturized Device for Lab-on-a-Chip Separations
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed an elegantly simple, miniaturized technique for rapidly separating minute samples of proteins, amino acids and other chemical ...
Lifestyle changes effective in protecting against Type II diabetes
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Changing to a healthier lifestyle appears to be at least as effective as taking prescription drugs in reducing the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, says a new BMJ study.
Ground Zero responders have health worries
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Some police officers, firefighters and others who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City say they are paying for it with their health.
The great cometary show
Jan 19, 2007 |
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Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, is no more visible for observers in the Northern Hemisphere. It does put an impressive show in the South, however, and observers in Chile, in particular at the Paranal ...
