New technology makes 3-D imaging quicker, easier

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Technology invented by scientists from The Johns Hopkins University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev can make three-dimensional imaging quicker, easier, less expensive and more accurate, the researchers said.


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New insights on fusion power

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research carried out at MIT’s Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor may have brought the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality, though scientists caution that a practical fusion powerplant ...

A Promising Catalyst for Solar-Based Hydrogen Energy Production

Dec 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found that a polymer material is an excellent catalyst in a process to produce hydrogen fuel using sunlight and water. The material meets the basic requirements for an ideal catalyst -- including ...

Avalanches -- triggered from the valley

Dec 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Everybody knows that skiers swishing down steep slopes can cause extensive slab avalanches. But there is a less well known phenomenon: A person skiing a gentle slope in the valley triggers a slab avalanche ...

Ship-in-a-bottle kit on a microchip

Dec 02, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes physicists resort to tried and trusted model-making tricks. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, the University of Stuttgart and the Colorado School of Mines ...

Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears -- in 2-D

Dec 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying a material that appeared to lose its ability to carry current with no resistance say new measurements reveal that the material is indeed a superconductor — but only in ...