http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium which causes syphilis. The previously unknown detailed structure of the bacteria can now be shown in three dimensions. This provides the first real image of the pathogen and reveals previously unknown features, which may help fight the spread of syphilis. http://www.physorg.com/news178810220.html Biology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:02 EST news178810220 You can think of it as origami - very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions. http://www.physorg.com/news178212895.html Nanotechnology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:10:13 EST news178212895 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers use sculptured thin films. http://www.physorg.com/news177086474.html Physics Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:42:05 EST news177086474 Dana Filoti of the University of New Hampshire will present thin films of silver and copper she has developed that can kill bacteria and may one day help to cut down on hospital infections. The antimicrobial properties of silver and copper have been known for centuries -- last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officially registered copper alloys, allowing them to be marketed with the label "kills 99.9% of bacteria within two hours." Copper ions are known to penetrate bacteria and disrupt molecular pathways important for their survival. http://www.physorg.com/news176997558.html Chemistry Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:30:02 EST news176997558 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer responsible for one such material's ability to become superconducting, i.e., carry electrical current with no energy loss. The technique, described in the October 30, 2009, issue of Science, could be used to engineer ultrathin films with "tunable" superconductivity for higher-efficiency electronic devices. http://www.physorg.com/news176045082.html Physics Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:25:20 EST news176045082 (PhysOrg.com) -- Preventing the havoc wrought when freezing rain collects on roads, power lines, and aircrafts could be only a few nanometers away. A University of Pittsburgh-led team demonstrates in the Nov. 3 edition of Langmuir a nanoparticle-based coating developed in the lab of Di Gao, a chemical and petroleum engineering professor in Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering, that thwarts the buildup of ice on solid surfaces and can be easily applied. http://www.physorg.com/news176044143.html Chemistry Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:09:54 EST news176044143 The first fundamental studies of the dependence of ferroelectric domain configuration and switching behavior on the shape of epitaxial BiFeO3 (BFO) nanostructures has been reported by users from Northwestern University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, and Argonne`s Materials Science Division working collaboratively with CNM`s Nanofabrication & Devices Group. http://www.physorg.com/news175236233.html Nanotechnology Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:44:24 EST news175236233 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit "nanostructure films" on various surfaces, which may first find use as coatings for eyeglasses that cost less and work better. http://www.physorg.com/news172321412.html Nanotechnology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:04:16 EST news172321412 (PhysOrg.com) -- Those who like to watch spy movies like `Mission Impossible` are familiar with the self-destructing messages that inform the secret agents of the details of their mission and then dissolve in a puff of smoke. In the real world, there is serious interest in materials that don't exactly destroy themselves, but that store texts or images for a predetermined amount of time. http://www.physorg.com/news170495261.html Nanotechnology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:48:33 EST news170495261 (PhysOrg.com) -- Students who learn history by watching historically based blockbuster movies may be doomed to repeat the historical mistakes portrayed within them, suggests a new study from Washington University in St. Louis. http://www.physorg.com/news168708158.html Other Sciences Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:23:08 EST news168708158 University of Washington researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electrical current is carried by tiny bubbles and channels that form inside nanoscale solar cells, paving the way for development of more efficient materials. http://www.physorg.com/news168608261.html Nanotechnology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:38:12 EST news168608261 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of economically viable solar power cells--cheap, flexible and easy to make--has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where scientists have deepened their understanding of the complex organic films at the heart of the devices. http://www.physorg.com/news168018281.html Physics Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:45:35 EST news168018281 A recent breakthrough by researchers at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute sees for the first time the creation of thin films with controllable electronic properties. This discovery could have a large impact on future applications in sensors and computing. The international collaboration of researchers from the Universities of Basel and Heidelberg and the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) have published the work in the prestigious scientific journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news167060684.html Nanotechnology Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:45:11 EST news167060684 Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest energy with CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) or CIGS-related materials. CIGS panels have a high efficiency potential, may be cheaper to produce and would use less raw materials than silicon solar panels. But unfortunately, manufacturing of CIGS panels on a commercial scale has thus far proven to be difficult. http://www.physorg.com/news166192650.html Nanotechnology Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:38:04 EST news166192650 Not only video shops are struggling with the digitisation of films. Digitisation is also giving rise to problems in a completely different area. Film archives and laboratories have built up their work around the analogue film and due to the possibilities of digitisation are now confronted with a wide range of opportunities and problems. Dutch-sponsored researcher Giovanna Fossati investigated how film scholars can provide guidance to archives and laboratories. http://www.physorg.com/news164896229.html Technology Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:30:01 EST news164896229 A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at MIT. http://www.physorg.com/news164337084.html Technology Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:11:37 EST news164337084 Germany is one of the leading countries when it comes to efforts related to renewable energy sources. Therefore, it is no surprise that the Institute of Condensed Matter and Solid State Optics at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena, Germany, is a place where scientists are hard at work looking for ways to improve current solar cell technology. http://www.physorg.com/news164035942.html Nanotechnology Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:32:52 EST news164035942 Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don't disintegrate at the slightest touch. http://www.physorg.com/news163770109.html Nanotechnology Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:42:08 EST news163770109 (AP) -- Think the only way to see a big-screen movie is while slurping a 64-oz. soft drink, eating a $5 candy bar and shushing the wannabe film critic behind you? That's not the case anymore, thanks to people like John Young, creator of the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In and part of a loosely knit network of celluloid renegades resurrecting the drive-in for a new age. http://www.physorg.com/news163753928.html Technology Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:12:32 EST news163753928 A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin. http://www.physorg.com/news163676931.html Physics Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:49:24 EST news163676931 The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, according to a team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin. http://www.physorg.com/news160924908.html Nanotechnology Thu, 07 May 2009 14:22:29 EST news160924908 (PhysOrg.com) -- By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered an efficient new approach to measure key structural properties of nanoscale metal-oxide films used in high-speed integrated circuits. Their technique, described in a recent paper,* could become an important quality-control tool to help monitor semiconductor manufacturing processes and evaluate new insulating materials. http://www.physorg.com/news160839248.html Physics Wed, 06 May 2009 14:35:33 EST news160839248 (PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues hindering the development of medical electronic devices capable of being implanted in the human body is the lack of suitable materials. Most semiconducting materials are stiff and brittle, while human tissue is soft and pliable. Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), appear to have taken a key step forward in implantable electronics research. http://www.physorg.com/news160652779.html Nanotechnology Mon, 04 May 2009 10:48:24 EST news160652779 The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to many, has been solved with the help of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers and the National Geographic Society. http://www.physorg.com/news160318477.html Other Sciences Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:55:22 EST news160318477 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have fabricated and tested a unique biosensor that measures concentrations of potassium and hydrogen ions in the human heart with high specificity. The research could lead to a superior method of monitoring indicators of acute myocardial ischemia, or AMI, one of the leading causes of cardiovascular failure. http://www.physorg.com/news159719279.html Physics Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:28:48 EST news159719279 Just one click and the window turns into a display. At the Hannover Messe from April 20 to 24, Fraunhofer research scientists will be demonstrating light-permeable conductive coatings as the basis for transparent displays. http://www.physorg.com/news158947829.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:11:32 EST news158947829 (PhysOrg.com) -- Reprogrammable product tags, bendable displays and flexible solar cells--the field of organic semiconductor research is advancing these possibilities toward reality. By layering hydrocarbon molecules on thin plastic sheets, scientists can make flexible electronics on the cheap. http://www.physorg.com/news158342698.html Physics Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:05:57 EST news158342698 A stolen copy of the film "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" has leapt around the Internet being downloaded from file sharing websites. http://www.physorg.com/news157871286.html Technology Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:08:30 EST news157871286 It is a completely transparent and flexible energy conversion and storage device that you can bend and twist like a poker card. http://www.physorg.com/news157721337.html Nanotechnology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:29:27 EST news157721337 The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. http://www.physorg.com/news156349503.html Physics Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:25:42 EST news156349503