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. (PhysOrg.com) -- The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ever before. http://www.physorg.com/news154175827.html Physics Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:37:55 EST news154175827 (PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts with the interstellar medium - the matter that exists between the stars within a galaxy. http://www.physorg.com/news154022294.html Physics Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:58:54 EST news154022294 (PhysOrg.com) -- An in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. has found that plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030. http://www.physorg.com/news153499424.html Technology Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:44:24 EST news153499424 (PhysOrg.com) -- `In photonic crystals, the ability to control the structure of a material in full three dimensional space, allows you to control the way that light flows through it,` John Rogers tells PhysOrg.com. `This approach to photonic materials can be useful in applications ranging from communications to lasers to optical waveguides.` http://www.physorg.com/news151758574.html Physics Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:10:25 EST news151758574 (PhysOrg.com) -- The worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex applications, Sandia simulations have found. http://www.physorg.com/news151158992.html Technology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:36:32 EST news151158992