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Mice Levitated for Space Research
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have managed to levitate young mice in research carried out for NASA. Levitated mice may help research on bone density loss during long exposures to low gravity, such as in space ...
Carbon nanotubes are superior to metals for electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 20, 2009 |
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In the quest to pack ever-smaller electronic devices more densely with integrated circuits, nanotechnology researchers keep running up against some unpleasant truths: higher current density induces electromigration ...
Spinning Water Droplets Could Provide Insights into Black Holes, Atomic Nuclei
Dec 15, 2008 |
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By magnetically levitating water droplets, and using a “liquid electric motor” technique to spin them, researchers can investigate how the droplets change shape. Rather than being just a curious experiment, ...
Breakthrough experiment on high-temperature superconductors
Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New information about the metallic state from which high temperature superconductivity emerges, has been revealed in an innovative experiment performed at the University of Bristol.
Room temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature superconductivity, according to a paper published in today's edition of the scientific ...
New electrostatic-based DNA microarray technique could revolutionize medical diagnostics
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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The dream of personalized medicine — in which diagnostics, risk predictions and treatment decisions are based on a patient's genetic profile — may be on the verge of being expanded beyond the wealthiest of ...
MIT tests unique approach to fusion power
Mar 28, 2008 |
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An MIT and Columbia University team has successfully tested a novel reactor that could chart a new path toward nuclear fusion, which could become a safe, reliable and nearly limitless source of energy.
Physicists report novel interaction between superconductivity and magnetism
Jan 11, 2008 |
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An international collaboration of researchers led by Morten Ring Eskildsen, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered an altogether new way in which superconducting electrons can interact ...
Scientists sort cells with beams of light
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Separating out particular kinds of cells from a sample could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system developed by MIT researchers that involves levitating the cells with light.
A step nearer to understanding superconductivity
Jun 06, 2007 |
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Transporting energy without any loss, travelling in magnetically levitated trains, carrying out medical imaging (MRI) with small-scale equipment: all these things could come true if we had superconducting materials that worked ...
New Spin Source Could Offer Insight Into Gravity
Mar 06, 2007 |
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“We have a situation in physics where we understand very well the quantum forces,” Clive Speake tells PhysOrg.com. “But gravity, as we understand it, is a problem.”
Maglev launch assist technology may enable commercial space travel
Feb 21, 2007 |
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The same technology used in magnetically levitated ("maglev") trains may give spaceships a low-cost, stable boost for the future of space travel—possibly even for joy rides. A research group from two universities ...
Findings Suggest Jets Bursting From Martian Ice Cap
Aug 17, 2006 |
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Every spring brings violent eruptions to the south polar ice cap of Mars, according to researchers interpreting new observations by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
Scientists design Maglev car with greater stability
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Since the late ‘60s, scientists have been designing, building and operating “flying trains,” or magnetically levitated (“Maglev”) systems. However, the sci-fi-like technology still faces challenges for increased ...
New 'metal sandwich' may break superconductor record
May 08, 2006 |
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After an exhaustive data search for new compounds, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have discovered a theoretical "metal sandwich" that is expected to be a good superconductor. Superconductive ...
