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Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels

Visitors to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building may have experienced a curious acoustic feature that allows a person to whisper softly at one side of the cavernous, half-domed room and for another on ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR

For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Colorful solar instrument treks east for a new career

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the world's most colorful solar instruments is moving across country for a new life dissecting the chemistry of comets and stars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physics team calculates that graphene disks could be complete optical absorbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In optical devices designed and used to collect light, there has always been a loss of light due to reflection, now, new research by a team of physicists from Spain and England has found, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers boost solar concentrator efficiency

A team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, has redesigned luminescent solar concentrators to be more efficient at sending sunlight to solar cells.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

70 percent of Europeans suffer from low vitamin D levels

A group of experts has prepared a report on vitamin D supplementation for menopausal women after it was revealed that Europeans have suffered an alarming decrease in their levels of this vitamin. In their ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Deer antlers inspire a new theory on osteoporosis

The loss of manganese could mean that calcium does not stick to bones and could cause osteoporosis. This is the new theory put forward by researchers at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in Spain ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Graphene offers protection from intense laser pulses

Researchers from Singapore and the UK have jointly announced a new benchmark in broadband, non-linear optical-limiting behavior using single-sheet graphene dispersions in a variety of heavy-atom solvents and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Study resolves century-long debate over how to describe electromagnetic momentum density in matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the University of British Columbia have shown that the interaction between a light pulse and a light-absorbing object, including the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Some 'low-gluten' beer contains high levels of gluten

Beer tested in a new study, including some brands labeled "low-gluten," contains levels of hordein, the form of gluten present in barley, that could cause symptoms in patients with celiac disease (CD), the ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Faster colloidal fluorescence emitters: Nanoplatelets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Significant advances in the application of colloidal structures as light emitters and lasers may soon be realized following the discovery of very fast fluorescence emission rates in colloidal ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists use laser imaging to assess safety of zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreen

Ultra-tiny zinc oxide (ZnO) particles with dimensions less than one-ten-millionth of a meter are among the ingredients list of some commercially available sunscreen products, raising concerns about whether ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A single polymer can be used to fabricate both thin-film transistors and solar cells

Polymers are the material of choice for making thin-film transistors and solar cells. They are also potentially suitable for manufacture using economical, high-throughput techniques, such as roll-to-roll and inkjet printing ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Astronomers find pristine clouds of primordial gas from the early Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, astronomers have found pristine clouds of the primordial gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang. The composition of the gas matches theoretical predictions, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Researchers create new nanostructure that absorbs broad spectrum of light from all angles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working at Cal Tech, have taken an idea first proposed by Koray Aydin, now at Northwestern and have created a new nanostructure that appears to be capable of absorbing light of any polarization ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

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