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Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn

Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have used lasers to create the first practical macroscopic yarns from boron nitride fibers, opening the door for an array of applications, from radiation-shielded spacecraft to ...


Snowman

Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (18) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...


Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules

Using lasers to cool and manipulate molecules

Physics / General Physics

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "For years, we have been using laser cooling to trap and manipulate atoms," David DeMille tells PhysOrg.com. "This has been very useful for both basic science and many applications. Recent ...


Fine-tuned

Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning

It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning—learning ...


Manufacturing, reinvented

Technology / Software

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the architecture, hardware and software that will enable super-agile distributed corporations capable of reconfiguring themselves on the fly. It promises to make 'made-to-order' ...


Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Space technology optimises windmill efficiency

Technology / Engineering

created 21 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...


Television control for the remote

Technology / Telecom

created 2 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cheap way to deliver interactive communications to remote communities has been successfully tested in Brazil and Italy.


PSA value at 2 years post-treatment can predict long-term survival in prostate cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prostate cancer patients who have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value of less than or equal to 1.5 at two years after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) are less likely to have a cancer recurrence and cancer-related ...


Second-line CML drugs evoke faster response than front-line therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two medications approved as treatment for drug-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia continue to provide patients with quicker, better responses as a first treatment than the existing front-line drug, researchers at The University ...



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