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Dutch artist creating sculpture to produce a 'glacier' out of thin air in the desert

Is it a piece of art, or a groundbreaking water experiment in the desert?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Visions of a 'car-free future'

City centers could become virtually car-free over the next 20 years under new plans proposed by University of Leeds transport researchers.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 37

Three for the price of one -- mobile electrons multiplied in quantum dot films

Researchers of the Opto-electronic Materials section of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and Toyota Europe have demonstrated that several mobile electrons can be produced by the absorption of a single light ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Luminous grains of sand determine year of historic storm flood

Scientists at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands) have successfully matched a layer of sediment from the dunes near Heemskerk to a severe storm flood that occurred in either 1775 or 1776. This type ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hydrogen released to fuel cell more quickly when stored in metal nanoparticles

Researchers from TU Delft and VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands have demonstrated that the size of a metal alloy nanoparticle influences the speed with which hydrogen gas is released when stored in a metal hydride. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cheap and efficient solar cell made possible by linked nanoparticles

Researchers of the Chemical Engineering department and the Kavli institute of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have demonstrated that electrons can move freely in layers of linked semiconductor nanoparticles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Neutron scattering confirms DNA is as stretchy as nylon

(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutron scientists at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, France) have measured how fast sound travels along DNA to determine its ‘stiffness’. These findings help to explain how DNA folds, coils and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research confirms it's a small world, after all

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA-led research team has confirmed what Walt Disney told us all along: Earth really is a small world, after all.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Microbial study reveals sophisticated sensory response

All known biological sensory systems, including the familiar examples of the five human senses – vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch – have one thing in common: when exposed to a sustained change ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanowires offer opportunities for improved LEDs

Researchers from Dutch FOM Institute AMOLF, together with colleagues from Philips Research, Eindhoven University of Technology and Delft University of Technology, have made special nanostructures that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1


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