News tagged with electrochemical and solid state letters


Slimmer Nanorods Good Fit for Next-Gen 3-D Computer Chips

Slimmer Nanorods Good Fit for Next-Gen 3-D Computer Chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology.





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Broken genomes behind breast cancers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The first detailed search of breast cancer genomes to uncover genomic rearrangements is published today. The team characterised the ways in which the human genome is broken and put back together in 24 cases of breast cancer.


Tiny nano-electromagnets turn a cloak of invisibility into a possibility

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 7

A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light.


Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.


Dental delight! Tooth of sea urchin shows formation of biominerals

Dental delight! Tooth of sea urchin shows formation of biominerals

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the most common minerals in biology, including those in bones and shells, have a mysterious structure: Their crystals are positioned in the same orientation, making them behave as ...


Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning

Technology / Other

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute ...


Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care (AP)

Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 19, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 9

(AP) -- Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote for historic health care legislation Saturday, putting President Barack Obama's signature issue firmly on a path ...


Caltech scientists discover fog on Titan

Scientists discover fog on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. ...


Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky

Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It looked like a light show in Elkton, Md., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, as NASA ground tested a full-scale attitude control motor, or ACM. The motor operated with precision as its elaborate eight-valve ...


Beaming in on Warm Dense Matter (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II (NDCX-II) now under construction at Berkeley Lab will deliver a high-current pulse of lithium ions to a foil target almost simultaneously, momentarily heating ...


Computer simulation strengthens link between climate change and release of subsea methane

Computer simulation strengthens link between climate change and release of subsea methane

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 58

(PhysOrg.com) -- A first-of-its-kind computer simulation that mirrors real-world observations of methane bubbling up from a seabed in the Arctic Ocean provides further evidence that warming oceans may unleash ...



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