News tagged with microscopic scales
Birds of a feather: Study finds particles, molecules prefer not to mix
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the world of small things, shape, order and orientation are surprisingly important, according to findings from a new study by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Natural solar collectors on butterfly wings inspire more powerful solar cells
Feb 05, 2009 |
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The discovery that butterfly wings have scales that act as tiny solar collectors has led scientists in China and Japan to design a more efficient solar cell that could be used for powering homes, businesses, ...
A new discovery helps us to understand the complex nature of earthquakes
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Jul 08, 2005 |
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Álvaro Corral, a physicist at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, has discovered that the structure of the recurrence time of earthquakes, which is the time interval between successive earthquakes, is similar to the spatial ...
Roadrunner supercomputer simulates nanoscale material failure
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Very tiny wires, called nanowires, made from such metals as silver and gold, may play a crucial role as electrical or mechanical switches in the development of future-generation ultrasmall nanodevices.
Magnetic Snakes Create Water Current
Sep 24, 2007 |
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Physicists at Argonne National Laboratory have found that magnetic particles suspended in water and subjected to an alternating magnetic field will form snake-shaped structures that can control the flow of ...
A new chemical method for distinguishing between farmed and wild salmon
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Wild salmon and farmed salmon can now be distinguished from each other by a technique that examines the chemistry of their scales.
Ocean acidification could have broad effects on marine ecosystems
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Concern about increasing ocean acidification has often focused on its potential effects on coral reefs, but broader disruptions of biological processes in the oceans may be more significant, according to Donald Potts, a professor ...
Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales ...
Finding out what the Big Bang and ink jets have in common
Jun 03, 2008 |
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It often turns out there is more to commonplace everyday events than meets the eye. The folding of paper, or fall of water droplets from a tap, are two such events, both of which involve the creation of singularities requiring ...
Bioengineers develop 'microscope on a chip'
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Jul 28, 2008 |
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact high-resolution microscope, small enough to fit on a finger tip. This ...
Stirred, not shaken: Bio-inspired cilia mix medical reagents at small scales
Jun 30, 2009 |
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The equipment used for biomedical research is shrinking, but the physical properties of the fluids under investigation are not changing. This creates a problem: the reservoirs that hold the liquid are now ...
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