News tagged with natural electric
Choreographing dance of electrons offers promise in pursuit of quantum computers
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Keeping electronics cool: Findings on modified form of graphene could have impacts in managing heat dissipation
A University of California, Riverside engineering professor and a team of researchers have made a breakthrough discovery with graphene, a material that could play a major role in keeping laptops and other electronic devices ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Record conductivity achieved in strained lattice organic semiconductor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic semiconductors could usher in an era of foldable smartphones, better high-definition television screens and clothing made of materials that can harvest energy from the sun needed to ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Researcher creates neurons that light up as they fire
In a scientific first that potentially could shed new light on how signals travel in the brain, how learning alters neural pathways, and might lead to speedier drug development, scientists at Harvard have created genetically-altered ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Scientists harness the power of electricity in the brain
(Medical Xpress) -- A paralyzed patient may someday be able to "think" a foot into flexing or a leg into moving, using technology that harnesses the power of electricity in the brain, and scientists at University of Michigan ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Study: Ozone from rock fracture could serve as earthquake early warning
Researchers the world over are seeking reliable ways to predict earthquakes, focusing on identifying seismic precursors that, if detected early enough, could serve as early warnings.
Nov 17, 2011 |
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Pair claim they have turned hydrogen to metal
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many have tried, but none have succeeded. For at least a hundred years, scientists looking at hydrogen have scratched their chins when musing over the fact that it, as an alkali metal, by ...
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Americans using more fossil fuels
American energy use went back up in 2010 compared to 2009, when consumption was at a 12-year low. The United States used more fossil fuels in 2010 than in 2009, while renewable electricity remained approximately ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 09, 2011 |
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'Microring' device could aid in future optical technologies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a device small enough to fit on a computer chip that converts continuous laser light ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Monkeys feel, move virtual objects using only their brains (w/ video)
(Medical Xpress) -- In a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two monkeys trained at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Exotic quantum states: A new research approach
(PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretical physicists of the University of Innsbruck have formulated a new concept to engineer exotic, so-called topological states of matter in quantum mechanical many-body systems. They ...
Oct 03, 2011 |
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How graphene's electrical properties can be tuned
An accidental discovery in a physicist's laboratory at the University of California, Riverside provides a unique route for tuning the electrical properties of graphene, nature's thinnest elastic material. ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Research points to potential therapy for tumor-associated epilepsy
Glioma, one of the most deadly and common types of brain tumor, is often associated with seizures, but the origins of these seizures and effective treatments for them have been elusive. Now a team funded by the National Institutes ...
Sep 11, 2011 |
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Locating the elusive: Scientists observe how material at room temperature exhibits 'multiferroic' properties
German researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in close collaboration with colleagues in France and UK, have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature. ...
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Inexpensive catalyst that makes hydrogen gas 10 times faster than natural enzyme
Looking to nature for their muse, researchers have used a common protein to guide the design of a material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas. The synthetic material works 10 times faster than the original ...
Aug 11, 2011 |
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