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Researchers suspend, image single DNA molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying chemical modifications in the chromosomes of cells is akin to searching for changes in coiled spaghetti. Scientists at Cornell have figured out how to stretch out tangled strands ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unlocking jams in fluid materials: A theoretical model to understand how to best avoid jamming of soft matter

In a study recently published in European Physical Journal E (EPJE), a German scientist constructed a theoretical model to understand how to best avoid jamming of soft matter that can be applied in food and cosmetics produc ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Nano 'balls' can be used to manipulate the properties of glass

(PhysOrg.com) -- Liquid or glass, hard or soft -- researchers at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, are investigating a new 'model material' that can adopt a series of different properties. This is ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels

Visitors to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building may have experienced a curious acoustic feature that allows a person to whisper softly at one side of the cavernous, half-domed room and for another on ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Under the electron microscope -- A 3-D image of an individual protein

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Gang Ren whirls the controls of his cryo-electron microscope, he compares it to fine-tuning the gearshift and brakes of a racing bicycle. But this machine at the U.S. Department of Energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Magnetic actuation enables nanoscale thermal analysis

Polymer nano-films and nano-composites are used in a wide variety of applications from food packaging to sports equipment to automotive and aerospace applications. Thermal analysis is routinely used to analyze ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Counting atoms with glass fiber

(PhysOrg.com) -- Glass fiber cables are indispensable for the internet – now they can also be used as a quantum physics lab. The Vienna University of Technology is the only research facility in the world, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

iPads become child's play

(AP) -- Make room in the toy box for the iPad.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Japanese researchers turn a crab shell transparent

A group of researchers working out of Kyoto University in Japan have successfully transformed a normal crab into one that is transparent. As they describe in their paper published in the British Royal Society ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Listening to the stars

It is almost night on the island of Puerto Rico. Astronomer Joanna Rankin raises her head toward the sky. A few of the brightest stars shine through blue cracks in a ragged dome of gray clouds. To her back, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Gumby-like flexible robot crawls in tight spaces (w/ video)

Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces.

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 16

French team invents tough, reheatable plastic (w/ video)

A common feature of sailboards, aircraft and electronic circuits is that they all contain resins used for their lightness, strength and resistance. However, once cured, these resins can no longer be reshaped. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plant with 'eggbeater' testure inspires waterproof coating

A floating weed that clogs waterways around the world has at least one redeeming feature: It's inspired a high-tech waterproof coating intended for boats and submarines.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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