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Scientists create highly ordered artificial spin ice using nanotechnology

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has succeeded in creating artificial spin ice in a state of thermal equilibrium for the first time, allowing them to examine the precise configuration ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists find evidence of new state of matter in a simple oxide

Symmetry is a fundamental concept in physics. Our ‘standard model’ of particle physics, for example, predicts that matter and anti-matter should have been created in equal amounts at the big bang, yet our ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (25) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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High planetary tilt lowers odds for life?

Highly-tilted worlds would have extreme seasons, subjecting life to alternating periods of scorching and subzero temperatures. This could make the development of all but hardiest, simplest creatures a long ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

German engineers mimic humpback whale to increase helicopter stability

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whale researchers have known for some time that humpback whales are able to perform feats of underwater acrobatics that belie their huge size and that some of that ability is partly due to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Studying the chemistry as it happens in catalytic reactions

(PhysOrg.com) -- While retaining their speed, catalysts have lost some of their secrets, thanks to a new probe built by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to help clarify the steps catalysts ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MSU technology spin-out company to market portable biohazard detection

A new company formed around Michigan State University nanotechnology promises to move speedy detection of deadly pathogens and toxins from the laboratory directly to the field.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Durable NASA rover beginning ninth year of Mars work

(PhysOrg.com) -- Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gadgets: 2012 Consumer Electronics Show picks

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas can be considered a toy store for the electronics world, with mile after mile of showrooms of the latest and greatest.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New imaging techniques prove valuable tools to assess stroke risk

(Medical Xpress) -- Vanderbilt radiologists are rolling out powerful new imaging techniques that provide clearer pictures of the delicate ebb and flow of blood through brain tissue in patients at risk for stroke.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New scanner allows liquids back into aircraft cabin baggage

Cobalt Light Systems has received European approval for its revolutionary INSIGHT100 bottle scanner, which enables aircraft passengers to carry liquid items larger than 100ml once more. Airports could ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

UA makes mirrors for world's largest telescope

(PhysOrg.com) -- The second of seven 27-foot diameter mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope was cast on Jan. 14 inside a rotating furnace at the UA's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Project to pour water into volcano to make power

(AP) -- Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 14, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (18) | comments 27


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