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March 30, 2016

An Up-Close View of Bacterial 'Motors'

Nature-Inspired Nanotubes Assemble Themselves

Nanocrystal Self-Assembly Sheds Its Secrets

Splitting Water Becomes Easier, Cheaper

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Separating Charge and Discharge in Measuring Next-Generation Car Batteries

Mar. 29, 2016 — Lithium ion phosphate batteries are widely used to power the batteries in electric cars, but, unlike the amount of gas in a fuel tank, their state of charge can’t be measured directly by a physical ... read more

PET Imaging Technology Advanced to Improve Patient's Response to Cancer Treatment

Mar. 28, 2016 — A promising new discovery could lead to a new method of identifying cancer patients that express high levels of an enzyme and are more likely to ... read more

New Nanoparticle Reveals Cancer Treatment Effectiveness in Real Time

Mar. 28, 2016 — A new technique offers a new approach and a read out on the effectiveness of chemotherapy in as few as eight hours after treatment. The technology can also be used for ... read more

How to Make Metal Alloys That Stand Up to Hydrogen

Mar. 29, 2016 — Researchers have found a new approach to preventing embrittlement that could be useful in nuclear reactors. High-tech metal alloys are widely used in important materials such ... read more

Revealing the Ion Transport at Nanoscale

Mar. 29, 2016 — A law of physics having to do with electron transport at nanoscale can also be analogously applied to the ion transport, new research shows. This discovery provides insight ... read more

Researchers Developed Manufacturing Method for Batteries With Organic Electrode Materials

Mar. 29, 2016 — With people wanting to use smaller electronic devices, smaller energy storage systems are needed. Researchers have ... read more

New Method of Trapping Multiple Particles Using Fluidics

Mar. 28, 2016 — Precise control of an individual particle or molecule is a difficult task. Controlling multiple particles simultaneously is an even more challenging endeavor. Researchers ... read more

Physicists 'Undiscovered' Technetium Carbide

Mar. 28, 2016 — Technetium carbide does not exist -- it was pure technetium that was mistakenly considered as such, say physicists. This is important from the view point of chemistry of ... read more

Safer, Cheaper, 'Greener,' More Efficient System for the Synthesis of Organic Compounds

Mar. 28, 2016 — Chemists have devised a safer, more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient water-based system for the synthesis of organic ... read more

Engineering Black Gold, as Light as the Bones of Birds

Mar. 28, 2016 — A new material is more solid and 30 percent lighter than standard gold, scientists report. In their study, the team investigated grain boundaries in nanocrystalline np-Au and ... read more

Student-Built Exoskeleton Mimics Human Knee

Robot Greets Travelers at Tokyo Airport

First Drone Delivery To A US Urban Area Goes Off Without A Hitch

Raw: Underwater Video of Sunken Navy Tug

Mimicking a Blood Vessel to Create a 'Bridge' to Better Medicine and Precision Treatment

Mar. 29, 2016 — A technique has been developed to observe cell to cell interaction at the nanoscale under micro-fluid conditions. They have successfully applied the technique to the study of blood vessel ... read more

Effective Graphene Doping Depends on Substrate Material

Mar. 29, 2016 — Physicists have discovered unexpected effects in doped graphene. They investigated samples of the carbon compound enriched with the foreign atom nitrogen on various substrate materials. Unwanted ... read more

Securing Connected Industry

Mar. 29, 2016 — The Industrial Data Space gives companies security and control over their data. Now experts show how it all works in practice. Sample applications include an air freight container that organizes and ... read more

Smallest Television Antenna in the World Has Extraordinary Reception

Mar. 28, 2016 — Researchers have developed a dual antenna for broadcast TV with features that distinguish it from others already available worldwide. It is 11 centimeters long and 6.5 centimeters wide, six ... read more

Charged Salts Can Extract Specific Central Lanthanide Elements, Scientists Show

Mar. 28, 2016 — Researchers wanted to find out if it was possible to make a molecule that could selectively bind to metal cations in the middle of the lanthanide series. The team provided a proof-of-principle in a ... read more

New Terahertz Source Could Strengthen Sensing Applications

Mar. 28, 2016 — Researchers have developed a room temperature, continuous wave, monolithic tunable terahertz source that could lead to advances in biosensing, homeland security, and space ... read more

Survey Gives Clearer View of Risky Leaks from Gas Mains

Mar. 28, 2016 — Precise measurements of leaks from natural gas pipelines across metropolitan Boston have demonstrated that almost a sixth of the leaks qualified as potentially explosive, and that a handful of leaks ... read more

qPAINT Counts Biomolecules Inside Cells

Mar. 28, 2016 — A new analytical tool has forged ahead with its previously developed DNA-PAINT and Exchange-PAINT super-resolution microscopy platform to now count different molecular species in biological samples ... read more

Researchers Make Biosensor One Million Times More Sensitive

Mar. 28, 2016 — To provide oncologists a way to detect a single molecule of an enzyme produced by circulating cancer cells, physicists and engineers have developed an optical sensor, based on nanostructured ... read more

Quantum Effects at Work in the World's Smelliest Superconductor

Mar. 28, 2016 — Quantum effects are the reason that hydrogen sulphide -- which has the distinct smell of rotten eggs -- behaves as a superconductor at record-breaking temperatures, which may aid in the search for ... read more

Multilingual Circuit: 'Optomechanical Transducer' Links Sound, Light, Radio Waves

Mar. 28, 2016 — A "piezo-optomechanical circuit" has been developed that converts signals among optical, acoustic and radio waves. A system based on this design could move and store information in ... read more

View of the Colorful Microcosm Within a Proton

Mar. 28, 2016 — The proton sounds like a simple object, but it's not. Inside, there's a teeming microcosm of quarks and gluons with properties such as spin and "color" charge that contribute to ... read more

New Materials: Metal Foam Handles Heat Better Than Steel

Mar. 28, 2016 — A new study finds that novel light-weight composite metal foams are significantly more effective at insulating against high heat than the conventional base metals and alloys that they're made ... read more

Computer Simulation Discloses New Effect of Cavitation

Mar. 26, 2016 — Researchers have discovered a so far unknown formation mechanism of cavitation bubbles by means of a model calculation. In a new article, they describe how oil-repellent and oil-attracting surfaces ... read more

New Method to Identify Nanoparticles in Tissue May Shed Light on Their Health Impact

Mar. 26, 2016 — A team of researchers has demonstrated a pioneering method for the rapid visualization and identification of engineered nanoparticles in ... read more

Sniffing out a Dangerous Vapor

Mar. 26, 2016 — Engineers have developed a new type of fiber material for a handheld scanner that can detect small traces of alkane fuel vapor, a valuable advancement that could be an early-warning signal for leaks ... read more

New Insights Into Human Tears Could Lead to More Comfortable Contact Lenses

Mar. 25, 2016 — Chemical engineers have discovered mechanical properties of the tear film on the eye's surface that can be used to manufacture contact lenses that more closely mimic the ... read more

New Class of Molecular 'Lightbulbs' Illuminate MRI

Mar. 25, 2016 — Scientists have discovered a new class of molecular tags that enhance MRI signals by 10,000-fold and generate detectable signals that last over an hour. The tags are biocompatible and inexpensive to ... read more

Unlocking the Gates to Quantum Computing

Mar. 25, 2016 — Researchers have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated this by experimentally realizing a challenging circuit -- ... read more

Flexible Energy Storage Is Smaller, Cheaper, Better

Mar. 25, 2016 — Engineers have developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency transformers, needed for more flexible energy storage ... read more

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