'Electronic gridlock' that blocks higher temperature cuprate superconductors is imaged by Cornell researchers
Superconductivity — the conduction of electricity with zero resistance — sometimes can, it seems, become stalled by a form of electronic "gridlock." view more (2007-03-06)
New method will 'shake up' the world of virus detection
A team of Cambridge scientists have invented a new method that could revolutionise the way scientists detect viruses. It works by 'vibrating' viruses and listening to the sound they make as they break away from a surface. The secret lies in tiny quartz crystals less than 1cm in diameter and 1mm thick. An antibody is used to bind the virus to the... view more... (2001-08-30)
Yale scientists visualize the machinery of mRNA splicing
Recent research at Yale provided a glimpse of the ancient mechanism that helped diversify our genomes; it illuminated a relationship between gene processing in humans and the most primitive organisms by creating the first crystal structure of a crucial self-splicing region of RNA. view more (2008-04-07)
Light is shed on new fibre's potential to change technology
Photonic crystal fibre's ability to create broad spectra of light, which will be the basis for important developments in technology, has been explained for the first time in an article in the leading science journal Nature-Photonics. view more (2007-12-11)
With double frequency to deeper blue
Light transports data at high speed over fibre-optic networks. Light measures and creates images of large and small objects in scanners and microscopes. Light writes information onto all sorts of recording media and surfaces. The best-quality light is produced by lasers, which have meanwhile become an indispensable tool - not only in medicine and... view more... (2003-07-01)
Crystals For Extreme Electronics
Like silicon, silicon carbide is semiconductor and in some aspects, its characteristics are even better. Electrical strength of silicon carbide is ten times higher than that of silicon, heat conductivity is three times higher. Crystals of silicon carbide are almost perfect for power electronics. They can work at high current density (more than 10... view more... (2002-01-24)
Scientists create "antibubbles" in Belgian beer
Physicists from the University of Lie'ge in Belgium have succeeded in creating antibubbles (the exact opposite of bubbles) in one of Belgium's most famous exports - beer - demonstrating what British real-ale drinkers have claimed for a long time: that Belgian beer actually is a lot like dish-water! Research to be published today in the New Journal... view more... (2003-12-17)
ESA's 'shipping forecast' - from Titan!
ESA could be releasing its own marine weather report next January - but not for any Earthly ocean. Thanks to the NASA/ESA Cassini/Huygens mission, the first data about an extraterrestrial ocean may finally be received, ending 25 years of scientific speculation. There is a growing body of evidence that at least part of Titan's surface is covered... view more... (2004-04-02)
Toothpick: New molecular tag IDs bone and tooth minerals
Enlisting an army of plant viruses to their cause, materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have identified a small biomolecule that binds specifically to one of the key crystal structures of the body-the calcium compound that is the basic building block of teeth and bone. With refinements, the researchers... view more... (2008-07-11)
Laser Instead Of A Diamond Saw
St. Petersburg physicists have developed a plant that allows to cut sapphire crystals into almost ideally smooth plates being fractions of millimeter thick. The approach suggested by the researchers fundamentally differs from the traditional one. They suggest that sapphire should not be sawn by a saw, but split by laser. view more (2004-10-22)
U of T team heats up gold to surprising effect: it gets harder not softer
Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact opposite. view more (2009-01-23)
Bristleworms engineer optics - Photon02
Computer and optical communications engineers are now using optical structures to produce faster, more powerful, light-based processors and networks. However, according to Dr Andrew Parker from Oxford University, they are well behind the times as nature has been making these optical structures for at least 515 million years. He and his team are... view more... (2002-08-28)
Vise squad: Putting the squeeze on a crystal leads to novel electronics
A clever materials science technique that uses a silicon crystal as a sort of nanoscale vise to squeeze another crystal into a more useful shape may launch a new class of electronic devices that remember their last state even after power is turned off. view more (2009-05-11)
Development of environmentally friendly metal finishing process
The University of Leicester is playing a key part in a network of 33 companies and universities, set up to develop pioneering new processes for metal coatings which will offer benefits to a wide range of industries, including automotive and aerospace component manufacturers. view more (2004-11-25)
Quasicrystal mystery unraveled with computer simulation
The method to the madness of quasicrystals has been a mystery to scientists. Quasicrystals are solids whose atoms aren't arranged in a repeating pattern, as they are in ordinary crystals. Yet they form intricate patterns that are technologically useful. view more (2008-03-10)
Intelligent windows technology
Car rear windows, photographic camera filters, large screens, sunglasses, etc. Electrochromic materials are experiencing a huge surge in their applications. And it is the CIDETEC technology centre at Donostia-San Sebastian in the Basque Country that has just brought to a conclusion a project involving the synthesis and development of... view more... (2004-03-05)
Many receptor models used in drug design may not be useful after all
It may very well be that models used for the design of new drugs have to be regarded as impractical. This is the sobering though important conclusion of the work of two Leiden University scientists published in Science this week. view more (2008-10-03)
Queen's scientists find new way to battle MRSA
Experts from Queen's University Belfast have developed new agents to fight MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The fluids are a class of ionic liquids that not only kill colonies of these dangerous microbes, they also prevent their growth. view more (2009-03-25)
Iron For Crystals Or Cheap Tomographs
Unlike the traditional X-ray photography, which imprints a black-and-white picture on the film, the X-ray tomograph reproduces coloured three-dimensional `movies` about the organs` behavior on the computer screen. The X-ray tomograph enables the scientists to find a thrombus in a blood vessel, to observe the dynamics of the abnormality of the... view more... (2002-06-07)
Flexible electronics advance boosts performance, manufacturing
Flexible electronics made with organic, or carbon-based, transistors could enable technologies such as low-cost sensors on product packaging and ''electronic paper'' displays as thin and floppy as a placemat. view more (2006-12-14)
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