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Scientists aim to create self-propelling liquid, a new kind of matter

Mar 24, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers at Brandeis University in Massachusetts are inching close to the creation of a new kind of matter -- a self-propelling liquid. Scientists at Brandei...

Rare-earths become water-repellent only as they age

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Surfaces that have been coated with rare earth oxides develop water-repelling properties only after contact with air. Even at room temperature, chemical reactio...

New study maps space dust in 3-D

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Berkeley Lab-led research raises new questions about properties of dust in local and distant reaches of Milky Way. Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmi...

Pulverizing electronic waste is green, clean - and cold

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science have an idea to simplify electronic waste recycling: Crush it into nanodust. Specifically, th...

Researchers use light to remotely control curvature of plastics

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses light to get two-dimensional (2-D) plastic sheets to curve into three-dimens...

Visualizing nuclear radiation

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Extraordinary decontamination efforts are underway in areas affected by the 2011 nuclear accidents in Japan. The creation of total radioactivity maps is essenti...

Molecular 'treasure maps' to help discover new materials

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Southampton working with colleagues at the University of Liverpool have developed a new method which has the potential to revolu...

ADATS could assist X-planes with large, super-fast data transmission

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

A network and communication architecture that can more efficiently move data from research aircraft, while using half the bandwidth of traditional methods, coul...

Transparent ceramics make super-hard windows

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists have synthesised the first transparent sample of a popular industrial ceramic at DESY. The result is a super-hard window made of cubic silicon nitrid...

How fullerite becomes harder than diamond

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists have simulated the structure of a new material based on fullerite and single crystal diamond to show how this material can obtain ultrahigh hardness....

'Flying saucer' quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Fresh insights into living cells, brighter video projectors and more accurate medical tests are just three of the innovations that could result from a new way o...

Why water splashes: New theory reveals secrets

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

New research from the University of Warwick generates fresh insight into how a raindrop or spilt coffee splashes. Dr James Sprittles from the Mathematics Instit...

New electron source for materials analysis

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

How can solar cells be made more efficient? How can solar and wind energy be best stored for later use? Technologies for the transformation of the German energy...

The strangeness of slow dynamics

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

In a recent article published in Physical Review Letters (PRL 118, 117202 (2017)), researchers from the Nanomagnetism group at nanoGUNE reported so-far unknown ...

Next-gen steel under the microscope

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Next-generation steel and metal alloys are a step closer to reality, thanks to an international research project involving a University of Queensland scientist....

Airbus ships first high-power all-electric EUTELSAT 172B satellite to Kourou for Eutelsat

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

EUTELSAT 172B, the first high power all-electric telecommunications satellite, is now ready for shipment on 20 March from the Airbus satellite assembly facility...

Groundbreaking process for creating ultra-selective separation membranes

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of mater...

Aluminium giant Rusal doubles profits

Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)

Russian aluminium giant Rusal said Friday it had more than doubled net profit in 2016 after selling off one of its refineries. Shares in the Hong Kong-listed fi...

Using lasers to create ultra-short pulses

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. Their method coul...

Solid metal has 'structural memory' of its liquid state

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

New work from a team including Carnegie's Guoyin Shen and Yoshio Kono used high pressure and temperature to reveal a kind of "structural memory" in samples of t...