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UT Dallas team's microscopic solution may save researchers big time![]() Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography. Details of the group's solution appeared in the January issue of the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, which is published by the American Institute of Physics. ... read more |
Researchers invent light-emitting nanoantennasSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 Nanoscale light sources and nanoantennas already found a wide range of applications in several areas, such as ultra compact pixels, optical detection or telecommunications. However, the fabrication ... more Onna, Japan (SPX) Feb 26, 2018 A small rectangle of pink glass, about the size of a postage stamp, sits on Professor Amy Shen's desk. Despite its outwardly modest appearance, this little glass slide has the potential to revolutio ... more
USTC realizes strong indirect coupling in distant nanomechanical resonatorsBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 New progress in graphene-based nanomechanical resonator systems has been achieved in Key Laboratory of Quantum Information and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics ... more
Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devicesNew Brunswick, NJ (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Engineers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Oregon State University are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper manufacturing of flexible thin ... more |
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Let the good tubes rollRichland WA (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Materials scientists, led by a team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, designed a tiny tube that rolls up and zips closed. These hollow nanotubes are thousand ... more
Touchy nanotubes work better when cleanHouston TX (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Carbon nanotubes bound for electronics need to be as clean as possible to maximize their utility in next-generation nanoscale devices, and scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have found a wa ... more
Piecework at the nano assembly lineMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a novel electric propulsion technology for nanorobots. It allows molecular machines to move a hundred thousand times faster than ... more
Optical nanoscope allows imaging of quantum dotsBasel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 03, 2018 Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a s ... more
Ultra-thin optical fibers offer new way to 3-D print microstructuresWashington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 For the first time, researchers have shown that an optical fiber as thin as a human hair can be used to create microscopic structures with laser-based 3D printing. The innovative approach might one ... more |
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Nanowrinkles could save billions in shipping and aquacultureSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 A team of chemistry researchers from the University of Sydney Nano Institute has developed nanostructured surface coatings that have anti-fouling properties without using any toxic components. ... more |
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Nanotube fibers in a jiffyHouston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 The terms "handmade" and "high tech" are not commonly found in the same sentence, but they both apply to a Rice University method to quickly produce fibers from carbon nanotubes. The method develope ... more
Silver nanoparticles take spectroscopy to new dimensionWashington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2018 As medicine and pharmacology investigate nanoscale processes, it has become increasingly important to identify and characterize different molecules. Raman spectroscopy, a technique that leverages th ... more
Researchers find simpler way to deposit magnetic iron oxide onto gold nanorodsRaleigh NC (SPX) Dec 27, 2017 Researchers from North Carolina State University and MIT have found a simpler way to deposit magnetic iron oxide (magnetite) nanoparticles onto silica-coated gold nanorods, creating multifunctional ... more
A 100-fold leap to GigaDalton DNA nanotechBoston MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2017 DNA, present in almost every cell, is increasingly being used as a building material to construct tiny, but sophisticated structures such as autonomous 'DNA walkers' that can move along a microparti ... more
Discovery sets new world standard in nano generatorsEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Dec 18, 2017 A team of University of Alberta engineers developed a new way to produce electrical power that can charge handheld devices or sensors that monitor anything from pipelines to medical implants. ... more |
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How does water change the moon's origin story? Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2018
It's amazing what a difference a little water can make. The Moon formed between about 4.4 and 4.5 billion years ago when an object collided with the still-forming proto-Earth. This impact created a hot and partially vaporized disk of material that rotated around the baby planet, eventually cooling and accreting into the Moon.
For years, scientists thought that in the aftermath of the colli ... more |
China plans rocket sea-launch Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2018
China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to an aerospace official.
Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said that 2018 would see five launches of Long March-11 rockets, with four missions for commercial payloads on land, and one at sea.
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Top US court grapples with email warrant reaching across borders Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2018
US Supreme Court justices grappled Tuesday with the implications of a criminal warrant case involving Microsoft emails in a test for whether American justice can reach across international borders for digital evidence.
Oral arguments were held at the top US court over a 2013 warrant ordering Microsoft to turn over the contents of an email account used by a suspected drug trafficker whose dat ... more |
How does water change the moon's origin story? Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2018
It's amazing what a difference a little water can make. The Moon formed between about 4.4 and 4.5 billion years ago when an object collided with the still-forming proto-Earth. This impact created a hot and partially vaporized disk of material that rotated around the baby planet, eventually cooling and accreting into the Moon.
For years, scientists thought that in the aftermath of the colli ... more |
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UT Dallas team's microscopic solution may save researchers big time Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.
Details of the group's solution appeared in the January is ... more |
US blasts off another satellite to boost weather forecasts Miami (AFP) March 1, 2018 A new US satellite that offers speedy, high-resolution images of storms and may save lives by making forecasts more accurate blasted off Thursday from a NASA launchpad.
"Three, two, one and liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the Atlas V rocket rumbled into the blue sky at 5:02 pm (2202 GMT) over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying the Geostationary Operational Environment ... more |
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UT Dallas team's microscopic solution may save researchers big time Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography.
Details of the group's solution appeared in the January is ... more |
Berkeley Lab 'minimalist machine learning' algorithms analyze images from very little data Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2018
Mathematicians at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new approach to machine learning aimed at experimental imaging data. Rather than relying on the tens or hundreds of thousands of images used by typical machine learning methods, this new approach "learns" much more quickly and requires far fewer images.
Daniel Pelt and James S ... more |
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Russian military developing long-range supersonic missile-lobbing drone Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018
Designed to infiltrate far into an enemy's territory, the new system will carry both guided and unguided munitions.
Russia is working on a long-range unmanned strike system, Zvezda, the official television channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, has learned.
Speaking to the television channel, Alexander Nemov, deputy chief of the research department at the 30th Central Scientific ... more |
Unconventional superconductor may be used to create quantum computers of the future Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
With their insensitivity to decoherence what are known as Majorana particles could become stable building blocks of a quantum computer. The problem is that they only occur under very special circumstances. Now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in manufacturing a component that is able to host the sought-after particles.
Researchers throughout the world are str ... more |
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Latest updates from NASA on IMAGE Recovery Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018
On Feb. 22, 2018, the signal from IMAGE began to break up and has been silent since Feb. 24. The team continues to assess what may be the issue, but it is known that this episode does not mimic the sudden silence that occurred in 2005 when contact was originally lost with the spacecraft. The team continues to make preparations to attempt to bring the attitude dete ... more |
China's 'super rich' legislators get richer Beijing (AFP) March 2, 2018
The Chinese Communist Party's annual legislative session will count more than 150 "super rich" members whose total net worth has soared to $650 billion, or double Ireland's annual GDP, a report showed Friday.
From internet tycoons to real estate barons and auto industry leaders, some of the wealthiest people in the world's second-largest economy will grace the corridors of the Great Hall of ... more |
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Quantum recurrence: Everything goes back to the way it was Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 27, 2018
It is one of the most astonishing results of physics: when a complex system is left alone, it will return to its initial state with almost perfect precision. Gas particles, for example, chaotically swirling around in a container, will return almost exactly to their starting positions after some time.
This "Poincare Recurrence Theorem" is the foundation of modern chaos theory. For decades, ... more |
New method enables high-resolution measurements of magnetism Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Feb 13, 2018
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Julich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure magnetism of individual atomic planes.
Magnetic nanostructures are used in a wide range of applications. Most notably, to store bits of data in hard drives. These structu ... more |
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World's first solar fuels reactor for night passes test Almeria, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2018
International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen and to run day or night - because it uses concentrated solar power (CSP) which can include thermal energy storage.
The promise of solar fuels is that we could have zero carbon fuels like hydrogen without the climate-damaging carbon em ... more |
Iridium Certus readies for takeoff with aviation service providers McLean VA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
Iridium Communications Inc. reports that Honeywell Aerospace, SKYTRAC, Avitek and Navicom Aviation are the first Iridium Certus service providers to be selected for the aviation industry.
As Iridium Certus service providers, each company will be able to offer the new, best-in-class broadband satellite connectivity to its customers. Ideal for commercial airliner flight deck communications, ... more |
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