Contrary to expectations, structurally different molecules can display different solvent properties at an interface between air and water, researchers in Japan have discovered.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network (QCN) for Government Administration in Wuhu, China.
Oct 16th, 2009
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MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor industry and quantum computing.
Oct 16th, 2009
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UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of 'persistent current', a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.
Oct 16th, 2009
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A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously.
Oct 16th, 2009
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A group of scientists could show that the optical near-field can be used as actuator and sensitive probe for nanomechanical oscillators.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube.
Oct 15th, 2009
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Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today.
Oct 15th, 2009
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Auf der Messe Parts2Clean in Stuttgart zeigen Fraunhofer-Wissenschaftler vom 20. bis 22. Oktober 2009 (Halle 1/Stand F 610/G 709), wie mithilfe einer unsichtbaren Nanoschicht Fingerabdruecke auf Metall- oder Kunststoffoberflaechen unsichtbar werden.
Oct 15th, 2009
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Compared to the present standard, with the new system more than the half of the energy can be saved for the OLED-display-operation.
Oct 15th, 2009
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Veterinary scientists propose that by harnessing the system that reads the biological 'barcodes' of infectious microbes such as food poisoning bacteria, flu viruses and protozoa that cause malaria, one vaccine could be made to prevent a particular disease in all mammals.
Oct 15th, 2009
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A leading physicist from The University of Manchster has been awarded a Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professorship in celebration of the Society's 350th anniversary.
Oct 15th, 2009
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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has awarded a $1.1 million grant to researchers in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz to support their work on nanopore technology for analyzing DNA.
Oct 15th, 2009
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A team of four chemists at the University of Rochester have begun work on a new kind of system to derive usable hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight.
Oct 15th, 2009
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The new findings, previously considered possible by physicists but only now being seen in the laboratory, show that electrons in graphene can interact strongly with each other.
Oct 14th, 2009
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