Using fireballs to uncover the mysteries of ball lightning February 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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“People have been pondering ball lightning for a couple of centuries,” says James Brian Mitchell, a scientist the University of Rennes in France. Mitchell says that different theories of how it forms, and why it burns in ... | |
 Microscope Sees with Nanoscale Resolution January 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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Researchers have recently built an x-ray microscope that has a pixel resolution of just 15 nanometers, allowing scientists to study the properties of materials at the molecular scale and beyond. | |
Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires January 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ... | |
 Nanoparticles Generate Supersonic Shock Waves to Target Cancer January 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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By mixing nanomaterials that act as fuel and oxidizer, researchers have created a combustible nano explosive that can generate shock waves with Mach numbers up to 3. | |
Printable, Flexible Carbon-Nanotube Transistors January 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Brewer Science, Inc. have used carbon nanotubes as the basis for a high-speed thin-film transistors printed onto sheets of flexible plastic. Their method may allow ... | |
Plumbing Carbon Nanotubes January 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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Scientists have determined how to connect carbon nanotubes together like water pipes, a feat that may lead to a whole new group of bottom-up-engineered nanostructures and devices. | |
 Nanodisk Codes December 27, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Researchers at Northwestern University have devised a way to use billionth-of-a-meter-sized disks to create codes that could be used to encrypt information, serve as biological labels, and even tag and track ... | |
 'Nanocavity' Sensor Detects Virus-Sized Particles December 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Scientists have created a nanoscale device that is capable of detecting one quadrillionth of a gram of biological matter, or about the size of certain viruses. In the future, the sensor may be able to detect ... | |
 Virtual 3D nanorobots could lead to real cancer-fighting technology December 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 141 vote(s)
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From eliminating the side effects of chemotherapy to treating Alzheimer’s disease, the potential medical applications of nanorobots are vast and ambitious. In the past decade, researchers have made many improvements ... | |
 New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes November 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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The ability to create flexible, transparent electronics could lead to a host of novel applications, such as e-paper and electronic car windshields. Now, scientists have constructed a transistor made of a network ... | |
Nanodevices could use quantized current to operate future electronics November 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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For the past several decades, virtually all electronics devices have been based on the CMOS logic system, which uses semiconductors and transistors to form digital circuits. However, researchers today are investigating the ... | |
 First Direct Images of Carbon Nanotubes Entering Cells November 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 84 vote(s)
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For the first time, scientists have directly imaged carbon nanotubes entering and migrating within human cells, determining as a result that whether the nanotubes cause cell death depends on the dose and exposure ... | |
Discovering new properties in carbon nanotubes November 06, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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The trend in science is moving toward smaller devices. Indeed, single electron devices are considered one way for computing and other electronic applications to become ever smaller in size, while still providing large operating ... | |
New possibilities for boron nanotubes September 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Even though some scientists have managed to grow boron nanotubes, the nature of their structure is unknown. Different theories have been proposed regarding boron nanotube make-up, but they often result in structures that ... | |
Surface plasmons enhance nanostructure possibilities September 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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As technology becomes smaller and smaller, scientists work to find solutions to a variety of problems in many different fields. It is known that light could be used for studying molecules and atoms, as well as for solving ... | |
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