An old friend of mine, who has visited Japan often over many years, says attitudes of Japanese people towards clothing have changed significantly, as many…
More recently, however, he’s noticed that the mention of LEDs – light-emitting diodes – no longer prompts puzzled looks. He rarely has to delve into the…
The bulk of the funding – $3.45 million, or $1.15 million per year – allows PNNL to lead a project that will examine the environmental impacts of marine and…
In an effort to cope with the challenges of an aging population, a new robot making use of the latest in sensor, control, information processing, mechanical…
The technique can measure the spectrum of the specific wavelengths of near infrared light used widely in telecommunications as well as the very weak infrared…
Recent tests by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will provide much needed, independent data on how electromagnetic…
The research team, which includes collaborators from the University of Maryland, has found a simple method of sandwiching organic molecules between silicon and…
The team has probed the atomic-level workings of a metal-organic framework (MOF), a lattice-like structure made of copper oxide and benzene, that soaks up…
According to the Department of Energy, the annual cost of power outages is approximately $80 billion. Now add to conventional challenges those risks posed by…
Brian Korgel, a University of Texas at Austin chemical engineer, is hoping to cut costs to one-tenth of their current price by replacing the standard…
Although plants have efficiently captured energy from sunlight for millions of years, producing light-harvesting and energy storage devices based on…
Dr. Jay A. Switzer and his colleagues at Missouri S&T report in the journal Chemistry of Materials that their simple, inexpensive process could also lead to…
The novel NIST device is being developed as the foundation for miniature yet highly accurate gas sensors that can detect chemical and biological agents,…
Based on applications and communications received by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), more than 30 new nuclear power reactors are expected to be under…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have devised a versatile hybrid platform that uses lipid-coated nanowires to build prototype…
Because the devices, called resonators, vibrate in specific patterns, they are able to cancel out signals having certain frequencies and allow others to pass. The result is a new type of “band-pass” filter, a component commonly used in electronics to permit some signals to pass through a cell phone's circuitry while blocking others, said Jeffrey Rhoads, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University….
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