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Magic Ink Takes On Any Color
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Engineers have long experimented with replicating these so-called structural colors in synthetic materials, and now Sunghoon...

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Rutherford Cancer Deaths 'Coincidence'

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - 10:34:56 - Anuradha Menon

An independent investigation into the deaths of six workers at the former laboratory of the father of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford, has...

Atomic Agency Rescues 'Dirty Bomb' Material

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 - 18:55:27 - Anuradha Menon

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repatriated dozens of Russian-made, highly radioactive sources that had been languishing unused in...

Cement's Molecular Structure Finally Decoded

Thursday, September 10th, 2009 - 12:52:31 - Anuradha Menon

In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other...

Super-Strong Metallic Spider Silk

Friday, April 24th, 2009 - 16:42:46 - Anuradha Menon

In a number of cases, our finest manufacturing techniques haven't touched the materials that a few billion years of evolution have produced...

Energy Efficient Microwaveable Ceramics
Friday, October 31st, 2008 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania and at...

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Solving the Greatest Superconductor Puzzle

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 - 20:07:37 - Anuradha Menon

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo...

New Properties in Non-Magnetic Materials

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 - 16:32:55 - Ehud Rattner

A team of Penn State researchers has shown for the first time that the entire class of non-magnetic materials, such as those used in some computer...

Fibers Generate Energy from Movement

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 - 20:34:35 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Scientists in the US have developed novel brush-like fibers that generate electrical energy from movement. Weaving them into a material could allow...

Self-Cleaning Bathroom on the Way

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 - 16:43:06 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Scientists in Australia have developed an environmentally friendly coating containing special nanoparticles that could do the job of cleaning and...

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