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Color-Changing Materials React to Force

Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 14:49:11 - Anuradha Menon

Parachute cords, climbing ropes, and smart coatings for bridges that change color when overstressed are several possible uses for force-sensitive...

Harnessing Light to Drive Nanomachines

Thursday, November 27th, 2008 - 14:39:15 - Anuradha Menon

Fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun’s light. But, the forces of sunlight are too weak to fill...

Fly to Mars With Spaceship Force Field

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - 12:54:29 - Anuradha Menon

According to the international space agencies, 'Space Weather' is the single greatest obstacle to deep space travel. Radiation from the sun and...

Physicists Tweak Quantum Force

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 - 12:40:25 - Ehud Rattner

Cymbals don’t clash of their own accord – in our world, anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed almost...

When Softness isn't a Virtue
Monday, January 14th, 2008 - Asaf Peer
A team of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has developed a method to distinguish between...