Archive for November 2008
Oddest announcement of the last few weeks: Peeling tape can emit X-rays
Maybe a newly rediscovered property of Scotch tape is the reason the 3M company has been doing better in the…
Read MoreNanobamas – symbolic solutions to tough problems?
Perhaps we shouldn’t read too much into the microscopic faces of Barack Obama (shown above) that University of Michigan professor…
Read MoreKyocera scores with online ‘Fine Ceramics World’
“Fine ceramics” – a.k.a. advanced ceramics – gets a great boost from a new website launched by Kyocera. If…
Read MoreVideo of the week – Physics 101: What our next president needs to know
Credit: Berkeley Lab, YouTube Apropos of this week’s event in the U.S., this week’s video is based on what’s been…
Read MoreStudent contest winners explore ‘greenhouse world’
Two Dutch high school students have captured the top prize in an annual competition sponsored by PANalytical, a supplier of…
Read MoreGroup thinks its ‘black silicon’ boosts photoconductive gain
Why settle for one photon when you can get 200-300? That’s the idea behind a new material being developed by…
Read MoreThin film sandwich feeds hunger for superconductors
Researchers at DOE’s Brookhaven National Lab have developed a sandwich of thin films that, at the point where the films touch, offers a…
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