NIST Extends Response Period for Comments on Proposed New Advanced Manufacturing Program To accommodate additional interested parties, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a 30-day extension…
Read MoreWith the Nobel Prize announcements starting soon, it is all too easy to overlook the 2011 Ig Nobel laureates (awarded at Harvard U. last Thursday). The event honors (presumably) the…
Read MoreEnergy secretary, Steven Chu, and ARPA-E director, Arun Majumdar. Majumdar recently announced the next Energy Innovation Summit will be Feb. 27-29, 2012. Credit: ARPA-E The lead story in today’s ARPA-E…
Read MoreAt top, domains with opposite electrical polarization, averaging about 140 nanometers wide and separated by walls 2 nanometers thick, form a well-aligned array in a thin film of bismuth ferrite.…
Read MoreRice University researchers, Robert Vajtai, Enrique Barrera and Yao Zhao created a conductive cable from iodine-doped nanotubes capable of carrying household current. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Showing how something works…
Read MoreCustom-built oxide molecular beam epitaxy system at Yale. Credit: CRISP. The National Science Foundation has awarded a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center grant of $13 million to a Yale…
Read MoreOctoberfest in Germany. Credit: senator86; Wikepedia, Creative Commons license It’s September, which means Octoberfest season is almost here. Ever wonder what really makes those delicious brews? I just came across…
Read MoreThe Army Research Office’s Synthesis and Processing program is seeking white papers on the topic of the creation of superior structural materials through creative combinations of 1) microstructure engineering in extreme…
Read MoreI used to imagine a lot of the bio-inspired ideas, such as flying maple seed pods (above) and artificial jellyfish arose on Thursday or Friday afternoons around happy hour time…
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