Updated: 2010-08-26 14:21:15
The metal tin lacks the value and prestige of gold, silver, and platinum - but to nuclear physicists, tin is magic. In the journal Nature, Rutgers physicists recently reported studies on tin that add knowledge to a concept known as magic numbers while perhaps helping researchers to explain how heavy elements are made in exploding stars........
Updated: 2010-08-26 14:21:15
Find dusting those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Dread washing the windows? Imagine keeping dust and grime off objects spread out over an area of 25 to 50 football fields. That's the problem facing companies that deploy large-scale solar power installations, and researchers today presented the development of one solution self-dusting solar panels and#8213; based on technology developed for space missions to Mars........
Updated: 2010-08-26 14:21:15
Because they are portable and easy to operate at ambient temperatures, cold atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) should find innovative applications in biomedicine, materials science and fabrication industries. Research published in the Journal of Applied Physics investigates an APPJ that extends from the ground electrode of a circuit........
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A collaborative team of applied researchers from Harvard University and the University of Leeds have demonstrated a new terahertz (THz) semiconductor laser that emits beams with a much smaller divergence than conventional THz laser sources. The advance, reported in the August 8th issue of Nature Materials, opens the door to a wide range of applications in terahertz science and technology. Harvard has filed a broad patent on the invention........
