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Single metalens focuses all colors of the rainbow in one point

Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)

Now a team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the first single lens that can focus th...

Russian scientists suggested a new technology for creating magnet micro-structures

Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)

The team created films that are hundreds to dozens nanometers thick. The developed films are formed of iron silicides synthesized on a silicon substrate. Iron s...

Data scientists mine government data for evidence of historical events

Dec 29, 2017 (UPI)

For journalists and historians, sorting through government records is a tedious but important job. Though many government records aren't released until after a ...

Self-healing glass: a cracking discovery from Japan

Dec 28, 2017 (AFP)

The discovery opens the way for super-durable glass that could triple the lifespan of everyday products like car windows, construction materials, fish tanks and...

3-D nanoscale imaging made possible

Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)

However, imaging like this would be useful e.g. for investigating spongy electrodes, thus helping to increase capacity and charging speed of next generation bat...

A new theory to describe widely used material

Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)

One of the most commonly used materials in organic electronics is the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS, and tens of thousands of scientific articles have been publi...

A shoe-box-sized chemical detector

Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)

It could potentially be used to identify traces of drugs and explosives, as well as speeding the analysis of certain medical samples. A portable infrared chemic...

Hot vibrating gases under the electron spotlight

Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)

Gas molecules can be studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Unlike optical microscopy, TEM uses a beam of electrons instead of light, and has a m...

Water without windows: Capturing water vapor inside an electron microscope

Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)

By suspending organic samples in water vapor, OIST scientists were able to demonstrate another way to view them at high resolution. The researchers found they c...

Two holograms in one surface

Dec 26, 2017 (JPL)

The technology hinges on the ability of a carefully engineered surface to reflect light differently depending on the angle at which incoming light strikes that ...

Pentagon Challenged to Procure a New Satellite in Less Than 12 Years

Dec 22, 2017 (SPX)

It's no wonder that U.S. Air Force General John Hyten expressed his frustration over the Pentagon's broken procurement process at the recent Reagan National Def...

New synthethic protocol to form 3-D porous organic network

Dec 22, 2017 (SPX)

This breakthrough has been led by Professor Jong-Beom Baek in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST. The study demonstrates a synthetic protoco...

Experiments reveal evidence of exotic new matter state

Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)

When scientists confined ultracold atoms to a 2D medium, scientists witnessed a unique type of particle pairing. They described the unusual interactions between...

Russian scientist found out what happens with 'smart' magnetic gel in a magnetic field

Dec 22, 2017 (SPX)

However, the dependence of elastic characteristics of these materials on the external field remains a poorly studied issue. Recently, the physical nature of the...

Rainbow spider's iridescence could inspire color technology advances

Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)

The abdomens of male peacock spiders offer a shiny rainbow coloration. To attract the attention of potential mates, the males gyrate their colorful behinds. The...

Raytheon tapped to support Cobra Dane radar system

Dec 20, 2017 (UPI)

The deal, announced Tuesday by the Pentagon, taps Raytheon to support "in-scope requirements," which officials say are "required to ensure the Cobra Dane radar ...

Computer systems predict objects' responses to physical forces

Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)

Presenting their work at this year's Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Tenenbaum and one of his students, Jiajun Wu, are co-authors on four p...

3-D printed metals can be both strong and ductile

Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)

The findings, published in Materials Today, outline how a joint research team from the University of Birmingham, UK, Stockholm University, Sweden and Zhejiang U...

NASA laser communication payload undergoing integration and testing

Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)

"LCRD is a big step in the evolution of space communications," said Dave Israel, LCRD's principal investigator. "LCRD will demonstrate how laser communications ...

Software enables robots to be controlled in virtual reality

Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)

The software connects a robot's arms and grippers as well as its onboard cameras and sensors to off-the-shelf virtual reality hardware via the internet. Using h...