A quantum lab for everyone
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 17, 2015 -
Topical research experiments are often too expensive or too complex to be rebuilt and incorporated in teaching. How can one, nevertheless, make modern science accessible to the public? This challenge was tackled in the research group Quantum Nanophysics led by Markus Arndt at the University of Vienna.
For the first time, two research laboratories were created as complete, photorealistic co ...
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SLAC's ultrafast 'electron camera' visualizes ripples in 2-D material
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2015 -
New research led by scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University shows how individual atoms move in trillionths of a second to form wrinkles on a three-atom-thick material. Revealed by a brand new "electron camera," one of the world's speediest, this unprecedented level of detail could guide researchers in the development of efficient so ...
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Tracking slow nanolight in natural hyperbolic metamaterial slabs
Basque Country, Spain (SPX) Sep 16, 2015 -
Researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (Basque Country) in collaboration with colleagues at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Catalunya) have imaged how light moves inside an exotic class of matter known as hyperbolic materials. They observed, for the first time, ultraslow pulse propagation and backward propagating waves in deep subwavelength-scale thick slabs of boron nitride - a natural hyperbol ...
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New tool for studying magnetic, self-propelled bacteria
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2015 -
In the Marvel Comics universe, Professor Xavier and the X-Men are only able to fend off their archrival Magneto, the magnetic mutant with the ability to control metals, once they truly understand the scope of the villain's powers. To better understand the behavior of the microbial world's Magnetos - the magnetically influenced water-dwellers known as magnetotactic bacteria - three researchers fr ...
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Platinum and iron oxide working together get the job done
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 17, 2015 -
Platinum is a great catalyst and can be used for many different applications. It's expensive stuff though, so tiny platinum nanoparticles sitting on cheap metal oxide materials are used to convert harmful carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide.
Using scanning tunnelling microscopes, scientists at TU Vienna have now been able to image the catalytic behaviour of platinum sitting on iron-oxide, ...
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Start-ups, IT giants explore auto world of tomorrow
Frankfurt (AFP) Sept 17, 2015 -
For a glimpse of the automobile of the future, take the escalator up to Hall 3.1 at the IAA motor show and step into the "New Mobility World".
This is the world of the new buzzwords - connected car and automated driving.
This year for the first time one of the vast exhibition halls of Frankfurt's sprawling trade fair grounds has been dedicated to small hi-tech start-ups, but also IBM an ...
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Goldman Sachs chief 'would not invest in China'
Beijing (AFP) Sept 17, 2015 -
The chairman of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has slammed China's handling of its economy, adding he would not currently invest in the country, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Lloyd Blankfein told the paper that China's broad stock market intervention, including state-funded share buying, as it seeks to shore up slumping prices, was "ham-handed" and "sloppy".
"They do ...
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