A laser for your eyes
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 22, 2016 -
A team of the Lomonosov Moscow State University scientists and the Belarusian National Technical University has created a unique laser, which is a compact light source with wavelengths harmless to the human eye. The development can be used in medicine, communications systems and also in research.
'In collaboration with our colleagues of the Center for Optical Materials and Technologies, Be ...
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Nanoscrolls created from graphene's imperfect cousin
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 22, 2016 -
Water filters of the future may be made from billions of tiny, graphene-based nanoscrolls. Each scroll, made by rolling up a single, atom-thick layer of graphene, could be tailored to trap specific molecules and pollutants in its tightly wound folds. Billions of these scrolls, stacked layer by layer, may produce a lightweight, durable, and highly selective water purification membrane.
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Physicists build engine consisting of one atom
Mainz, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2016 -
An article in the latest edition of the journal Science describes an innovative form of heat engine that operates using only one single atom. The engine is the result of experiments undertaken by the QUANTUM work group at the Institute of Physics of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in collaboration with theoretical physicists of Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU). ...
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UA team revs up connected-vehicle technology
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2016 -
For all their anti-theft, fuel efficiency and satellite radio features, even the priciest new cars still travel on roads using decades-old traffic management technology. Their fate relies in large part on what drivers can see through windows or in rearview mirrors.
"Drivers communicate wirelessly on smartphones with people around the globe, but their cars can't communicate with cars around ...
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Princeton grad student writes program to help stabilize fusion plasma
Princeton NJ (SPX) Apr 22, 2016 -
Imene Goumiri, a Princeton University graduate student, has worked with physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to simulate a method for limiting instabilities that reduce the performance of fusion plasmas.
The more instabilities there are, the less efficiently doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamaks operate. The journal Nucl ...
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Tesla and other tech giants scramble for lithium as prices double
London, UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2016 -
Demand for lithium-the hottest commodity on the planet and the only commodity to show positive price movement in 2015-is poised to continue on its upward trajectory, becoming the world's new gasoline and earning the moniker of "White Petroleum". And the battle for market share in and around this commodity has everyone from major tech players to trend-setting investor gurus vying for a foothold. ...
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VW to offer buyback, payout to owners of polluting cars
San Francisco (AFP) April 21, 2016 -
Volkswagen reached an agreement Thursday with US regulators to offer US owners of some 480,000 illegally polluting diesel cars options of "substantial compensation" and to fix the cars, or to buy them back.
With the German automaker facing a court deadline for solutions to the emissions scandal, San Francisco district court judge Charles Breyer said the agreement in principle would give owne ...
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