Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tech: Extending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries — (Report)

Metal-air batteries are one of the lightest and most compact types of batteries available, but they can have a major limitation: When not...

Tech: Tiny structures' construction, drip by drip (Report)

Researchers explore methods of using carefully controlled droplets as a way to make soft, biomimetic structures. The trick comes in controlling the droplets,...

Tech: Intense tests reveal elusive, complex form of nitrogen — (Report)

An unusually complex form of one of the most abundant chemical elements on Earth has been revealed in the lab for the first...

Tech: Nano-scale process may speed arrival of cheaper hi-tech products — (Report)

An inexpensive way to make products incorporating nanoparticles -- such as high-performance energy devices or sophisticated diagnostic tests -- has been developed by...

Tech: Mapping nanoscale changes in memory material — (Report)

A team of scientists has created the world's most powerful electromagnetic pulses in the terahertz range to control in fine detail how a...

Tech: Academics transform photo of landmark Mars sunrise into a piece of music —...

Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create...

Tech: Innovative experimental scheme can create tailor-made mirror molecules — (Report)

Exploring the mystery of the molecular handedness in nature, scientists have proposed a new experimental scheme to create custom-made mirror molecules for analysis....

Tech: New silver films may boost the efficiency of solar cells and light-emitting diodes....

A new fabrication process for transparent ultra-thin silver films has been developed by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Wuppertal. The...

Tech: Same physics, different energy — (Report)

When physicists send neutrons shooting through a frustrated magnet, the particles spray out the other side in signature patterns. The designs appear because,...

Tech: Unlocking the secrets of metal-insulator transitions — (Report)

By using an x-ray technique available at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), scientists found that the metal-insulator transition in the correlated...

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