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Drexel University to Open New State-of-the-Art Facility

At the nanometer scale, composition and characterization of materials leads to new discoveries for researchers around the world.

15 Jul 2007

Tiny Sea Creatures May Provide Foundation for Novel Electronic Devices

The three-dimensional shells of tiny ocean creatures could provide the foundation for novel electronic devices, including gas sensors able to detect pollution faster and more efficiently than conventional devices.

15 Jul 2007

The Art of Engineering

On a college campus, it would be difficult to find two subjects more different from each other than art and engineering.

15 Jul 2007

First Real-Time THz Imaging System

Terahertz (THz) radiation, or far-infrared light, is potentially very useful for security applications, as it can penetrate clothing and other materials to provide images of concealed weapons, drugs, or other objects.

15 Jul 2007

New Technology that Fine-Tunes Light Using Microscopic Artificial Muscles Could Bring New Generation of Color Displays

Scientists have unveiled a new technology that could lead to video displays that faithfully reproduce a fuller range of colors than current models, giving such a life-like viewing experience that it could be hard to go back to your old TV.

15 Jul 2007

South Pole Telescope at Jupiter Achieves First Light

Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations.

15 Jul 2007

Something New About Solitons

Scientists have discovered something new about exotic particles called solitons. Since the 1980s, scientists have known that solitons can carry an electrical charge when traveling through certain organic polymers. A n...

15 Jul 2007

Lasers for Deflecting Asteroids

A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are conducting research that could one day save humanity from asteroids threatening Earth.

15 Jul 2007

New Class of Ultra-Thin Polymer Films

They said it couldn't be done. And that's what really motivated UD polymer chemist Chris Snively and Jochen Lauterbach, professor of chemical engineering at UD. For years, polymer chemistry textbooks have ...

15 Jul 2007

Robin Santra Wins First-ever Young Scientist Prize for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Robin Santra has been selected as the winner of the first 2007 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Prize for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

15 Jul 2007