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Radio Waves Offers New Possibility into Smaller and Simpler Equipment

News - 20 Sep 2007

Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms--and more recently larger objects--by reducing the extent of their thermal motion. Now, applying a different form of...
Mirrors have Special Powers in the Hands of an Astronomer

News - 19 Sep 2007

Mirrors have special powers in the real world too, especially in the hands of an astronomer. In fact, modern astronomy depends on mirrors. Almost every telescope uses a mirror, sometimes several...
Ground-Breaking Technique in Breast Cancer Diagnostics - Photoacoustic Mammoscope

News - 19 Sep 2007

Photoacoustic techniques can supplement conventional imaging techniques in breast cancer diagnostics. From first tests on patients using the 'photoacoustic mammoscope' developed by the...
New Applications for Photonic Polymer Opals

News - 19 Sep 2007

A method for mass producing polymer opals that allow novel color-tuning characteristics has been developed by researchers in the UK and Germany. What's more, the researchers believe that they have...
Photonic Laser Thruster

News - 19 Sep 2007

Since Einstein, scientists have dreamed of Laser light powered rockets streaking through space at speeds approaching the speed of light. This vision came a step closer to reality on December 21, 2006,...
Political Backing to Phase Out Incandescent Light Bulbs

News - 19 Sep 2007

It's a bright idea: Get one of the Senate's biggest skeptics of the causes of global warming to co-sponsor legislation that encourages conservation. So when Democrats wanted to pass a bill...
Universe's Earliest Stars May Hold Clues to the Nature of Dark Matter

News - 19 Sep 2007

The universe's earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the universe's matter but doesn't interact with light, cosmologists...
Scientists Create Inexpensive Technique Which Forces Luminescent Polymers to Give Off Polarized Light

News - 18 Sep 2007

UCLA chemists working at the nanoscale have developed a new, inexpensive means of forcing luminescent polymers to give off polarized light and of confining that light to produce polymer-based lasers....
Submarine pump to make European Debut

News - 17 Sep 2007

Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that U.S. Patent No. 7,265,174 has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. With respect to...
Pioneer Carbon Nanotube-Based Transparent Electrodes

News - 17 Sep 2007

Unidym, Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that U.S. Patent No. 7,265,174 has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. With respect to...