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New kind of high-temperature photonic crystal could someday power everything from smartphones to spacecraft
A team of MIT researchers has developed a way of making a high-temperature version of a kind of materials called photonic crystals, using metals such as tungsten or tantalum. The new materials ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures
Using computer simulations, a Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million ...
Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Optics get magnetic powers
For decades, scientists have studied a class of materials called ‘multiferroics’ in which static electric and magnetic structures are coupled to each other. This allows capabilities ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Scientists rediscover self-healing silicone mechanism from the 1950s
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research in self-healing organic polymers has grown recently, but one simple self-healing mechanism from more than 60 years ago has been nearly forgotten until now. Using this ...
Sat 28 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Disappearing gold a boon for nanolattices
(PhysOrg.com) -- When gold vanishes from a very important location, it usually means trouble. At the nanoscale, however, it could provide more knowledge about certain types of materials. A recent ...
Mon 30 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Lab team develops capability for atomistic simulations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional scientific wisdom says that the interatomic forces between ions that control high-temperature processes such as melting are insensitive to the heating of the electron ...
Fri 27 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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New magnetic soap could be used to clean up oil spills
When oil gets spilled in a waterway, clean-up crews will often introduce a solution known as a surfactant. This is a detergent that lessens the surface tension between the water and the overlaying ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from Gizmag
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Ultrafast magnetic processes observed 'live' using X-ray laser
In first-of-their-kind experiments performed at the American X-ray laser LCLS, a collaboration led by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute has been able to precisely follow how the magnetic ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Part of Earth's mantle shown to be conductive under high pressure and temperatures
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying the rotation of the Earth have long known that our planet doesn't have a perfect spin. Most believe this is due to the different types of materials that ...
Fri 20 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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NCBI ROFL: And the And the January "no sh*t, Sherlock" award goes to...
Wed 18 Jan 12 from Discover Magazine
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