IBM partnered with National Geographic Kids magazine to 'chisel' the world's smallest magazine cover ever. The recently certified GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS cover is 11 � 14 micrometers - at this size 2,000 could fit on a grain of salt.
Apr 25th, 2014
Read moreAfter using it to develop a computer chip, flash memory device and photographic sensor, scientists have once again tapped into the electronic potential of molybdenite by creating diodes that can emit light or absorb it to produce electricity.
Apr 25th, 2014
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A high-performance 'photonic transistor' that switches light signals instead of electronic signals could revolutionize optical signal processing.
Apr 25th, 2014
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Skylar Tibbits launches the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where researchers are building materials that can coalesce on their own to form structures.
Apr 25th, 2014
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Evanescent electromagnetic waves are found to have very different fundamental dynamical properties to those of normal light.
Apr 25th, 2014
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Researchers have developed a new and unconventional battery chemistry aimed at producing batteries that last longer than previously thought possible.
Apr 24th, 2014
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Just a few grams of the new substance are enough to tag the entire olive oil production of Italy. If counterfeiting were suspected, the nanoparticles added at the place of origin could be extracted from the oil and analysed, enabling a definitive identification of the producer.
Apr 24th, 2014
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Scientists have proven that the stability of nanobubbles is so high they remain stable even at the boiling point of water, triggering microdroplet nucleation.
Apr 24th, 2014
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Metal organic framework captures troubling polysulfides that usually cause battery failure.
Apr 24th, 2014
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School children learn the difference between liquids and gases, but centuries of scholarship have failed to produce consensus about how to categorize glass. Now, combining theory and numerical simulations, researchers have resolved an enduring question in the theory of glasses, showing that their energy landscapes are far rougher than previously believed. The new model shows that molecules in glassy materials settle into a fractal hierarchy of states.
Apr 24th, 2014
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A new AIP report, titled Physics Entrepreneurship and Innovation, is based on extensive interviews with 140 PhD physicists and other professionals who co-founded and work at some 91 startup companies in 14 states that were established in the last few decades. These companies are engaged in making medical devices, manufacturing tools, nanotechnology, lasers and optical devices, renewable energy technologies and other products.
Apr 24th, 2014
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Fundamental research in phonon scattering helps researchers design graphene materials for applications.
Apr 24th, 2014
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By looking at a piece of material in cross section, researchersdiscovered how copper sprouts grass-like nanowires that could one day be made into solar cells.
Apr 23rd, 2014
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A fully functional quantum computer is one of the holy grails of physics. A group of physicists has moved one step closer to making a quantum computer a reality.
Apr 23rd, 2014
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Treating cadmium-telluride solar cell materials with cadmium-chloride improves their efficiency, but researchers have not fully understood why. Now, an atomic-scale examination of the thin-film solar cells has answered this decades-long debate about the materials' photovoltaic efficiency increase after treatment.
Apr 23rd, 2014
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Scientists have developed a very simple method for the modification of membranes through the inclusion of microgels.They report hollow-fiber membranes that demonstrate temperature-dependent flow and retention, thanks to thermoresponsive microgels.
Apr 23rd, 2014
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