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Materials processing tricks enable engineers to create new laser material

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

To achieve this advance, engineers devised new materials processing strategies to dissolve high concentrations of neodymium ions into alumina crystals. The resu...

Metal too 'gummy' to cut? Draw on it with a Sharpie or glue stick, science says

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

What makes inks and adhesives effective isn't their chemical content, but their stickiness to the surface of any gummy metal such as nickel, aluminum, stainless...

A high-yield perovskite catalyst for the oxidation of sulfides

Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)

The oxidation of sulfides is a commercially important process with broad applications ranging from chemicals production to environmental management. A research ...

Chinese scientists achieve success in nitrogen metallization

Jul 17, 2018 (SPX)

The team, working at the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (CASHIPS), developed its own pulsed-laser heating system a...

Paper-cut provides model for 3D intelligent nanofabrication

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

Recently, the techniques of this ancient art have been used in various scientific and technological fields, including designs for solar arrays, biomedical devic...

Photonic capsules for injectable laser resonators

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

The research group headed by Professor Shin-Hyun Kim in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering applied an interesting optical property from nat...

Giant Satellite Fuel Tank Sets New Record for 3-D Printed Space Parts

Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)

The titanium tank consists of three parts welded together: two 3-D printed domes that serve as caps, plus a variable-length, traditionally-manufactured titanium...

Dutch city to unveil world's first 3D-printed housing complex

Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)

Printed in concrete by a robotic arm, the project backed by the city council, Eindhoven Technical University and several construction companies aims to see its ...

Astronomer Reveals When Soviet-Era Interplanetary Station Will Crash to Earth

Jul 09, 2018 (Sputnik)

The Kosmos 482 interplanetary station, which was unsuccessfully sent towards Venus in 1972 by the USSR, may crash land on Earth between 2023 and 2025, astronome...

Plastic is light, versatile and here to stay -- for now

Jul 08, 2018 (AFP)

But the resilient, supple, light and malleable materials play a key role in our lives and, according to experts, will remain crucial for a long time to come. He...

Scientists calculate impact of China's ban on plastic waste imports

Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)

But in 2017, China passed the "National Sword" policy, which permanently bans the import of non-industrial plastic waste as of January 2018. Now, scientists fro...

Spectral cloaking could make objects invisible under realistic conditions

Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)

The approach could be applicable to securing data transmitted over fiber optic lines and also help improve technologies for sensing, telecommunications and info...

Sandia light mixer generates 11 colors simultaneously

Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)

A flashy laser pointer may be fun to envision, but changing the color of a laser has many other uses from discovering hidden archeology sites in dense forests a...

Hope for new catalysts with high activity

Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)

Osaka University scientists elucidated the activation mechanism of NPG catalysts that made poisonous CO gas harmless. Their research results were published in N...

New insights bolster Einstein's idea about how heat moves through solids

Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)

The transfer of heat is fundamental to all materials. This new research, published in the journal Science, explored thermal insulators, which are materials that...

Probing nobelium with laser light

Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)

Nuclei of heavy elements can be produced at minute quantities of a few atoms per second in fusion reactions using powerful particle accelerators. The obtained r...

Smarter, faster algorithm cuts number of steps to solve problems

Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)

Computer scientists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a completely new kind of algorithm, one that...

New, safer waterproof coating invented by MIT scientists

Jun 29, 2018 (UPI)

As a result, material scientists are looking for a safer way to waterproof materials. Researchers at MIT have developed a new type of coating. Not only is the n...

Scientists use a photonic quantum simulator to make virtual movies of molecules vibrating

Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)

An optical chip uses light to process information, instead of electricity, and can operate as a quantum computing circuit when using single particles of light, ...

Experiments of the Russian scientists in space lead to a new way of 3D-bioprinting

Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)

There are many methods of 3D-bioprinting. Most of them use a certain layer-by-layer framework of the biological tissues. The resulting bulk material is then sen...