Saving Bats From Wind Turbine Death – “Green-Green Dilemma”
German scientists survey stakeholders about their attitudes toward methods to mitigate bat fatalities from wind turbines used in generating renewable energy. Wind energy holds great…
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Spray Painting Fiber Bandages Onto Wounds With Biomedical Electrospinning Device
A new device can deposit drug-delivering fibers directly onto biological material. With newly developed technology, medical personnel can manufacture a bandage with drug-delivery capabilities directly…
Better-Tasting Desserts: Complex Fluid Dynamics Update Century-Old Food Testing Method
To make better-tasting desserts, this ultrasonic spinning rheometry method includes velocity profiling of complex liquids in food products in order to more accurately capture dynamics…
Faster, More Secure Communications Using Structured Light in Quantum Protocols
Quantum mechanics is embracing patterns of light to create an alphabet that can be leveraged to build a light-based quantum network. Structured light is a…
Galileo’s Jupiter Entry Probe Vaporized – New Gaps Revealed in Heat Shield Modeling
Data from the probe’s 1995 fireball has continued to confound those studying the mission. New simulations and faster computers point to bettering atmospheric entry vehicles….
New Designs for Optical Tools Inspired by Kaleidoscope Mirror Symmetry
Using multiple-axis symmetry inspired by kaleidoscopes, new polarization designs can control spin angular momentum and transverse energy flow for complex optical tools. Washington, D.C. —…
Bypassing Moore’s Law With High-Speed Photonic Computers
PAXEL, a new type of photonic integrated circuit device that uses a novel computing architecture, shows promise for high-speed, energy-efficient computing. A group of researchers…
Miniaturizing Medical Imaging, Sensing Technology Is a “Big Deal”
High quality medical images produced using a microchip proves researcher’s fabrication method can be used to miniaturize sensing, imaging and optical communication systems. Scientists in…
Physicists Use Lasers to Study Explosions
An explosion is a complex event involving quickly changing temperatures, pressures and chemical concentrations. In a paper in the Journal of Applied Physics, from AIP…
Defrosting Surfaces in Seconds at 100x Efficiency
A group of researchers has devised a method of sliding ice and frost off surfaces by melting the interfacial layer directly. In the future, a…
Researchers Develop New Technique to Forecast Geomagnetic Storms
The Earth’s magnetic field extends from pole to pole and is strongly affected by solar wind from the sun. This “wind” is a stream of…
Nanoscientists Develop Blueprint for Next-Generation Computing
Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types of 2-D materials. 2-D materials are single atom layers that…
Stardust and Radiation Could Lead to Complex Biomolecule Forms
New research offers evidence that humans — and the rest of life on Earth — may have been able to form with the right combination…
New Research Helps Explain Mercury’s Magnetic Tail
Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission. The origin…
Physicists Make First Ever Measurement of Antiproton Interactions
A team of scientists has announced the first ever measurement of antiproton interactions that make possible the existence of antimatter nuclei. The discovery gives physicists…
New Mathematical Relationship for Superconductors
Engineers from MIT have discovered a new mathematical relationship between material thickness, temperature, and electrical resistance that appears to hold in all superconductors. The result…
Certain Peptides Exposed to UV Radiation Transition to More Reactive Triplet Quantum States
New research shows that certain peptides degrade under UV light by first passing through a triplet quantum state, a reactive arrangement that can cause greater…
3D Model Provides New Insight into the Turbulent Death Throes of Supernovas
A new 3D model provides new insight into the turbulent death throes of supernovas, showing a turbulent interior that spits out star remnants prior to…
