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Scientific Glassblowers At Umass Combine High-Tech World With Ancient Art
March 10, 1998 — Larry Williams helps make modern, high-tech research possible at the University of Massachusetts by practicing a centuries-old craft: glassblowing. Williams is the University's master scientific ... > full story -
UB Engineer Discovers Carbon Composite Is A Semiconductor
March 6, 1998 — A University at Buffalo engineer has made the first observation of semiconducting behavior in a carbon composite material, a finding that could revolutionize the fields of "smart" structures ... > full story -
UB Physicist Provides Evidence Of Existence Of Anomalons
March 3, 1998 — A University of Buffalo researcher has provided the first indisputable evidence that anomalons -- which contradict conventional laws of physics -- do exist, but only for a billionth of a second under ... > full story -
Quantum Theory Demonstrated: Observation Affects Reality
February 27, 1998 — One of the most bizarre premises of quantum theory, which has long fascinated philosophers and physicists alike, states that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed ... > full story -
Chemist Turns To Self-Assembly To Create New Drugs
February 27, 1998 — Using metal atoms as molecular matchmakers, University of Rochester chemist Benjamin Miller has devised a new way of forming a nearly endless variety of potential drugs, then plucking out the most ... > full story -
Little Tin Worms On The March
February 27, 1998 — In high-end electronics, where success hinges on being lighter, faster, and smaller, size is the biggest barrier to progress. But when computer circuitry and other tiny devices get to be too small, ... > full story -
Engineers Build Window Onto Formation Of Atomic Layers; Device Could Improve Manufacturing Efficiency And Quality
February 26, 1998 — University of Michigan engineers have built a device that, for the first time, allows them to watch how ultra-thin layers of "sputter deposited" atoms form on surfaces during growth of ... > full story -
'Tunable Diode' A New Tool For Engineers
February 17, 1998 — Electrical engineers soon will have a new tool for use in designing electronic circuitry, including microelectronic devices such as computer chips, thanks to pioneering research by a University of ... > full story -
Sandia's Quantum Mechanical Transistor May Increase Computer Speed And Sensor Accuracy
February 17, 1998 — Improvements in the transistor of the future may not rely on decreasing its size but rather on a radical change in operation made possible by a quantum mechanical transistor created at Sandia ... > full story -
Wyoming Researchers Discover High-Performance Spider Silk Genes
February 10, 1998 — Two University of Wyoming scientists have discovered a gene that produces the most highly elastic fiber from a spider's silk. ... > full story -
Chemists Closing In On Commercial Potential Of Alkanes, Room Temperature Alkane Activation Reaction Measured
February 5, 1998 — The elusive goal of harnessing the vast potential of one of the earth's most plentiful materials is another step closer to realization. Using ultrafast spectroscopic techniques that provide ... > full story -
UNC-CH Scientists Observe For First Time How Bonds Behave At High Temperatures
January 28, 1998 — Using a sophisticated device known as a scanning tunneling microscope, chemists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the first time have observed directly how hydrogen atoms behave ... > full story
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