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Scientist Creates Tiny Fuel Cell For Portable Electronics
January 26, 1998 A new power source for cellular telephones and other portable electronics should provide power up to 50 times longer than conventional nickel-cadmium batteries. Crafted in his basement workshop by ... > full story -
Sandia National Labs Developing Means To Sniff Out Land Mines Chemically and Electronically
January 20, 1998 Sandia National Laboratories has joined the effort to rid the planet of what some people have called its worst form of pollution -- land mines. ... > full story -
Weizmann Institute Astrophysicist Hot On The Tracks Of A New 'Strange' Star
January 17, 1998 A new "strange" star is suspected to be lurking in our galaxy -- and a Weizmann Institute astrophysicist is hot on its tracks. ... > full story -
Cellular Engineers Design Custom Cell Surfaces Able To Adhere To Synthetic Materials
January 6, 1998 Carolyn Bertozzi and her colleagues at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to use natural biological processes to plant artificial markers on the surfaces of ... > full story -
Purdue Researchers Make Light 'Stand Still' To Measure Motion
January 2, 1998 Purdue University researchers have demonstrated a new method for using lasers and semiconductors to more accurately measure the velocity of a moving ... > full story -
Researchers Search For Basic Building Blocks Of Matter
December 31, 1997 The world's most advanced search for the basic building blocks of matter -- a quest begun in ancient Greece -- will be conducted with the help of physicists from the University of Iowa and Iowa ... > full story -
Testing Shows Titanic Steel Was Brittle
December 27, 1997 Recent tests of steel from the Titanic reveal that the metal was much more brittle than modern steel but the best available at the time, a metallurgical engineering professor at the University of ... > full story -
Los Alamos Metallurgists Find Niche In Art World
December 26, 1997 Metallurgists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory who honed their craft in the nuclear weapons arena are now sharing their expertise with a Santa Fe sculptor and others ... > full story -
Scientists Confirm Existence Of Atom-Sized Electronic Devices Within Carbon Nanotubes
December 16, 1997 Berkeley Lab scientists have confirmed the existence of atom- sized electronic devices on nanotubes, hollow cylinders of pure carbon about 50,000 times more narrow than a human hair in diameter. ... > full story -
Austrian Scientists Experimentally Demonstrate "Quantum Teleportation"
December 15, 1997 Researchers at the University of Innsbruck have experimentally demonstrated quantum teleportation – a phenomenon that allows physicists to take a photon (or any other quantum-scale particle, ... > full story -
Glass Containers May Be The Answer For Nuclear Waste Disposal, Researcher Says
December 10, 1997 Glass may be the answer to safely dispose of nuclear waste, says a University of Missouri-Rolla scientist who recently received a patent for his research efforts to encapsulate plutonium in a special ... > full story -
Shape Changes In Ceramic Particles: A Paradox Explained
December 8, 1997 A long-standing paradox in the theory of sintering ceramics has been resolved by Alan W. Searcy of the Materials Sciences Division at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ... > full story
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