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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 -
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
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