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Landfill nation: What makes consumers less likely to recycle?

Aug 21, 2013 (SPX)

Consumers are more likely to toss a dented can or a chopped-up piece of paper into the trash than to recycle it, according to a new study in the Journal of Cons...

Sony says PlayStation 4 coming to U.S. Nov. 15

Aug 20, 2013 (UPI)

Sony has announced the release date for its PlayStation 4, saying the game console will launch in North America on Nov. 15 and Nov. 29 in Europe. At the Gamesca...

A new approach assembles big structures from small interlocking pieces

Aug 19, 2013 (SPX)

MIT researchers have developed a lightweight structure whose tiny blocks can be snapped together much like the bricks of a child's construction toy. The new mat...

Advancing resistive memory to improve portable electronics

Aug 19, 2013 (SPX)

A team at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a novel way to build what many see as the next generation memory s...

ORNL superconducting wire yields unprecedented performance

Aug 19, 2013 (SPX)

The ability to control nanoscale imperfections in superconducting wires results in materials with unparalleled and customized performance, according to a new st...

New insights into the polymer mystique for conducting charges

Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)

For most of us, a modern lifestyle without polymers is unthinkable...if only we knew what they were. The ordinary hardware-store terms we use for them include "...

Toxicologist says NAS panel 'misled the world' when adopting radiation exposure guidelines

Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)

In two recently published peer-reviewed articles, toxicologist Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts Amherst describes how regulators came to adop...

Bubbles are the new lenses for nanoscale light beams

Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)

Bending light beams to your whim sounds like a job for a wizard or an a complex array of bulky mirrors, lenses and prisms, but a few tiny liquid bubbles may be ...

Space station astronauts to be provided with 3-D printer to make parts

Aug 15, 2013 (UPI)

NASA says it will send a 3-D printer to the International Space Station to allow astronauts to print parts on demand, saving time and energy. "As you might imag...

Boeing Thin Disk Laser Exceeds Performance Requirements During Testing

Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)

A Thin Disk Laser system developed by Boeing integrates a series of high-power industrial lasers to generate one concentrated, high-energy beam. Testing has now...

Scientists create light/heat regulating window coating

Aug 14, 2013 (AFP)

Scientists said Wednesday they had created a window coating that can be switched electrically to regulate the amount of heat and light that enters a building. A...

New materials for bio-based hydrogen synthesis

Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have discovered an efficient process for hydrogen biocatalysis. They developed semi-synthetic hydrogenases, hyd...

Challenges and Practices for Space Mechanisms - Part 2

Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)

Release and Deployment Mechanism Challenges. Challenges associated with release and deployment systems often include the impracticality of complete and independ...

Investigation into the formation of defects during phase transitions in crystals of ions

Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)

Research groups at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Physical-Technical Federal Institute (PTB) in Braunschweig, working in collaboration with s...

Computer simulations reveal universal increase in electrical conductivity

Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)

Computer simulations have revealed how the electrical conductivity of many materials increases with a strong electrical field in a universal way. This developme...

3D IR Images Now in Full Color

Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)

An iconic moment in the history of Hollywood movie magic was born in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz when Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale stepped out of the black a...

13000 year old alien satellite orbiting Earth

Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)

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Seeing depth through a single lens

Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a way for photographers and microscopists to create a 3D image throu...

New Technique Allows Closer Study of How Radiation Damages Materials

Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)

A team of researchers led by North Carolina State University has developed a technique that provides real-time images of how magnesium changes at the atomic sca...

Altering organic molecules' interaction with light

Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)

Enhancing and manipulating the light emission of organic molecules is at heart of many important technological and scientific advances, including in the fields ...