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Magic Carpet
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Perfectly timed for pantomime season, a team of scientists has come up with instructions for how to make a flying carpet. The magical device may owe more to Walt Disney than to The Arabian Nights , but it is not pure fantasy, according to Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University in Cambridge...
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D-meson mixing
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Whilst science fiction toys effortlessly with anti-matter, in reality it can be very hard to produce, so researchers around the world are celebrating a new break through in this area. For the first time, scientists using the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have o...
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Ion plume
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Something strange is happening in the atmosphere above Africa and researchers have converged on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the phenomenon. The Africa Space Weather Workshop kicked off Nov. 12th with nearly 100 scientists and students in attendance. The strange phenomenon that brings al...
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Radar absorbent materials
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Researchers from Ankaras Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) have used local resources in the development of new radar absorbent coverings to be used in technology geared toward radar invisibility. The new materials developed by ODTÜ researchers significantly reduce radar visibility fo...
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Plasma Antenna
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A new antenna made of plasma (a gas heated to the point that the electrons are ripped free of atoms and molecules) works just like conventional metal antennas, except that it vanishes when you turn it off. That's important on the battlefield and in other applications where antennas need to be kept out...
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Extreme pressures
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used a uniquely-constructed perforated diamond cell to investigate oxide glass structures at high pressures in unprecedented detail. Argonne physicist Chris Benmore and postdoctoral appointee Qiang Mei, alon...
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Friction
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Scientists may be one step closer to understanding the atomic forces that cause friction, thanks to a recently published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Houston and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The research, led by Rob...
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Elastic electronics
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An IMEC laboratory at the University of Ghent in Belgium has realized interconnections for elastic electronic wires that can be stretched to twice their original length while maintaining electrical conductivity. The technology could be significant in such applications as foldable displays,...
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Isotopes
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Researchers at Michigan State Universitys National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) have created three isotopes of magnesium and aluminium. The results not only stake out new territory on the nuclear landscape, but also suggest that variants of everyday elements might exist that...
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Coiling
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Unravelling the mysteries of coiling ropes. Experiment reveals complex behaviour. If you carefully lower a rope onto the floor it will probably form a neat coil. While most people wouldnt give it much though a group of scientist had a closer look. Their new insights into coiling could shed light o...
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Smallest radio
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The world's tiniest radio is a step closer to reality. US scientists have unveiled a detector thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can translate radio waves into sound. According to a University of California team, the study marks the first time that a nano-sized detecto...
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Colour changing material
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University of Southampton creates new colour changing material Scientists at the University of Southampton and the Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut (DKI) in Darmstadt, Germany have created a new type of plastic film that allows objects to change their colour. The researchers, led by the Univers...
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Carbon-doped magnetic semiconductor
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Title: Carbon-doped ZnO: A New Class of Room Temperature Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor Authors: Pan, H.; Yi, J. B.; Lin, J. Y.; Feng, Y. P.; Ding, J.; Van, L. H.; Yin, J. H. We report magnetism in carbon doped ZnO. Our first-principles calculations based on density functional theory predicted that...
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Stopping atoms
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With atoms and molecules in a gas moving at thousands of kilometres per hour, physicists have long sought a way to slow them down to a few kilometres per hour to trap them. A paper, published today in the Institute of Physics New Journal of Physics, demonstrates how a group of physicists from The Univer...
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X-ray antenna
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A new calculation shows that x rays, produced at machines planned or under construction, might be convertible into gamma rays or other particles using a process that is analogous to what happens when radio waves strike an antenna. In a conventional antenna, radio waves excite the motion of electro...
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