News articles tagged with 'crystal'
Berkeley researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics
— 15 Nov 2009 14:21 | TechnologyThere is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free... — full story
Drinking green tea helps prevent kidney stones
— 13 Nov 2009 13:17 | HealthDrinking green tea can help prevent the formation of large kidney stones, report Chinese scientists in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal CrystEngComm... — full story
Right first time: Pioneering new methods of drug manufacture
— 12 Nov 2009 08:47 | HealthEngineers at the University of Leeds have developed a simple technology which can be used in existing chemical reactors to ensure 'right first time' drug crystal formation... — full story
Materials scientists find better model for glass creation
— 5 Nov 2009 12:11 | TechnologyHarvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass... — full story
Caltech scientists first to trap light and sound vibrations together in nanocrystal
— 27 Oct 2009 17:43 | TechnologyResearchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations... — full story
Team led by Scripps Research and UC San Diego scientists reveals secrets of drought resistance
— 23 Oct 2009 12:54 | EnvironmentA team of biologists in California led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California (UC), San Diego has solved the structure of a critical molecule... — full story
Scientists visualise assembly line gears in ribosomes, cell's protein factory
— 16 Oct 2009 10:40 | HealthEven as research on the ribosome, one of the cell's most basic machines, is recognised with a Nobel Prize, scientists continue to achieve new insights on the way ribosomes work... — full story
Quantum computer chips now 1 step closer to reality
— 16 Oct 2009 09:10 | TechnologyIn the quest for smaller, faster computer chips, researchers are increasingly turning to quantum mechanics - the exotic physics of the small... — full story
Large-scale cousin of elusive 'magnetic monopoles' found at NIST
— 7 Oct 2009 13:56 | PhysicsAny child can tell you that a magnet has a 'north' and a 'south' pole, and that if you break it into two pieces, you invariably get two smaller magnets with two poles of their own.... — full story
Physicists observe magnetism in gas for the first time
— 3 Oct 2009 09:46 | PhysicsAn international team of physicists has for the first time observed magnetic behaviour in an atomic gas, addressing a decades-old debate as to whether it is possible for a gas or liquid... — full story