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Border Patrol Goes High Tech
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 24, 2009 – The Department of Homeland Security has accelerated plans to build a "virtual fence" on the US-Mexico border that will incorporate steel towers equipped with infrared sensors, remotely operated cameras, communications devices and radar. The system is designed to aid border patrol agents in identifying and intercepting 70 to 85 percent of all illegal passages into the US.
Flexible Uses for Micro-LEDs
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Aug. 21, 2009 – By printing large arrays of ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic LEDs and interconnecting them using thin-film processing, materials scientists at the University of Illinois combined the advantages of both inorganic and organic LEDs for use in lighting...
Imaging Reveals Hidden Art
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2009 – The use of a new x-ray imaging technique to reveal, for the first time in a century, unprecedented details of a painting hidden beneath another painting by famed American illustrator N.C. Wyeth was reported to the American Chemical Society.
Light Controls Cell Movement
CHAPEL HILL, NC, Aug., 19, 2009 – A new technique developed by Dr. Klaus Hahn and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill uses light to manipulate the activity of a protein at precise times and places within a living cell, providing a new tool for scientists...
Broadband Exterior Cloaking
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 18, 2009 – A new active cloaking method might someday shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, building from earthquakes and coastal structures from tsunamis, said a group of mathematicians at the University of Utah.
'Spaser' Nanolaser Realized
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 17, 2009 – By harnessing clouds of electrons called surface plasmons instead of photons, engineers at Purdue University overcame a barrier preventing lasers from being integrated into electronic circuits. Their nanolaser, the "spaser," is the first of its kind...
Camera Flash Forms Conductor
EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 13, 2009 – The new process invented at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science replaces high-temperature heating or chemical reduction by using a camera flash to instantly convert the low-cost insulator graphite oxide into...
Capping Two-faced Particles
DURHAM, NC, Aug. 13, 2009 – In Roman mythology Janus, known as the god of gates, doorways, and beginnings and endings, was typically depicted as having two faces looking opposite directions. Scientists at Duke University borrowed the Roman god’s name for a unique class of...
Light Controls Living Cells
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 12, 2009 – Light energy can gently guide and change the orientation of living cells within lab cultures, researchers at the University of Central Florida have demonstrated. The ability to optically steer cells could be a major step in harnessing the healing...
Yb Tops Cesium in Superclock
GAITHERSBERG, Md., Aug. 12, 2009 – An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, the nation's civilian time standard. Scientists at...
A cheaper path to nanodiamonds
EVRY, France – They don’t photobleach, they don’t blink, and they are very bright and biologically inert. So why are fluorescent nanodiamonds still not widely used in research? Because they are exceptionally difficult and expensive to produce, making them...
Biting the hand that feeds you
Aug 1, 2009 — When 300 highly esteemed members of the science community write to protest Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed cuts to the University of California budget, their distress resounds throughout all research and technology sectors in the US, including...
De-twinkle, de-twinkle little star
MARSEILLE, France, and GARCHING, Germany – Thanks to what is being billed as the world’s fastest and most sensitive astronomical camera, the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s Very Large Telescope might be able to spot planets orbiting another star within a few years. Nonastronomical...
Letters to the Editor
Aug 1, 2009 — Solar coffee shop? I was intrigued by your articles on solar power in the May issue and have a question I hope you can help me with. I am a member of a Hewlett-Packard survey group that discusses topics such as various aspects of technology. One...
Radios broadcast into the ultraviolet
ADELPHI, Md. – Ultraviolet communications has been on the US military’s agenda since the 1960s, but only recently has the Army been able to perform small-scale, short-range, nonline-of-sight UV radio experiments that could lead to a novel communications...
Scientists are creating unusual type of laser from a strange material
NICE, France – Just what the heck is a random laser? Because lasers are supposed to produce coherent, linear beams of light, the notion of randomness in a laser beam seems at first to be an oxymoron. As in an ordinary laser, light in a random laser is amplified...
Solution to a hairy problem
TEDDINGTON, UK – A single strand of hair can reveal much about a person, especially if you know how to look. Proper investigation can determine diet as well as any drugs or poisons the person may have been exposed to, and the hair’s growth keeps this information in...
State Department addresses delays in obtaining visas
WASHINGTON – In the past year, researchers and students hoping to enter or re-enter the US have faced sometimes months-long delays in obtaining visas. Now, however, after a chorus of complaints from university groups and scientific organizations, the US...
Diffract-and-Destroy Imaging
BERKELEY, Calif., July 30, 2009 – A particle gun that fires liquid droplets less than a millionth of a meter in diameter, faster than hundreds of thousands of times a second, is poised to revolutionize biological imaging. Tested at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and soon to be...
Viable Organic PV Realized
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 30, 2009 – A new class of economically viable solar power cells – cheap, flexible and easy to make – has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where scientists have deepened their...
Eye-Catching Vision Discovery
BALTIMORE, Md., July 28, 2009 – Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discovered in fish yet another type of cell that can sense light and contribute to vision.
Nanolaser Size Limit Broken
TEMPE, Ariz., July 28, 2009 -- An international research collaboration is reporting advances in breaking previous limitations on how small lasers can be made. The work opens up possibilities for using nanoscale lasers to significantly improve optical communications, single...
Beetle Bares Photonic Secrets
ATLANTA, July 24, 2009 – In discovering how the jeweled beetle, Chrysina gloriosa, creates its striking colors using a unique helical structure that reflects the light of two specific colors but of only one polarization, researchers may have unlocked photonic secrets with...
Cell Interactions Revealed
EUGENE, Ore., July 23, 2009 -- New findings that suggest putting lipids and other cell membrane components on manufactured surfaces to control like-charge attraction could lead to new classes of self-assembling materials for use in precision optics, nanotechnology, electronics...
Nanoscale Mass Spectrometer
PASADENA, Calif., July 23, 2009 – Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule in real time.

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