Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich
This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in […]
nanotechnology
Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.
Wired reveals the weird ways nanotechnologists are making sound behave like light… this time, by creating a Star Trek weapon in the lab: Because laser […]
We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.
The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens: An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, […]
Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.
Extreme Tech gets right to the point of a new technology – a mechanical pencil that can draw functional electronic circuits: With MIT’s carbon nanotube […]
Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.
Graphene, as we all now know, is the latest strange form of carbon to wow material scientists with its unusual properties. Well, New Scientist shows […]
So the anarchists are killing scientists now…
I’m getting this from Nature, although New Scientist has also been covering it. A group called “the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International […]
Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.
New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight: Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical University in […]
Cool nanotubes.
PhysOrg unveils the guts of the next supercomputer breakthrough – with carbon nanotubes that, curiously, make things nearby get hot while they stay cool: For […]
It’s really invisible.
None of this “invisible to X-rays” or “invisible in the infrared” business for the University of Texas. When they use carbon nanotubes to make something […]
Better solar.
Alternative energy got a big boost from TechEye.net, which reports that a new generation of solar panels could double in efficiency: A team made of […]
Gibraltar may crumble…
…but this new memory technology Neatorama’s talking about will be here to stay: Berkeley… researcher Alex Zettl and colleagues created a physical memory cell composed […]
Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs
The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008: There is still a lot we do not know […]
Levitate me.
Step back, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Telegraph reports on a new a levitation machine: Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of […]