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 all kinds of unexpected ways. Formally, this stuff is is known… Read the rest “Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich”
Wired reveals the weird ways nanotechnologists are making sound behave like light… this time, by creating a Star Trek weapon in the lab:
… Read the rest “Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.”Because laser is an acronym for “light amplification
The Economist is gazing into the pretty colors…not of quantum computers, but quantum television screens:
… Read the rest “We’ll all be staring at quantum dots.”An LCD screen works with a backlight shining through red, blue or green
Extreme Tech gets right to the point of a new technology – a mechanical pencil that can draw functional electronic circuits:
… Read the rest “Draw your own circuits with nanotube pencils.”With MIT’s carbon nanotube pencil, the lead is formed
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 that graphene is even stranger than we… Read the rest “Weird carbon goes *plasmonic*.”
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 Revolutionary… Read the rest “So the anarchists are killing scientists now…”
New Scientist does its best to make nanomaterials sexy… like the new silicon stuff that’s stealing carbon’s limelight:
… Read the rest “Atom-thick silicon is the latest miracle STUFF.”Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical
PhysOrg unveils the guts of the next supercomputer breakthrough – with carbon nanotubes that, curiously, make things nearby get hot while they stay cool:
… Read the rest “Cool nanotubes.”For the UMD researchers,
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 invisible,… Read the rest “It’s really invisible.”
Alternative energy got a big boost from TechEye.net, which reports that a new generation of solar panels could double in efficiency:
… Read the rest “Better solar.”A team made of researchers from both UC Davis and UC Santa
…but this new memory technology Neatorama’s talking about will be here to stay:
… Read the rest “Gibraltar may crumble…”Berkeley… researcher Alex Zettl and colleagues created a physical memory cell composed
The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008:
… Read the rest “Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs”There is still a lot we do not know about the basics of energy systems dealing with photons,
Step back, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Telegraph reports on a new a levitation machine:
… Read the rest “Levitate me.”Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, have
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