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Transparent electrode innovation could bring flexible solar cells, transistors, displays

Source: PhysOrg.com

These electron microscope images show a new material for transparent electrodes that might find uses in solar cells, flexible displays for computers and consumer electronics, and future "optoelectronic" circuits for sensors and information processing. T ...
Full article at: PhysOrg.com  More like this  11 hours ago, 2:32pm CDT

These Self-Assembling Nanoflowers Are As Beautiful As They Are Tiny

Source: Popular Science

Harvard researchers grew these lovely microscopic gardens using delicate chemical reactions. A nanorose may not smell as sweet as an organic one, but the red petals on this micron-scale flower are unquestionably just as beautiful. At Harvard Uni ...
Full article at: Popular Science  More like this  11 hours ago, 2:32pm CDT

How Long Did Neandertals Breastfeed?

Source: Science

Most child health experts agree that a minimum of 6 months of breastfeeding is essential for the welfare of growing babies, although how well such recommendations are carried out widely varies across the globe. Less is known about the ...
Full article at: Science  More like this  11 hours ago, 1:44pm CDT

More than 91,000 litres of oil spilled from derailed Saskatchewan train

Source: Regina Leader-Post

A freight train jumped the tracks in southeastern Saskatchewan Tuesday and spilled more than 91,000 litres of oil. The accident happened as the Canadian Pacific Rail eastbound train was rolling through an ar ...
Full article at: Regina Leader-Post  More like this  15 hours ago, 10:32am CDT

The IRS: Too eager to please?

Source: The Hill

Of course, it all started with the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. As everyone knows by now, in that case the court allowed corporations — for profit and not for profit — to make political expenditures, but not contr ...
Full article at: The Hill  More like this  15 hours ago, 10:19am CDT

What's Individuality, and Where Does It Come From?

Source: Scientific American

“Let’s say you have an axe. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot,” opens the horror-comedy novel John Dies at the End. “On one bitter winter day, you use said axe to behead a man.” This blow splinters the axe’s handle – so the story goes – so you get the h ...
Full article at: Scientific American  More like this  15 hours ago, 9:51am CDT

Advancing the IRS story

Source: Power Line

The IRS story is huge. It is far greater than Tea Party activists, and embraces many, many religious groups and who knows who else. The attempt to muffle the sound of a crash is under Liebau’s microscope as she traces who kn ...
Full article at: Power Line  More like this  16 hours ago, 9:31am CDT

What Stresses Gorilla Glass Makes It Stronger

Source: Physics Central

Alterations to the usual glass production process, such as putting the material under stress, can introduce effects that linger even after the material hardens. While manufacturers have long exploited this phenomenon to stre ...
Full article at: Physics Central  More like this  16 hours ago, 9:20am CDT

Gandhi was declared terrorist and declaration sold cheaply

Source: OneIndia

New Delhi, May 22: Has it got to do with too much of terror around the world? But it could have made an interesting connection with the man of non-violence. Mahatma Gandhi was once declared a terrorist. And a ...
Full article at: OneIndia  More like this  16 hours ago, 9:15am CDT

Heinrich Rohrer, co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope, has died

Source: Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight

(Nanowerk News) The co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope, Dr. Heinrich Rohrer, passed away on the evening of May 16, 2013. He was 79. Heinrich Rohrer, IBM Fellow and Nobel Laureate, joined the IBM Research Laborato ...
Full article at: Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight  More like this  17 hours ago, 8:25am CDT


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