Applied Physics

New Biofuel From Trees Developed

A team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a new biofuel derived from wood chips. Unlike previous fuels derived from wood, the new and still unnamed fuel can be blended with biodiesel and petroleum diesel to power conventional engines. &quo ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2007 - 11:14am

ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor- Back And Badder Than Ever

The research reactor at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is back in action and better than ever. After $70 million in renovations and more than a year of meticulous system checks, ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor was restarted this ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2007 - 8:35pm

Who Assassinated JFK? Modern Forensics Takes A Shot At The Answer

Combining statistics and chemistry, researchers are challenging the evidence for the lone-gunman theory in the 1963 assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. Texas A&M University professor of statistics Cliff Spiegelman recently teamed ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2007 - 9:34pm

UD Researchers Advance New Age Of Electronics

Electrical engineers from the University of Delaware and Cambridge NanoTech have demonstrated for the first time how the spin properties of electrons in silicon--the world's most dominant semiconductor, used in electronics ranging from computers to ce ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2007 - 1:35am

Inverse Woodpile Photonic Structure Has Huge Photonic Band Gap

As many homeowners know, when stacking firewood, pieces should be placed close enough to permit passage of a mouse, but not of a cat chasing the mouse. Now, imagine a woodpile where all those mouse passageways are packed with ice, the wood carefully remove ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2007 - 10:54am

Multiple Recent Developments Offer New Sources For Stem Cell Treatments

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine offer future patients greater options for treatment and cure of a wide array of urologic conditions, and controversies surrounding the sources of stem cells as well as their use have fueled increased research. H ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2007 - 11:39am

Next: Carbon Free Cars Powered By Hydrogen

A new breakthrough in hydrogen storage technology could remove a key barrier to widespread uptake of non-polluting cars that produce no carbon dioxide emissions. PN 35-07 atoms. CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE. Credit: EPSRC ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2007 - 4:31pm

Sugar To Hydrogen Technology Promises Transporation Fuel Independence

The hydrogen economy is not a futuristic concept. The U.S. Department of Energy's 2006 Advance Energy Initiative calls for competitive ethanol from plant sources by 2012 and a good selection of hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles by 2020. Researchers ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2007 - 9:50pm

Follow The 'green' Brick Road?

Researchers have found that bricks made from fly ash--fine ash particles captured as waste by coal-fired power plants--may be even safer than predicted. Instead of leaching minute amounts of mercury as some researchers had predicted, the bricks apparently ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2007 - 3:03pm

Clothes That Monitor Your Health

Integrating bio-chemical sensors into textiles for continuous monitoring of a person's health is the goal of the EU-funded BIOTEX ('Bio-sensing textile for health management') project. As the first of its kind, the project is developing opti ...

Article - News Staff - May 24 2007 - 2:24pm