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Lasers for Deflecting Asteroids

A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) are conducting research that could one day save humanity from asteroids threatening Earth.

15 Jul 2007

New Class of Ultra-Thin Polymer Films

They said it couldn't be done. And that's what really motivated UD polymer chemist Chris Snively and Jochen Lauterbach, professor of chemical engineering at UD. For years, polymer chemistry textbooks have ...

15 Jul 2007

Robin Santra Wins First-ever Young Scientist Prize for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Robin Santra has been selected as the winner of the first 2007 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Prize for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

15 Jul 2007

Science Students Learn Entrepreneurship Through New Program

Southeastern Louisiana University science students will have the opportunity to learn important business and technology entrepreneurship skills through a new program that puts them in charge of their own non-profit business.

15 Jul 2007

Satellite Remote-Sensing Method Hatches New Cell-Analysis System

Using the same "multispectral analysis" concept that enables satellites to study Earth's surface, Purdue University researchers have developed a new system that quickly determines the composition of cells and tissue for medical diagnostics and scientific applications.

15 Jul 2007

Laser Technologies Help Eradicate Food-Borne Pathogen

Purdue researchers are developing two inexpensive technologies that may be able to prevent future food-borne illness, such as the recent outbreak of E. coli in contaminated spinach.

15 Jul 2007

Researchers Develop Next Generation of Screening Devices

It might not be science fiction much longer. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing the next generation of screening devices that will identify hazardous and toxic materials even if concealed by cl...

15 Jul 2007

World's First Anti-Reflection Coating

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world's first material that reflects virtually no light.

13 Jul 2007

New Type of Laser for Providing High-Resolution 3-D Images of the Retina

In efforts that may improve diagnoses of many eye diseases, researchers will introduce a new type of laser for providing high-resolution 3-D images of the retina, the part of the eye that converts light to electrical signals that travel to the brain.

13 Jul 2007

MRI-Safe Motor Makes Robotic Biopsies Possible

Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Urology Robotics Lab report the invention of a motor without metal or electricity that can safely power remote-controlled robotic medical devices used for cancer biopsies and therapies guided by magnetic resonance imaging.

13 Jul 2007