Trapping liquid chemicals in crystals form may lead to better, safer and cheaper medicines and more environmentally-friendly chemicals for the farm A new approach for formulating the active... Read more
At the Vienna University of Technology, a new class of thermoelectric materials has been discovered. Due to a surprising physical effect they can be used to create electricity more efficient... Read more
Bringing light to a halt: Physicists at the technical university freeze motion of light for a minute
Efficient information storage by stopped light. Physicists in Darmstadt have been able to stop something that has the greatest possible speed and that never really stops: light. The physicis... Read more
NEW ANTI-COCAINE VACCINE RESEARCH SHOWS DRUG CAN’T REACH THE BRAIN, HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS ON THE HORIZON Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have successfully tested their nov... Read more
A new way of making crystalline silicon, developed by U-M researchers, could make this crucial ingredient of computers and solar cells much cheaper and greener. Silicon dioxide, or sand, mak... Read more