Discovery Channel's MythBusters have taken on more than 700 myths, from how hard it is to find a needle in a haystack (it's hard) to whether toothbrushes have fecal matter on them (they do). In a recent NPR interview, series hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage talked about the show, including myths about cell phones interfering with airplanes.Listen to the show.Learn more from … [Read more...]
Company to Develop Model for U.S. Navy's Integrated Topside Program Support
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded follow-on and additional task order contracts totaling $69 million from the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the Navy's Integrated Topside (InTop) program.InTop is an innovative, scalable suite of electronic warfare, information operations and line-of-sight communications hardware and software for use on naval surface … [Read more...]
Navy's Electromagnetic Railgun Reaches Testing Milestone
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Materials Testing Facility demonstrated, Oct.31, the one-thousandth successful firing of its Electromagnetic Railgun, reaching a materials testing milestone in the weapon's technological development and future implementation aboard U.S. Navy warships.Without the need for dangerous explosives storage and handling, the Electromagnetic Railgun … [Read more...]
Thinner Solar Cells Absorb Broader Spectrum of Light
A recent discovery in the exotic optical effects on the nanoscale allows thinner and lighter solar cells to absorb a broader spectrum of light.Harry Atwater, a professor of Applied Physics and Materials at Caltech, and Koray Aydin, assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University, have discovered that by creating nanoscale wedge … [Read more...]
Shape-Shifting Metamaterial Reacts to Radiation
Australian physicists have engineered a new kind of artificial substance that can change its structure in response to light or other kinds of radiation.Unlike natural substances, the man-made material does not have fixed physical properties, explains Dr. Ilya Shadrivov, part of the team from the Australian National University who worked on the project.Under normal circumstances … [Read more...]
New $20.7 million Naval Electromagnetic Sensor Facility
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport broke ground for a new $20.7 million Electromagnetic Sensor facility.With the addition of the new facility, NUWC will be well-equipped to keep submarines at the forefront of emerging electromagnetic sensor technologies well into the future. When completed, the 54,000 square foot facility will include six laboratories and … [Read more...]
Solar Panel Composed of Nano-Antennas Harnesses More Power from the Sun
A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University's Department of Physical Electronics and its new Renewable Energy Center are now developing a solar panel composed of nano-antennas instead of semiconductors. By adapting classic metallic antennas to absorb light waves at optical frequencies, a much higher conversion rate from light into useable energy could be achieved. Such … [Read more...]
Company Opens New Factory in Spain
TDK-EPC opened its second factory in Málaga, Spain. The new plant for the development and manufacture of power capacitors offers 6000 square meters of production space. A separate building with 1500 square meters of lab and office space houses the research and development activities. After a transitional period of one to two years all of TDK-EPC’s activities in Málaga will be … [Read more...]
Terahertz Light Pulses Generated Through Thin Metallic Foil
Using leftover high-speed electrons from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source, researchers have successfully generated intense pulses of light in a largely untapped part of the electromagnetic spectrum – the terahertz gap.The researchers generated terahertz light pulses with field strengths comparable to the forces that hold atoms together in … [Read more...]
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Dies at 96
Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into atomic energy levels that led to the creation of the atomic clock and MRI machines, has died. He was 96. Ramsey died in his sleep at a Wayland nursing home on Friday.Ramsey, an emeritus professor of physics at Harvard University and longtime Brookline resident, wrote in his autobiography for the … [Read more...]
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