Carbon-based electronics
In addition to being very strong and flexible, carbon nanotubes also have unusual electronic properties. Nanotubes are described by two numbers, conventionally m and n, and a specific nanotube can be ...
Battery boost
The growth in the use of mobile phones and portable computers is placing new demands on battery technology, but a new type of lithium battery could solve many of these problems
Replicating objects by laser light
One of the biggest changes in CAD design in the past five years is the creation of models direct from the CAD package using machine controlled tools. Recently, this design process took another leap fo...
Testing the water
The detection and monitoring of metals and organic compounds in water, is normally done by having an technician collect on-site field samples. These samples are then take back to a laboratory. Though ...
Collision course for fusion
They claim that the “colliding beam fusion reactor” is superior to the tokamak approach favoured by the international fusion community. The University of Florida/University of California-I...
Radioactive waste reaches water
The studies were carried out by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on the behalf of the Department of Energy. According to the reports, waste from at least five of the tanks has seeped 70m belo...
Homes to plug into the Internet
Norweb Communications and Northern Telecom have announced a new high speed communications system which transmits data over powerlines
Flatter TV displays
The cathode ray tube may make a comeback in the TV display wars, with a new amorphic diamond film
Light up your heart
Pacemakers work by sending a electrical pulse from a pacemaker through a lead to endocardial tissue, a layer of tissue which is then simulated inside the heart. The lead passes into the heart through ...
JET sets fusion record
Fusion experiments at the Joint European Torus (JET) fusion project in Oxfordshire, UK, are more than halfway to breakeven – the point where the power produced by the reactor equals that supplie...
