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Feb 9 | News
Enrico Fermi’s fanciful vision of a particle accelerator that encircled the globe is probably impractical. This is why researchers at the Univ. of Chicago and Fermilab are instead looking for ways to pack more energy into each particle meter of acceleration. Niobium, one of the best superconducting elements out there, might help us up the ante.
12/8/2009 | News
New high-energy particle research by a team working with data from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory further heightens the uncertainty about the exact nature of a key theoretical component of modern physics—the massive fundamental particle called the Higgs boson.
7/24/2009 | News
The Argon Neutrino Teststand, or ArgoNeuT, uses technology that could be key to unveiling the role that neutrinos played in the early universe.
6/30/2009 | News
Found by physicists with the CDF experiment at Fermilab, the Omega-sub-b (Ob), is the latest entry in the periodic table of baryons.
Mar 15
The recent review of the past 10 years of the National Nanotechnology Initiative--as presented by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology--suggested the rise of nanomanufacturing as the near future of nanotechnology. But the actual proposed funding reflects a cautious approach, even about nanotech in general.
Mar 5
I typically attend the annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy each year in pursuit of specific coverage. This year, I sought out candidates for coverage in a vacuum technology article, and pulled together some instruments for a spectroscopy guide. But as busy as that kept me, it wasn’t all mass spectrometers and vacuum pumps on the show floor.
7 hours ago
At the AudiologyNOW! 2010 show in San Diego next month, UK-based coatings company P2i will display their relatively new Aridion liquid-repellant nano-coating. Designed for exposure to humidity or sweat, the polymer layer is applied by a pulsed ion gas process that lower’s the hearing aid’s surface energy, coaxing water away from delicate components.
Mar 10
Fluid Imaging Technologies recently introduced its Submersible FlowCAM particle and cell imaging and analysis system at Ocean Sciences 2010 in Portland, Ore. The remote sensing platform can be used for continuous, unattended monitoring tethered to research vessels or autonomous submersibles.