Heat transfer between materials is focus of new research grant
Managing heat is a major challenge for engineers who work on devices from jet engines to personal electronics to nano-scale transistors.
Nanophysics
Apr 30, 2008
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US Patent Office rejects company's claim for bean commonly grown by Latin American farmers
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rejected all of the patent claims for a common yellow bean that has been a familiar staple in Latin American diets for more than a century.
Other
Apr 30, 2008
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'4-D' ionosphere map helps flyers, soldiers, ham radio operators
Today, at the Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colo., NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new “4D” live model of Earth’s ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the dynamic layer ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2008
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Scientists discover how some bacteria survive antibiotics
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered how some bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment by turning on resistance mechanisms when exposed to the drugs. The findings, published in the April 24 ...
Apr 30, 2008
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Research Could Cut Aircraft Development Costs, Improve Safety
A distressing fact for aeronautical engineers: Scale model airplanes don't fly anything like their full-sized counterparts. And that makes aircraft design a lot more difficult.
Engineering
Apr 30, 2008
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Faster than a Speeding Bubble
What do melting chocolate and bubbles in a champagne glass have in common? Besides being treats one might sample at a sophisticated soiree, they are both handy examples of first-order phase transitions in which a material ...
General Physics
Apr 30, 2008
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Students to Test 'Tsunami Shelters'
Their tsunami shelters are only made out of small wooden blocks and held together by toothpaste used for glue, but they also incorporate months of study with computer-aided design, learning about engineering principles, applying ...
Other
Apr 30, 2008
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Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor'
HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.
General Physics
Apr 30, 2008
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UCR professor studies engineering and invention on the half-shell
Marine snails, sea urchins, and other animals from the sea are teaching researchers in UC Riverside’s Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering how to make the world a better place.
Apr 30, 2008
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Climate modelers see modern echo in '30s Dust Bowl
Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, turning an ordinary drying ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2008
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