Physics News

Laser sees straight through you

...

Super slippery material

If you are making a machine with moving parts you often want to make parts slide past each other efficiently. Normally this is achieved by covering the parts with oil or another lu...

Hearing the Light

A breakthrough in the way laser light interacts with nerve cells could greatly improve the quality of hearing for people who require cochlea implants. ...

Rock-steady way to tackle rising Carbon Dioxide

Barrack Obama has famously pledged to put the US at the forefront of global warming (cynics would say it already is!), so it's fitting that a US scientist has this week developed a...

The world’s smallest solar panels

The world’s most minute solar panel cells have been built and tested and one day in the not too distant future they could be used to power even tinier microscopic machines. ...

Nanotube speakers

Conventional loudspeakers work by passing a current though a coil near a magnet. The current creates its own magnetic field and so is pushed or pulled by the magnet. If you keep ch...

Hybrid camera helps to see in more directions

Digital cameras are brilliant at looking in one direction, which is normally what you want to do, but sometimes you need to see to the sidesas well. ...

Researchers roll out new way to make x-rays - with sticky tape

US scientists have made an extraordinary discovery with a roll of sticky tape. By placing the spool in a vacuum and unrolling the tape with a motor they p...

The ST-E-Card

Doctors have developed a new technique with which to tackle the problem of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). At the moment when a patient is diagnos...

Better batteries

Australian researchers could be about to push the electric car market into overdrive with the development of a superior battery that costs a fraction of the amount of the cells use...