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US and international Scientists are acquiring new insights into how high pressures transform hydrogen into a liquid metal by using intense laser pulses to crush deuterium. Were liquid hydrogen ever …

A team of Russian and German scientists has devised a system to measure temperatures and magnetic fields at high resolution. They based their system on their finding that the strength …

Yet another experiment with graphene—this one testing the behavior of liquid hydrogen, helium and nitrogen near the atom-thin substance—may allow scientists to one day customize nanoscale coatings for wearable electronics …

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A team from Rutgers University has fulfilled a 53-year old prediction and created a new class of two-dimensional artificial materials with ferroelectric-like properties at room temperature—that can conduct electricity. Read …

In a step toward preventing engineering failures, a team from Texas A&M University has taken the first 3D image of a microscopic crack propagating through a damaged metal. They have …

The man who wrote the book on sampling systems has the answers "Connecting a process analyzer to an industrial plant may seem to be a simple task; but really, it’s …

Researchers from Germany and Sweden have used a powerful X-Ray laser to heat water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a millionth of a millionth of …

“Dream come true” test results show that it is possible to create superconductors close to room temperature—although it requires pressure 2 million times greater than that at the Earth’s surface …

Engineers in the UK and China have developed a new method, Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT), for measurement of industrial scale gas-liquid mass transfer. It’s simpler than traditional techniques that provide …

Physicists from the University of Exeter have figured out a way to “funnel” solar energy into an atoms-thick semiconductor chip. They succeeded in converting a far higher percentage of the …

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At the annual IMEC Technology Forum in mid-August, engineers made the case that Ruthenium is a good candidate for replacing copper wiring, which presents problems with resistivity and electromigration as …

Scientists in China and Canada have discovered a low-cost method of improving the recovery of oil that better controls the hydrodynamic instability referred to as “viscous fingering.” Read the abstract …

If unreliable analyzers are plaguing you, we suggest ten steps that will help you improve them. Start with the simplest possible problem, such as an installation issue—maybe you have a …

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers have developed a technique that answers one question of why lithium-oxygen batteries, which can hold 5 times the power of lithium-ion batteries, tend …