Wednesday 1 April 2015

Perovskites can improve fabrication of ceramic electronics

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Many ceramic-based electronics, such as spark plugs and multilayer ceramic capacitors (found in consumer electronics, mobile phones, DVDs

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Light-powered gyroscope is world's smallest: Promises a powerful spin on navigation

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A new detection scheme that may lead to the world's smallest gyroscope has been uncovered by scientists. More than creative learning toys, gyroscopes are indispensable components in a number of technologies, including inertial guidance systems, which monitor an object's motion and orientation. Space probes, satellites, and rockets continuously rely on these systems for accurate flight control. But like so many other essential pieces of aerospace technology, weight is a perennial problem.

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Exploratory survey digs into the lived experience of “hearing voices”

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Auditory hallucinations—commonly referred to as "voices in your head"—are a common symptom of some mental illnesses. There’s a widely understood and stereotypical picture of what it means to “hear voices,” but many common perceptions about these experiences don’t hit on the truth. Preconceived ideas such as these are an especially important problem in psychiatric research. It’s difficult to figure out why people hear voices if we don’t really understand what these voices are like in the first place.

Hearing the Voice, a research group at Durham University in England, designed an exploratory survey to figure out where current research might be making incorrect assumptions. The group, which is home to a team of cognitive neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists, medical humanities specialists and others, aims to explore the causes and treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations.

They created a survey that was aimed at anyone who reports hearing voices, whether or not they've received a clinical diagnosis. Participants were recruited through clinical networks, support groups, and mental health forums. The results, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, included both statistical analyses and descriptions of participant responses, highlighting some potentially important departures from conventional wisdom, as well as some promising avenues for further research.

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How many forces?

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If you’ve read many of my columns, you know quite a bit about the Standard Model. You know

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Rise of the machines

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A colourful star-forming region is featured in this stunning image of NGC 2467 located in the southern constellation of Puppis (The Stern). Looking like a roiling cauldron of some exotic cosmic brew, huge clouds of gas and dust are sprinkled with bright blue, hot young stars. Strangely shaped dust clouds, resembling spilled liquids, are silhouetted against a colourful background of glowing gas. Like the familiar Orion Nebula, NGC 2467 is a huge cloud of gas, mostly hydrogen, that serves as an incubator for new stars. Some of these youthful stars have emerged from the dense clouds where they were born and now shine brightly, hot and blue in this picture, but many others remain hidden.

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Suiting Up for the Moon

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This dramatic image was made by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014. It is a section of the Eagle Nebula named The Pillars Of Creation by the Hubble imaging team.

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An efficient path from carbon to renewable fuel production

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Earth-abundant materials based primarily on carbon, nitrogen and transition metal oxides can be combined into highly efficient energy conversion devices. These devices can be used in fuel cells as well as in electrolysis.

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Wrapping carbon nanotubes in polymers enhances their performance

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Scientists say polymer-wrapped carbon nanotubes hold much promise in biotechnology and energy applications.

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive stars. Dust in the cloud is being hit with starlight, causing it to glow with infrared light, which was picked up by WISE's detectors.
The Witch Head nebula is estimated to be hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, just off the famous hunter's knee.
WISE was recently "awakened" to hunt for asteroids in a program called NEOWISE. The reactivation came after the spacecraft was put into hibernation in 2011, when it completed two full scans of the sky, as planned.
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