http://www.ccnmag.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:47:00 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/sun_delivered_curveball_of_radiation_at_earth A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred on Jan. 17, 2012, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade CalTechNews Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:36:48 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/smart_bullet_a_tiny_guided_missile Sandia National Laboratories engineers have invented a bullet that directs itself to a target like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than a mile away CalTechNews Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:12:18 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/wire_four_atoms_wide,_one_atom_tall_created The smallest wires ever developed in silicon -- just one atom tall and four atoms wide -- has been shown by a team of researchers to have the same current-carrying capability as copper wires. CalTechNews Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:20:30 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/world_s_lightest_material_created A team of researchers have developed the world's lightest material -- with a density of 0.9 mg/cc -- about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam™. CalTechNews Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:20:18 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/will_solar_flares_be_catastrophic_in_2012_ Scientists have been warning that the sun's solar cycle which peaks in 2012, could cause powerful solar storms that could leave many places on earth without communication and electricity for months CalTechNews Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:34:22 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/spies_can_hide_secret_messages_in_bacteria,_scientists_say Espionage just got a little more sophisticated and scientific. Invisible ink? Decoder rings? Lemon juice? Puh-lease -- that's mere child's play compared to what double agents scientists at Tufts University just created CalTechNews Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:39:57 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/cloaking_magnetic_fields_first_antimagnet_developed Spanish researchers have designed what they believe to be a new type of magnetic cloak, which shields objects from external magnetic fields, while at the same time preventing any magnetic internal fields from leaking outside, making the cloak undetectable CalTechNews Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:47:06 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/lasers_to_detect_roadside_bombs A research team at Michigan State University has developed a laser that could detect roadside bombs -- the deadliest enemy weapon encountered in Iraq and Afghanistan CalTechNews Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:37:04 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/microbes_clean_up_waste,_generate_electricity Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals CalTechNews Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:17:32 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/extent_of_fukushima_radiation_measured Atmospheric chemists report the first quantitative measurement of the amount of radiation leaked from the damaged nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this year CalTechNews Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:09:27 +0100