http://www.caltechnews.com Tue, 22 May 2012 21:26:21 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/flying_3-d_eye-bots Intelligent swarms of aerial drones are a universally useful tool for police, crisis managers and urban planners CalTechNews Fri, 04 May 2012 11:45:17 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/liquid_body_armor_hardens_on_impact A revolutionary new armor relies on a liquid that hardens when something hits it, promising unprecedented protection while letting soldiers move freely, unrestricted by bulk and weight CalTechNews Fri, 04 May 2012 11:00:16 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/cellphones_that_can_see_through_walls_ Comic book hero superpowers may be one step closer to reality after the latest technological feats made by researchers. They have designed an imager chip that could turn mobile phones into devices that can see through walls, wood, plastics, paper and othe CalTechNews Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:26:06 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/magnetic_field_researchers_target_100-tesla_goal Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory's biggest magnet facility have just met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different experiments CalTechNews Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:56:39 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/one-pound_boat_that_could_float_1,000_pounds Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and great strength has yielded an amazing new material so buoyant that, in everyday terms, a boat made from 1 pound of the substance could carry five kitchen ref CalTechNews Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:32:19 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.com/article/laser_fires_most_powerful_laser_blast_in_history The United States' National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California has fired the most powerful laser in history, a record-breaking 2-megajoule shot CalTechNews Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:28:48 +0100 http://www.caltechnews.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.caltechnews.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.caltechnews.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.caltechnews.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