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Standard laser devices are fast enough for measuring the size of a room, but they need to be faster for outdoor mobile applications. Researchers...

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:: 07 November, 2009
Solar wafers for use in the production of photovoltaic systems are extremely sensitive. In a test and demonstration center research is being...

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:: 07 November, 2009
Polishing metal surfaces is a demanding but monotonous task, and it is difficult to find qualified young specialists. Polishing machines do not...

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:: 07 November, 2009
The manufacture of parts by compaction and sintering involves filling a die with metal powder. Research scientists have simulated this process...

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:: 05 November, 2009
NOAA scientists took off Saturday on the second phase of a mission that, when complete, will provide a detailed view of how carbon dioxide and...

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:: 05 November, 2009
Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that...

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:: 04 November, 2009
Sniff, sniff, sniff — Yum! Sniff, sniff, sniff — Oh, yuck!!!
For almost 25 years, chemists and other scientists have tried to build a machine...

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:: 04 November, 2009
It's no bigger than a stamp packet but it has the potential to allow rapid development of a new generation of drugs and genetic engineering...

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:: 03 November, 2009
Tiny laser-scanning microscope images brain cells in freely moving animals.By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a...

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:: 03 November, 2009
When searching for basketball videos online, a long list of websites appears, which may contain a picture or a word describing a basketball. But...

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:: 03 November, 2009
Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor...

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:: 01 November, 2009
Inspired by water-resistant lotus leaves, the Pitt-developed solution repels freezing rain and provides the first evidence of anti-icing ability in...

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:: 31 October, 2009
MIT engineer Joel Dawson and colleagues built a handheld probe that could help doctors monitor muscle atrophy in patients with Lou Gehrig's Disease...

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:: 31 October, 2009
A company that makes steel for bearings used in heavy trucks had a big problem. The trucks travel through harsh, perilous environments such as...

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:: 31 October, 2009
You may update your antivirus software religiously, immediately download all new Windows security patches, and refuse to click any e-mail links...

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:: 31 October, 2009
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists...

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:: 31 October, 2009
A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating...

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:: 31 October, 2009
A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable...

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:: 29 October, 2009
Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigator. GPS satellites send signals...

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:: 29 October, 2009
Racing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within...

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