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Location: The University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA 1-800-789-PENN © 2007, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, United States
Researchers found that previous studies had
numerous methodological and analytical flaws, including the fact that
they were not designed to test the hypothesis that psychotherapy extends
the lives of cancer patients....
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Location: 225 South University Street,,West Lafayette, IN 47907-2093, United States
Tiny pores within plant cells may hold
promise for green fuels. Researchers have discovered that particles from
cornstalks undergo previously unknown structural changes when processed to
produce ethanol, an insight they said will help establish...
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Location: 333 Cedar Street | P.O. Box 208066 | New Haven, CT 06520-8066, United States
Antidepressants increase the presence of a growth factor in the brain, which then leads to a
proliferation of new cells, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine
researchers in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of...
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Location: Georgia, United States
Composite nanomaterials, which encapsulate inorganic dielectrics in an organic polymer matrix, promise to double the charge storage capabilities of capacitors, as well as supercharge plastic circuits with high-k dielectric gate oxides, according...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
Antidepressants increase the presence of a growth factor in the brain, which then leads to a
proliferation of new cells, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine
researchers in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of...
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Location: Sandia National Laboratories,PO Box 969,Livermore, CA 94551-0969, United States
An electrical circuit that should carry
enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear
fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive
preliminary experiments and computer...
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Location: University of California,Riverside, CA 92521, United States
A limitation in using hydrogen as a fuel in hydrogen-powered vehicles is the
difficulty involved in storing it in a cost-effective and convenient manner.
While it is possible to store hydrogen using metals, the resulting products
often can...
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Location: 1 University Station C1600,Austin, Tx 78712-0264,University of Texas at Austin, United States
The convoluted
tangle describing turbulence has been visualized for the first time by a group
of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT).
Their work, published in the...
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Location: Hofgartenstraße 8,80539 Munich,Telephon: +49 (89) 2108 - 0,, Germany
A human body has more than 10 to the power of
27 molecules with about one hundred thousand different shapes and functions.
Interactions between molecules determine our structure and keep us alive.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,7000 East Avenue • Livermore, CA 94550, United States
Livermore
researchers have moved one step closer to being able to turn on and off the
decay of a nuclear isomer.The protons and neutrons in a nucleus can be arranged
in many ways. The arrangement with the lowest energy is called the ground...
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Location: Biorobotics Laboratory,Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Washington,University of Washington,Seattle, WA 98195-2500, United States
This week Raven, the mobile
surgical robot
developed by the University of...
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Location: Nanobiotechnology Center ,350 Duffield Hall ,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Atten: Randy Hess (rbh27@cornell.edu),PHONE 607-254-5393FAX 607-254-5375, United States
To help light up the nanoworld, a Cornell interdisciplinary team of
researchers has produced microscopic "nanolamps" -- light-emitting c
about the size of a virus or the tiniest of bacteria.In a collaboration of experts in organic...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
With a major grant from the Office of Naval
Affairs, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are collaborating with
four other universities to address a hot topic in today’s military: how to keep
modern ships cool in extreme...
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Location: Ames, Iowa 50011, (515) 294-4111.,Iowa State University of Science and Technology, United States
John Hauptman stood before an international gathering of particle physicists
and announced he had another idea.
One that was different. One that was simpler. And best of all, one that he
was sure would work.
It was the August...
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Location: Department of Physics and Astronomy, 12 Physics Hall, Ames, IA 50011, (515) 294-5440,, United States
Try as they might, ancient alchemists could never turn
lead into gold. Neither can the members of the Novel Materials group at the
U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. But these physicists do have a way
with materials, and they can...
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Location: UNBC, 3333 University Way, Prince George, BC, V2N 4Z9, Canada
X-ray vision is yesterday’s news. Terahertz
technology is the wave of the future. Terahertz occupies space on the
electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and x-rays and that’s where UNBC
prof Matt Reid has focused his vision. He has just...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory,9700 S. Cass Avenue,Argonne, IL 60439.,Phone: 630/252-2000, United States
Researchers at
the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of
Notre Dame have successfully applied X-ray scattering techniques to determine
how dissolved metal ions interact in solution.These findings will help...
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Location: NIST Physics Laboratory,100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8400,Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8400, United States
For a variety of applications in physics and technology, ranging from quantum
information theory to telecommunications, it’s handy to have access to pairs of
photons created simultaneously, with a chosen energy. In a significant
improvement...
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Location: NIST-Boulder, MS 104.00, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colo. 80305-3328, United States
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford and
Northwestern Universities have built micrometer-sized solid-state lasers in
which a single quantum dot can play a dominant role in the device’s...
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Location: EMBL Monterotondo, Adriano Buzzati-Traverso Campus, Via Ramarini 32, 00016 Monterotondo, Italy
Inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's
disease and Ulcerative Colitis, severely impair the lives of more than four
million people worldwide. The development of effective therapies against these
diseases requires an understanding of...
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