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Location: Sandia National Laboratories, ,PO Box 969,Livermore, CA 94551-0969, United States
Sandia’s
huge Z machine, which generates temperatures hotter than the sun, has turned
water to ice in nanoseconds.
However, don’t expect anything commercial just
yet: the ice is hotter than the...
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Location: Center for Cancer Research,Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,77 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge, MA 02139 ,, United States
Regulation of protein-protein interactions
and signal transduction pathways by protein and lipid phosphorylation. Structure
and function of modular signaling domains. Design of bioinformatics tools for...
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Location: Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE2 7LX., United Kingdom
A potential new pain-killing drug developed by medical scientists at the
University of Leicester and Ferrara in Italy is to be discussed at a public
lecture on 20th March.
Professor David Lambert, who has been involved in the...
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Location: Astrophysics Research Institute,
Liverpool John Moores University,,Twelve Quays House,Egerton Wharf,,Birkenhead,,CH41 1LD, United Kingdom
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous, transient objects in the
Universe and represent the most significant new astrophysical phenomenon since
the discovery of quasars and pulsars. The discovery of X-ray and optical
transient...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a tiny
bacterium that could one day transform the way we remove polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) from our environment. The organism could be the key to
developing methods that...
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Location: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853, United States
A key component of the research has been testing at very large scale in the
Winter Laboratory. Large-scale experiments sponsored by NSF through MCEER and
the U.S.-Japan Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Program in conjunction with...
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Location: Bridge Research and Information ,Civil Engineering ,
Department/258 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557Tel: (775) 784-6664 ,Fax: (775) 784-1390, United States
The design of structural bridge elements like columns, beam-column joints,
and cap beams has changed tremendously over the past 30 years. Many experimental
tests have been done in order to determine the behavior of bridge bents under...
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Location: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Scientists
learned it straight from the bull's muzzle: cave painting shows evidence of
ancient trade. In collaboration with French museums and research facilities,
Stanford researchers have found evidence of scarce manganese oxide mineral...
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Location: Stanford University. Stanford, CA 94305. (650) 723-2300., United States
There is no such thing as a free lunch, some say, but they would be wrong. In fact, the entirety of the universe defies them. According to physics Professor Andrei Linde, one of the architects of the inflationary theory, our universe—and all...
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Location: Stanford University,CA 94305. (650) 723-2300., United States
Improving the quality of a high magnification image on an optical microscope is simply a matter of cranking up the intensity of the illumination lamp. The same is true for x-ray microscopes, but complications arise when there just aren't enough...
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Location: Leibniz University of Hanover Welfengarten 1 ,30167 Hannover, Germany
Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of weakly interacting atomic gases plays an important role in modern physics. It is related to statistical physics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, atomic physics and quantum optics.
Generally BEC is...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are applying engineering expertise to the dental industry – a field that is often as much art as it is science.
For example, the
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Location: 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Gas filled microbubbles (about 2 - 4 µm) oscillate in an ultrasound field of their resonance frequency (about 1-1.5 MHz). At high ultrasound energies, microbubbles disintegrate, due to high amplitude oscillations. Such ultrasound targeted...
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Location: Mile End Road, London,E1 4NS, United Kingdom
Unforced nanoelectrospray can exhibit a number of stable spray modes. These include low frequency pulsations, high frequency pulsations, and a steady cone-jet. Experiments are reported here on such pulsations that have been observed in various...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue, cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United Kingdom
MIT researchers have created an inexpensive method to screen for millions of
different biomolecules (DNA, proteins, etc.) in a single sample--a technology
that could make possible the development of low-cost clinical bedside
diagnostics. ...
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Location: PO BOX 8550,5605 KN Eindhoven,
High Tech Campus 48 5656 AE Eindhoven,, Netherlands
VISION
Our future life evolves towards a world where microsystems will add intelligence
to almost every object that surrounds us. Sensing and actuating functionalities
will be 'hidden' in the environment. They will be...
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Location:
120 Research and Technology Center,Athens, OH 45701-2979, Greece
Antifreeze or “ice structuring” proteins – found in some fish, insects,
plants, fungi and bacteria – attach to the surface of ice crystals to inhibit
their growth and keep the host organism from freezing to death. Scientists have
been...
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Location: Brookhaven National Lab,P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000(631)344-8000, United States
Although it was discovered more than 20 years ago, a particular type of
high-temperature (Tc) superconductor -- material that conducts electricity with
almost zero resistance -- is regaining the attention of scientists at the U.S....
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Location: California, United States
Scientists have enlisted the most intrepid of bird watchers in an attempt to prove that a majestic woodpecker, believed extinct for more than 60 years, still exists.
The sentry is sharp-eyed robot that has been mounted to a power line high above...
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Location: Chittagong, Bangladesh
In 1987, Ronald Reagan declared that the US was about to enter an incredible new era of technology.
Levitating high-speed trains, super-efficient power generators and ultra-powerful supercomputers would become commonplace thanks to a new breed...
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