Location: Wales, United Kingdom
BETHESDA, Md. (Feb. 24, 2009) − When participants performed a mentally fatiguing task prior to a difficult exercise test, they reached exhaustion more quickly than when they did the same exercise when mentally rested, a new study finds.
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Location: Wales, United Kingdom
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Location: Princeton, United States
Researchers may be able to "freeze" water into a solid, not by cooling but by confining it to narrow spaces less than one-millionth of a millimeter wide, according to new results from an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers.
It's...
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Location: Yale University, United States
Without better techniques for manufacturing nanoscale devices, many will remain in the lab. The chip industry also needs better nanoscale manufacturing techniques to create ever denser data storage and ever faster microprocessors. A technique...
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Location: Austin, United States
A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, energy storage and...
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Location: San Diego, United States
A record breaking amplifier for high capacity wireless communications systems has been developed. New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality.
New imaging and high capacity wireless...
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Location: Pennsylvania, American Samoa
A simple, chemical materials model may lead to a better understanding of the structure and organization of the cell according to a Penn State researcher.
"Cells are interesting because they show organization even at the level of the cytoplasm,...
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Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
In Britain, a study of adolescents emphasizes the prevalence of vitamin D. Above all, it highlights the effect of such a deficit in muscle strength. The best solution: leave every day!
A new study published in the Journal of Clinical...
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Location: Navada, United States
Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that it expanded its DisplayPort test
solution with the most flexible, comprehensive solution for design,
characterization and debug, as well as compliance testing for source and sink.
This allows...
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Location: Intel Corporation, United States
Intel has long dominated the market for personal-computer and server chips,
but as sales of these components decline, the Santa Clara, CA, company is hoping
to get a better toehold in new markets, particularly those for smart phones,...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Edinburgh, United States
Researchers have moved closer to making silicon chips which could one day be
used to repair damaged tissue in the human body.
Edinburgh University has developed a technique, which allows neurons to grow in
fine, detailed patterns...
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Location: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, United Kingdom
A team of scientists at the Defence Science
and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), in collaboration with
Corus, have developed an advanced
armour steel called Super...
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Location: Alberta, Canada
INDIVIDUAL SILICON ATOMS can exhibit electronic properties typical of quantum
dots composed of thousands of atoms, according to researchers at Canada's
National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta, Edmonton
(Phys....
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Location: Wisconsin, United States
Looking at the site today, it’s easy to forget that a dam and pond stood for
43 years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Franbrook Farm Research
Station in southwestern Wisconsin. All traces of the structure are gone, and...
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Location: Georgia Tech Research Institute, United States
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing increasingly important roles in
many fields. Ranging in size from the huge Global Hawk aircraft to hand-held
machines, these remotely controlled devices are growing ever more vital to the
U.S....
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Location: Atlanta, United States
Airline passengers arriving in Atlanta on early morning “redeye” flights
during the past few months may have noticed something different during their
descent to the runway. Instead of the typical sound of engine power rising and...
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Location: Helsinki, Finland
Researchers in Finland have created a form of carbon-nanotube based
information storage that is comparable in speed to a type of memory commonly
used in memory cards and USB "jump" drives.
The group's memory scheme has a...
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Location: Clausthal, Germany
Since 1970, scientists have been working with “optical tweezers” - lasers
that move microscopic amounts of matter using forces originating from the light
matter interaction. Now, for the first time, researchers have demonstrated...
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