Location: Washington DC, United States
This investigation's objective is to obtain spectroscopic observations of
potential comet-asteroid transition objects and extinct comet candidates using
ground-based telescopes to attain the following goals:
1) Identify potential...
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Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) , Germany
An expert group for high performance calculations was officially established on
20 May 2009 at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching near
Munich. The team, named "High-Level-Support-Team" and supported financially
by...
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Location: San Diego, United States
Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the
existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold
fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group of scientists, for...
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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: UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
Tiny strands of genetic material called RNA – a chemical cousin of DNA – are
emerging as major players in gene regulation, the process inside cells that
drives all biology and that scientists seek to control in order to fight
disease....
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Location: McGill University, Canada
Researchers at McGill
University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several
countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of
general...
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Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Researchers have identified a signature for water inside single-walled carbon
nanotubes, helping them understand how water is structured and how it moves
within these tiny channels.
This is the first time researchers were able to...
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Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Looking for evidence of life on Mars or other planets?
Finding cellulose microfibers would be the next best thing to a close encounter,
according to new research from the ...
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Location: Arizona State University, United States
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by
Arizona State
University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport
security checkpoints...
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Location: University of Utah, United States
Final results from the
University of
Utah’s High-Resolution Fly’s Eye cosmic ray observatory show that the most
energetic particles in the universe...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat,
two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your
computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras
placed...
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the
scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of
alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to
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Location: Purdue University, United States
A team led by a
Purdue University
researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had
previously been achieved.
Wen...
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Location: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California - Los Angeles, United States
Scientists have solved a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying
the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that
control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts — belts consisting of
high-energy...
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Location: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States
Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence
on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market...
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Location: University of the Basque Country, Spain
An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from
the Faculty of Science and Technology at the
University of the...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but
scientists at the U.S. Department of
Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory
and their collaborators have...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can detect nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) in tiny samples of fluids flowing through a...
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