Location: University of California - Riverside, United States
Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC
Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the “termination shock,” the spherical shell around the...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Treating breast
cancer with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT
radar research can significantly increase the effectiveness of...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Engineers at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and tested a laser-based
ranging system to assess the performance of automobile collision
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Location: University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Scientists at the University of Leeds
are turning low-grade sludge into high-value gas in a process which could make
eco-friendly biodiesel even greener and more economical to produce.
Biodiesel –...
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Location: University of California, Los Angeles, United States
A surgeon accidently kills a patient, undoes the error and starts over again.
Can mathematics make such science fiction a reality?
The day is rapidly approaching when your surgeon can practice on your
"digital double" — a virtual you...
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Location: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, United States
A new study provides the first evidence that people with higher body mass
index (BMI) may have a greater response to ozone than leaner people. Short-term
exposure to atmospheric ozone has long been known to cause a temporary drop in
lung...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
Proper design of computational tools is critical if they are to be used with
success in patient-care settings, particularly in hospital emergency rooms, a
field study conducted by researchers at the
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Location: University of Pennsylvania, United States
Researchers at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine and other study sites have found that
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) – a non-invasive technique that
excites neurons in the...
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Location: University of Toronto, Canada
University of Toronto scientists have
devised a tool to help understand and predict the state of a cell by
successfully mapping all 70,000 nucleosomes in yeast. Nucleosomes wrap DNA
before it is...
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Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
The unknown human health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology are a
bigger worry for scientists than for the public, according to a new report
published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
The new report was based on a...
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Location: University of California, Berkeley, United States
Bioengineers at the University of
California, Berkeley, have discovered a technique that for the first time
enables the detection of biomolecules' dynamic reactions in a single living
cell.
By...
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Location: BASF, Germany
Smaller, faster, more efficient: BASF
research scientists are helping to revolutionize the future world of
telecommunications – with the aid of three-dimensional photonic...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to
ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a
regular basis, about every 14 months. Such episodic tremor-and-slip events
typically last two...
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Location: University of Bonn, Germany
The feelings an individual has on receiving his paycheque depend critically
on how much his colleague earns. Hard evidence for this comes from an experiment
conducted by economists and brain scientists at the University of Bonn. They
tested...
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Location: York University, United States
People with a devastating brain injury that has wiped out many of their
personal memories may still be able to understand other people’s feelings and
intentions, according to a joint study by the Rotman Research Institute at the
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Location: Vanderbilt University, United States
There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work.
In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help
organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite a number
of hypotheses,...
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Location: Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, United States
The Internet is the driver for modern communication, transporting an increasing density of data. Much of this is being carried over optical fibers using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), in which multiple wavelengths are transported along...
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