Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory, DOE, United States
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven
National Laboratory have shown that in a class of materials called
manganites, the electronic behavior at the surface is considerably different...
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Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory, DOE, United States
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new tool for quantitatively measuring elusive atmospheric chemicals that play a key role in the formation of...
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Location: Brown University, United States
Nearly a century ago, Dutch physicist Kamerlingh Onnes discovered that some
metals transform into perfect electrical conductors when cooled to temperatures
near absolute zero. Once started, their currents of electrons can flow
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Location: Louisiana State University, Louisiana, United States
Early on the morning of Nov. 16, Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh and showed no
mercy. The death toll continues to rise even today. Hundreds of thousands of
people were left homeless. But, nearly 24 hours in advance of the storm, Hassan
...
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Location: University of Bath, United Kingdom
With public concern over online fraud, new research, funded by the Economic
and Social Research Council, has revealed that internet users will reveal
more personal information...
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Location: University of Granada, Spain
The research team from the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the
University of Granada (UGR), together with the Department of Radiology at the
Hospital Virgen de...
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Location: Fraunhofer Techologie-Entwicklungsgruppe, Germany
Carbon
nanotubes possess extraordinary mechanical, physical and chemical properties
including actuation behaviour on both nano and...
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Location: University of Houston, United States
The technology that makes a cell phone vibrate is the same technology that
provides more natural movements to prosthetic limbs. A University
of Houston research team is working on recreating and enhancing this...
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Location: University of Bath, United Kingdom
A discovery of a new way to manipulate light a million times more efficiently than before is announced in the journal Science this week.
Using a special hollow-core photonic crystal fibre, a team at the
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Location: Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT, United States
MIT scientists have devised remotely
controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field,
release drugs to attack tumors. The innovation, reported in the Nov. 15 online
issue of Advanced...
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Location: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
TU
Delft will demonstrate how improved control techniques can reduce the risk
of aircraft crashes. The demonstration involves reconstructing...
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Location: Pennsylvania State University, United States
You may not be able to get blood out of a turnip, but according to Penn
State engineers, you can increase the data transmission of Category-7 copper
cables used to connect computers to each other and the...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
Imagine you are taking an introductory biology course. You're studying for an
exam and realize it would be helpful to revisit the professor's explanation of
RNA interference. Fortunately for you, a digital recording of the lecture is
online,...
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Location: Division of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, United States
Early puberty in girls has been found to negatively affect these teenagers’
health in areas such as mood disorders, substance abuse, adolescent pregnancy,
and cancers of the reproductive system. Given these findings, it is critical to
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Location: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, United States
A NASA satellite designed, built and
controlled by the University of Colorado
at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions
about the...
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Location: University of Toronto, Canada
A massive survey conducted by researchers at the University
of Toronto reveals Americans living in states with high rates of income
inequality are significantly more likely to have a disability that...
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Location: Rice University, United States
What is the fundamental creative force behind life on Earth" It's a
question that has vexed mankind for millennia, and thanks to theory and almost a
year's worth of number-crunching on a supercomputer,
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Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States
A new indicator of variations in hemoglobin level over time is a strong predictor of the risk of death among patients receiving dialysis for end-stage renal disease (ESRD), reports a study in the December Journal of the
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Location: Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, United States
An immune
system messenger molecule that normally helps quiet inflammation
could be an effective tool...
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