Location: NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
GAITHERSBURG, MD—In the initial studies of a new class of high-temperature
superconductors discovered earlier this year, research at the Commerce
Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has revealed
that new...
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Location: Nist-301) 975-NIST (6478), TTY (301) 975-8295, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
The NIST team investigated the dietary accumulation, elimination and
toxicity of two types of fluorescent quantum dots using a simple,
laboratory-based food chain with two microscopic aquatic organisms—Tetrahymena
pyriformis, a...
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Location: Houston, United States
Lunar dust could be more than a housekeeping issue for astronauts who visit the moon. Their good health may depend on the amount of exposure they have to the tiny particles.
To prepare for a return to the moon, researchers with the National...
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Location: massachusetts, United States
Having found that whether bacteria stick to surfaces depends partly on how stiff those surfaces are, it has been created ultra thin films made of polymers that could be applied to medical devices and other surfaces to control microbe accumulation....
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Location: Institute for NanoScience and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, United States
University of
Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic—or
carbon-based—molecules exhibit the properties of atoms under certain
circumstances and, in...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
For almost half a century, scientists have struggled with
plutonium contamination spreading further in groundwater than expected,
increasing the risk of sickness in humans and animals.
It was known...
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Location: Dartmouth College, United States
Two
Dartmouth researchers have determined that the element chromium displays
electrical properties of magnets in surprising ways. This finding can be used in
the...
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Location: University of California - San Diego, United States
UC San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke
machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making
realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse
piercing...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
A new approach is able to create a dramatic improvement in
cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. By using a popcorn-ball
design -- tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres -- researchers at
the...
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Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), United States
Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size
and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth.
Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth
at the time of...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
There’s a strange wave phenomenon that’s plagued rocket
scientists for years, a lurking threat with the power to destroy an engine at
almost any time. For decades, scientists have had a limited understanding of how
or why...
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Location: Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, United States
For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of
science fiction — in last summer's blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys
use quantum computing to break into the
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a
drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental
state of matter created by scientists at the
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Location: American Chemical Society (ACS), United States
Nanotechnology is now available in a store near you. Valued
for it’s antibacterial and odor-fighting properties, nanoparticle silver is
becoming the star attraction in a range of products from socks to bandages to
washing...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
Electronic commands passed from machine to machine over data
networks increasingly drive today’s precisely timed and sequenced manufacturing
production lines. However timing irregularities in the signals from even one
...
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Location: University of Missouri, Colombia
A modern computer contains two different types of components:
magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor
components, which perform logic operations. A
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Location: University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Emerging computer technologies will change our lives for the
better by 2020. But we need to retain control to ensure that these developments
do not impact negatively on basic human values, according to a new report
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Location: Ohio State University, United States
Researchers funded by the
National Science Foundation (NSF)
announced today in Astrophysical Journal Letters that they have discovered a
faraway binary star system that...
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Location: University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
An international team of astronomers has found 10 new “extra
solar” planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a
system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these
other...
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Location: University of Rochester, United States
Researchers at the
University of Rochester
have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a
regular MP3 file.
The music, a...
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