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Location: California Institute of Technology, ,M.C. 128-95, Pasadena, CA, 91125,, United States
Physicists seeking
to tame plasma have figured out yet another of its wily ways. Knowing how plasma
escapes the grip of magnetic fields may help researchers design better magnetic
bottles to contain it. Magnetic confinement could be a...
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Location: 106 Riley-Robb Hall,Cornell University,Ithaca, NY 14853,607 255-2465, United States
A Cornell researcher is working
to develop a quick, simple and cheap immune-system test for people in the
developing world. It could help HIV/AIDS sufferers in the poorest countries get
appropriate treatment to extend their lives, possibly...
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Location: University of Colorado,440 UCB,Boulder, CO 80309-0440, United States
JILA physicists
are investigating complex and interesting materials, circuits, and devices based
on ultracold atoms instead of electrons. Collectively known as atomtronics, they
have important theoretical advantages over conventional...
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Location: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, United States
University of
California, Riverside Computer Science & Engineering Professors Michalis
Faloutsos and Srikanth Krishnamurthy will be designing battle-hardened wireless
network architecture for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of a...
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Location: Purdue University,915 W. State Street,West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054, United States
Researchers at Purdue University and The Catholic University of America have discovered the structure of an enzyme essential for the operation of "molecular motors" that package DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly.
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Location: NIST-Boulder, MS 104.00, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colo. 80305-3328, United States
Using
a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has
shed new light on one of...
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Location: JILA ,University of Colorado,Boulder CO 80309-0440, United States
A key challenge in developing new nanotechnologies is figuring out a fast, low-noise technique for translating small mechanical
motions into reasonable electronic signals. Solving this problem will one day make it possible to build electronic...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
As the electronics industry continues to churn
out smaller and slimmer portable devices, manufacturers have been challenged to
find new ways to combat the persistent problem of thermal management. New
research published in the March 19 issue...
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Location: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge, MA 02139-4307617.253.7403, United States
If you spotted an anaconda poised to strike,
the signal to pay attention would originate in a different part of your brain
than if you gazed at an anaconda in the zoo, neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report...
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Location: University of Colorado/JILA,CU JILA Tower, room A-225,Boulder, CO 80309, United States
Konrad Lehnert
and his group investigate the basic physics of nanoelectronic devices to verify
the consistency of basic electrical units, including the amp, the volt, and the
ohm. As an initial step they want to better understand why...
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Location: Stem Cell Research Program,University of Wisconsin-Madison ,T680 Waisman Center,1500 Highland Avenue,
Madison, WI 53705-2280 ,Tel: 608-265 8668,FAX: 608-265 4103, United States
For the millions of Americans whose vision is slowly ebbing due to degenerative diseases of the eye, the lowly neural progenitor cell may be riding to the rescue.
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Location: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
Modern technology uses many frequencies
of electromagnetic radiation for communication, including radio waves, TV
signals, microwaves and visible light. Now, a University of Utah study shows how
far-infrared light – the last unexploited...
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Location: 1101 University Avenue,Madison, WI 53706,University of Wisconsin System, United States
At the root of scientific study are observations made with the eyes; yet in
nanoscience, our eyes fail us. The smallest object we can see still looms
thousands of times larger than a typical nano-sized structure. Even the most
powerful...
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Location: JILA,University of Colorado,440 UCB,Boulder, CO 80309-0440,303) 492-7789,FAX: 303-492-5235, United States
JILA a world leader in the development of frequency-stabilized lasers and precision optical frequency metrology. They use ultrafast lasers, fiber optics, and optical cavities to create highly correlated light pulses. The pulses have a spectrum...
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Location: Chemistry & Biochemistry,Georgia Institute of Technology,901 Atlantic Drive,Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, United States
Producing three-dimensional polymer line
structures as small as 65 nanometers wide just became easier with new two-photon
absorbing molecules that are sensitive to laser light at short wavelengths,
allowing researchers to create them without...
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Location: Berkeley, CA-94720, United States
The BATT Program
addresses the fundamental problems of chemical and mechanical instabilities that
have impeded the development of EV, HEV, and FCEV batteries with acceptable
costs, lifetimes, and safety. The aim is to identify and better...
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Location: PASADENA, Calif, United States
Quick response! What's the best thing to do on a lifeboat with one too many people on board? Should one throw a mortally injured person overboard to ensure definite survival for everyone else, or refuse to act and ensure certain death for all...
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Location: Central university administration,Department for research and project management,
Line: Dr. Jens Hemmelskamp,Secretariat: Claudia Wessling ,,Seminarstr. 269117 HeidelbergUniversity of Heidelberg, Germany
A salient example of global changes, which concern no longer individual countries or regions, but mankind as a whole, is the trend for urbanization (urbanisation) and the propagation of million and “megacities” on all continents of the earth, in...
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Location: The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory ,
2575 Sand Hill Road, MS: 99, Menlo Park, California, 94025Tel: 650-926-4000 | Fax: 650-926-3600, United States
Improving the quality of a high magnification image on an optical microscope is
simply a matter of cranking up the intensity of the illumination lamp. The
same is true for x-ray microscopes, but complications arise when there just
aren't...
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