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Location: University of California, Berkeley,Mechanical engineering ,
Mail Code 1740,6141 Etcheverry Hall,Berkeley, CA 94720-1740Voice: 510-642-1338,Fax: 510-642-6163, United States
Scientists at the University of California,
Berkeley, have developed a "hyperlens" that brings them one major step closer to
the goal of nanoscale optical imaging.
The new hyperlens, described in...
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Location: Howard Hughes Medical Institute,4000 Jones Bridge Road,Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789,301) 215-8500, United States
Although mice, like most mammals, typically view the world with a limited
color palette—similar to what some people with red-green color blindness
see—scientists have now transformed their vision by introducing a single human
gene into a...
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Location: Mechanical Engineering,,100S Randolph Hall,Blacksburg, VA 24061, United States
Dennis Hong, of Virginia Tech College of Engineering is designing a Whole
Skin Locomotion (WSL) mechanism for robots to work on much the same principle as
the pseudopod -- or cytoplasmic "foot" -- of the amoeba. With its elongated
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Location: Division of Environmental Health Sciences ,College of Public Health,The Ohio State University
320 West 10th Avenue A333-C Starling Loving Hall,Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
Current methods used to sniff out dangerous
airborne pathogens may wrongly suggest that there is no threat to health when,
in reality, there may be.
But researchers have found a better method for
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Location: Institute for Geophysics; J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bldg. 196; 10100 Burnet Road (R2200); Austin TX 78758-4445
Phone: (512) 471-6156; FAX: (512) 471-8844, United States
Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole, Cenote
Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX,
designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions
and potentially...
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Location: 1227C, Chem-Nuc Bldg. 090 ,University of Maryland ,College Park, MD 20742-2111, United States
Members of the Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering's Complex Fluids and Nanomaterials Group, lead by
Assistant Professor Srinivasa Raghavan, have discovered a new class of "smart
fluids" capable of switching from gel to...
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Location: JILA,University of Colorado,440 UCB,Boulder, CO 80309-0440, United States
Researchers are investigating a new kind of
microelectronics called spintronics. These devices will rely on the
spindependent behavior of electrons in addition to (or even instead of)
conventional charge-based circuitry. Researchers in...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
THE UNITED STATES’
worst-ever chlorine gas leak killed nine people and injured 250.
Eighteen months later – despite efforts to clean and restore the textile mill
affected by the leak – 4,000 people lost their...
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Location: University of Bath, BATH, BA2 7AY · University Switchboard: 388388, United Kingdom
An £820,000 research project begins soon which could be an important step in bringing the dream of photonic computers – devices run using light rather than electronics – onto the desktop. Physicists at the University of Bath will be looking at...
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Location: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
By placing electronics from the retired SLAC Large Detector (SLD) next to a
test beam in End Station A, a small group of experimenters is learning how to
protect the detector electronics of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC).
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Location: College of Veterinary Medicine - Ithaca, New York 14853-6401, United States
Genomic instability is a striking feature of many cancers. This instability drives the accumulation of mutations that underlies tumorigenesis, but whether it is absolutely necessary or sufficient for tumor development are controversial issues...
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Location: AIST Tokyo,-3-1, Kasumigaseki,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8921,Tel:+81-3-5501-0900, Japan
Associate Professor Yutaka Maniwa's group with the Graduate School of Science
and Engineering of Tokyo Metropolitan University (President: Junichi Nishizawa)
and Hiromichi Kataura, chief of the Self-Assembled Nano-Electronics Group at the
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Location: Sandia National Laboratories, ,PO Box 969,Livermore, CA 94551-0969, United States
Sandia’s
huge Z machine, which generates temperatures hotter than the sun, has turned
water to ice in nanoseconds.
However, don’t expect anything commercial just
yet: the ice is hotter than the...
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Location: Center for Cancer Research,Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,77 Massachusetts Avenue,Cambridge, MA 02139 ,, United States
Regulation of protein-protein interactions
and signal transduction pathways by protein and lipid phosphorylation. Structure
and function of modular signaling domains. Design of bioinformatics tools for
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Location: Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE2 7LX., United Kingdom
A potential new pain-killing drug developed by medical scientists at the
University of Leicester and Ferrara in Italy is to be discussed at a public
lecture on 20th March.
Professor David Lambert, who has been involved in the...
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Location: Astrophysics Research Institute,
Liverpool John Moores University,,Twelve Quays House,Egerton Wharf,,Birkenhead,,CH41 1LD, United Kingdom
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous, transient objects in the
Universe and represent the most significant new astrophysical phenomenon since
the discovery of quasars and pulsars. The discovery of X-ray and optical
transient...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a tiny
bacterium that could one day transform the way we remove polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) from our environment. The organism could be the key to
developing methods that...
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Location: School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853, United States
A key component of the research has been testing at very large scale in the
Winter Laboratory. Large-scale experiments sponsored by NSF through MCEER and
the U.S.-Japan Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Program in conjunction with
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Location: Bridge Research and Information ,Civil Engineering ,
Department/258 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557Tel: (775) 784-6664 ,Fax: (775) 784-1390, United States
The design of structural bridge elements like columns, beam-column joints,
and cap beams has changed tremendously over the past 30 years. Many experimental
tests have been done in order to determine the behavior of bridge bents under
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Location: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Scientists
learned it straight from the bull's muzzle: cave painting shows evidence of
ancient trade. In collaboration with French museums and research facilities,
Stanford researchers have found evidence of scarce manganese oxide mineral
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