Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States
For centuries, engineers have bent and torn metals to test
their strength and ductility. Now, materials scientists at the
University of Pennsylvania
School of Engineering...
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate
three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the
texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or
touch-based,...
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Location: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States
Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence
on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market
...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: University of the Basque Country, Spain
An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from
the Faculty of Science and Technology at the
University of the...
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Location: University of California, Riverside, United States
A
University of California - Riverside -led study in the Mojave Desert,
Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high
...
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Location: University of Arizona in Tucson, United States
Liquid water has not been found on the Martian surface within
the last decade after all, according to new research.
The finding casts doubt on the 2006 report that the bright
spots in some Martian...
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Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
Researchers from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a key molecular mechanism
that may account for the development of cystic fibrosis, which about 1 in 3000
...
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Location: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
scientists achieved to transfer very small charge "packets", comprising a
well-defined number of few electrons, between metallic electrons precisely by
using a...
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Location: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States
A new National Aeronautics and
Space Administration study confirms that the surface temperature of
Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air
temperatures, and...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but
scientists at the U.S. Department of
Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory
and their collaborators have...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the
dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in
their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as
automobile...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can detect nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) in tiny samples of fluids flowing through a...
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Location: Stanford University, United States
All the crucial proteins in our bodies must fold into complex shapes to do
their jobs. These snarled molecules grip other molecules to move them around, to
speed up important chemical reactions or to grab onto our genes, turning them
"on"...
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Location: Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Researchers at the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Ames Laboratory have come up with a potentially perfect way to sort and distribute the...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
As computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections
between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless
card. And as the integrated circuits become more advanced, maximizing their
...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
A comprehensive new study authored by University
at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in
detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important...
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