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Location: Cambridge, United States
In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally
occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other
large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural
materials and...
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Location: California , United States
Roughly the size of a matchstick, a slender titanium tube could become a
pint-sized weapon against chronic hepatitis C and a host of other debilitating
diseases.
Three UCSF/UC Berkeley doctoral students are designing a tiny implantable...
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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: San Diego, United States
Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the
existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold
fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group of scientists, for...
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Location: Georgia, United States
Abstract: Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prosthetic
vein valve to help improve the lives of those suffering from a condition known
as chronic venous insufficiency. The condition, which affects more...
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Location: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States
A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and
experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might
be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide
captured...
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Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Looking for evidence of life on Mars or other planets?
Finding cellulose microfibers would be the next best thing to a close encounter,
according to new research from the ...
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Location: Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, United States
In a new NASA
study, researchers taking advantage of improvements in satellite sensor
capabilities offer the first measurement-based estimate of the amount of
pollution...
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Location: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Department of Energy, United States
If the Flintstones had electricity, their wires might have
been made of rock. New results in Science Express show that a chunk of hematite
can conduct electrons under certain chemical conditions. In addition, the
current...
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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: National Center for Electron Microscopy, Department of Energy, United States
TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope —
capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth
of a meter), less than the diameter of a single
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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: Sandia National Laboratory, United States
The birth secret of buckyballs -- hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a
strand of DNA -- has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia
National Laboratory and Rice...
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Location: 461 So. Milpitas Blvd, Bldg. 5, Suite 1 and 2, Milpitas, CA 95035, United States
Space Systems/Loral
(SS/L) announced that the final four SS/L designed satellites built for
Globalstar, Inc. are scheduled to be
launched October 21st on a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur...
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Location: Stefano Stanghellini, ESO, Garching, Germany
Today, the first of the two
ALMA antenna
transporters was given its name at a ceremony on the compounds of the
manufacturer, the heavy- vehicle specialist Scheuerle...
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Location: University of Michigan, 412 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1399, United States
Stroll around any university campus, and you're bound to see students
text-messaging friends, posting their thoughts on blogs, playing computer games
and listening to downloaded music in their free moments. The iPod-Myspace weblog...
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Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1SZ ,, United Kingdom
Samples of micro organisms, antibodies, fluorescent dyes and
rock from Devon are amongst a European payload which will be sent into near
Earth orbit this week onboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft - exposing them to
the extreme conditions...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue, cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
Rresearchers have found that the body's innate ability to adapt to recurring
stimuli could be leveraged to design more effective and less costly artificial
respirators. The new approach could minimize the need for the induced sedation
or...
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Location: Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he has taught for 34 years., Pakistan
Internal causes led to
the decline of Islam's scientific greatness long before the era of mercantile
imperialism. To contribute once again, Muslims must be introspective and ask
what went wrong.
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
The ability of carbon nanotubes to withstand repeated stress yet retain their structural and mechanical integrity is similar to the behavior of soft tissue, according to a new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
When paired with...
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