Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
A group of Purdue University researchers has captured a key step in the metabolic process that allows materials, such as nutrients and drug treatments, to move in and out of cells.
A research team led by Jue Chen, an associate professor of biological sciences, obtained a snapshot of the tiny protein ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The more modular genetic information becomes, the more complex the web of life becomes. For example, the human being above is far more complex than the singled-celled yeast used to make these loaves of bread rise, yet humans have only about four times as many genes as yeast cells do. ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
The tiny robot is ringed with sensors that can determine the obstacle-free roaming space, and will either allow infants to bump obstacles or will take control from the infant and drive around the obstacle itself. (Credit: Image courtesy of University Of Delaware)
Babies driving robots. It sounds like the theme of ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Scientists may be one step closer to understanding the atomic forces that cause friction, thanks to a recently published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Houston and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
The research, led by Robert Carpick of the University of Pennsylvania, ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
The government is so short of nuclear inspectors that the programme of new reactors being planned may have to be put on hold, leaked papers show. The business secretary, John Hutton, yesterday warned Gordon Brown that the government has only five inspectors working on the design assessments of the three ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Jennifer Sieck knew something had to be done when she would lie in bed most of the day and night. “It would be a big deal and everyone would get excited if I’d come down to the living room and could sit there for 10 or 20 minutes,” the 38 ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
At the Institut Curie, Simon Scheuring and the research team1, have for the first time observed a diseased tissue at very high resolution using atomic force microscopy (AFM). By studying the membranes of cells in a patient’s eye cataract, Scheuring has discovered the molecular cause of this disease.
This is the ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
This instrument provides a faster, more efficient method for detecting illegal steroids in urine. (Credit: Courtesy of Zheng Ouyang, Purdue University)
Amid growing concerns about sports "doping," researchers in Indiana and China report development of a faster and more efficient method for detecting the presence of illegal anabolic steroids in urine.
Their ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
According to recent flight tests involving NASA and corporate industry, new technologies can help silence jet aircraft, both in the passenger cabin and on the ground. The three-week flight test program, called the Quiet Technology Demonstrator 2, confirmed the effectiveness of a number of significant airplane noise reduction concepts.
The tests ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
On the left is an Illustration of the displacement of hafnium atoms (white) in the structure of hafnium oxide to accommodate the presence of the self-trapped hole in the oxygen atom (red). On the right is the quantum mechanics view of the probability of finding a hole near certain atoms ...
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