Archive: 09/26/2008
Tweezers Trap Nanotubes by Color
Singled-walled carbon nanotubes are graphene sheets wrapped into tubes, and are typically made up of various sizes and with different amounts of twist (also known as chiralities). Each type of nanotube has its own electronic ...
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Toshiba Launches 256GB Solid State Drives with MLC
Toshiba today announced enhancements to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of an industry-leading 256-gigabyte (GB) SSD and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash ...
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Study: Ballplayers use different tactics to repair images
As steroid-use scandals have threatened the reputations of Major League Baseball’s most prominent players during the past several years, those players have used a variety of strategies to repair their images, a new study ...
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Hybrid Nanoparticles Image and Treat Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining a magnetic nanoparticle, a fluorescent quantum dot, and an anticancer drug within a lipid-based nanoparticle, a multi-institutional research team headed by members of the National Cancer Institute’s ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Professors teach robot to 'play ball'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Baseball is elegant in its simplicity. Pitch a ball, hit the ball. Score more runs than your opponent and you win the game.
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Toddlers' focus on mouths rather than on eyes is a predictor of autism severity
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. This abnormality ...
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Neuroscientists Identify Brain Regions Responsible for Warding off Negative Emotion
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of cognitive neuroscientists from Columbia University has identified the brain pathways responsible for the body's emotional defense against gruesome and other aversive forms of imagery. ...
Sep 26, 2008 |
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NASA Stardust Capsule To Go On Display At Smithsonian
(PhysOrg.com) -- Having returned the world's first particles from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the collection of flight icons in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2008 |
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New underwater robot can hover in place
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have designed a new robotic underwater vehicle that can hover in place like a helicopter -- an invaluable tool for deepwater oil explorers, marine archaeologists, oceanographers ...
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Emissions rising faster this decade than last
The latest figures on the global carbon budget to be released in Washington and Paris today indicate a four-fold increase in growth rate of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.
Sep 26, 2008 |
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STERN rocket firing completed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The performance of unpiloted, reuseable spaceplanes could be significantly improved thanks to the completion of the Static Test Expansion/Deflection Rocket Nozzle (STERN) engine test programme.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Researchers identify novel mechanism for regulation of gene expression
The Stowers Institute's Conaway Lab has demonstrated that an enzyme called Uch37 is kept in check when it is part of a human chromatin remodeling complex, INO80. The results were published in today's issue of Molecular Ce ...
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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HICO-RAIDS experiments ready for payload integration
The Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) and the Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS), both developed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), are ready for payload integration following ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2008 |
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NASA's dirty secret: Moon dust
The Apollo Moon missions of 1969-1972 all share a dirty secret. "The major issue the Apollo astronauts pointed out was dust, dust, dust," says Professor Larry Taylor, Director of the Planetary Geosciences ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Toshiba Launches 1.8 inch 250Gb SATA Hard Drive
Toshiba has announced their new MKxx29GSG series 1.8-inch SATA Hard drives, including the 1.8-inch 250GB(MK2529GSG) hard drive, which is the first in the industry.
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