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Researcher shows proteins have controlled motions
Biology /
Aug 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University researcher Robert Jernigan believes that his research shows proteins have controlled motions. Most biochemists traditionally believe proteins have many random, uncontrolled movements.
Scientists invent 1.2nm molecular gear
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Scientists from A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), led by Professor Christian Joachim, have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular gear ...
Ski Robot Could Decipher the Art of Skiing
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Watching an Olympic skier perform a downhill slalom, turning smoothly around the flags, makes the sport seem just as much an art as a science. Although advanced skiers know how to turn effectively, ...
Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Sugar-frosting isn’t just for livening up boring bran flakes; it can also preserve important therapeutic proteins. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a fast, inexpensive and effective ...
New robots mimic fish's swimming (w/ Video)
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast.
Bridges will rock -- safely -- with new quake design
May 09, 2007 |
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Bridges that "dance" during earthquakes could be the safest and least expensive to build, retrofit and repair, according to earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER.
Engineers building robotic fin for submarines
Jul 30, 2007 |
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Inspired by the efficient swimming motion of the bluegill sunfish, MIT researchers are building a mechanical fin that could one day propel robotic submarines.
To swim or to crawl: For the worm it's a no brainer (w/Video)
Mar 31, 2009 |
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A study at the University of Leeds has shown, for the first time, that C. elegans worms crawl and swim using the same gait, overturning the widely accepted belief that these two behaviours are completely different.
German high-school students involved in an astronomical research project
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2009 |
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This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes a somewhat unusual research article because it is co-authored by German high-school students. Led by astronomer Klaus Beuermann (University of Göttingen, Germany), the team i ...
Gold, DNA Combination May Lead To Nano-Sensor
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 01, 2008 |
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The ability to use genetic material to assemble nanoscopic particles of gold could be an important step toward creating tiny “spies” that will be able to infiltrate individual cells and report back in real time on the cell’s ...
One step at a time: Motor molecules use random walks to make deliveries in living cells
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Cells rely on tiny molecular motors to deliver cargo, such as mRNA and organelles, within the cell. The critical nature of this transport system is evidenced by the fact that disruption of motors by genetic defects leads ...
Ultrafast electron microscopy reveals switchable nanochannels in materials
Mar 05, 2008 |
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Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close—on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises”, as they report ...
NASA approves space mission to unlock the secrets of magnetic reconnection
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 03, 2007 |
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NASA has stepped up to the challenge of an NRC study by defining a four-spacecraft constellation that will probe known magnetic reconnection sites with the highest-resolution charged particle, electric field and magnetic ...
Nanoswitches Toggled by Light
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close—on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises”, as they report ...
'Tornadoes' are transferred from light to sodium atoms
Nov 09, 2006 |
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For the first time, tornado-like rotational motions have been transferred from light to atoms in a controlled way at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The new quantum physics technique can ...
