News tagged with instrument size


Surgical Instrument Size Studied

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 25, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The concept of one size fits all works with many things—smocks, baseball caps and inner tubes. But not disposable laparoscopic surgical instruments.





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'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

'Chameleon Guitar' blends old-world and high-tech

Technology / Hi Tech

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited ...


Controlling the size of nanoclusters

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed ...


Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts

Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters — groups of 10 ...


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World's smallest hand-held instrument for detecting health and safety threats

Chemistry /

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers in Indiana are describing development of the world's smallest complete mass spectrometer (MS), a miniature version of a standard lab device — some of which would dominate a living room — to identify ...


Scientists demonstrate the sharpest measurement of ice crystals in clouds

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists have created an instrument designed to help determine the shapes and sizes of tiny ice crystals typical of those found in high-altitude clouds, down to the micron level (comparable to the tiniest cells in the human ...


Better Way to Measure Particle Shape Proves Popular

Better Way to Measure Particle Shape Proves Popular

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tiny particles are pivotal to climate change, public health, and nanotechnology. A significant fraction of these particles are aspherical, yet scientists must routinely assume the particles are spherical to ...


Olfactory bulb size may change as sense of smell changes

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The olfactory bulb in the brain appears to change in size in a way that corresponds to individual alterations in sense of smell, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery.


NASA Satellite Data Show Progress of 2009 Antarctic Ozone Hole

NASA Satellite Data Show Progress of 2009 Antarctic Ozone Hole (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual ozone hole has started developing over the South Pole, and it appears that it will be comparable to ozone depletions over the past decade. This composite image from September 10 ...


NPOESS Satellite

CU-Boulder team to build $34 million instrument package for environmental satellite

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 13, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A $34 million solar instrument package to be built by the University of Colorado at Boulder, considered a crucial tool to help monitor global climate change, has been restored to a U.S. government satellite ...


Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension

Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...



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