News tagged with laboratory
Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Winter images of NASA's Phoenix Lander showing the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars have been captured with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE camera, aboard ...
Researchers to model the life cycles of successful virtual teams
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Each year, hundreds of scientists from all over the world come to the Florida State University campus to conduct research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Starting in January, the researchers themselves will ...
Mobile lab allows researchers to study air quality, health effects
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new mobile air research laboratory will help a team of researchers led by a Michigan State University professor better understand the damaging health effects of air pollution and why certain ...
Medicinal products susceptible to 'dose dumping' should be fully tested
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Controlled release pills and capsules that show a tendency in the standard laboratory test toward "dose dumping" — releasing their medicine in a faster and potentially unsafe manner in patients who have consumed ...
Biosphere 2 Opens Phoenix Mars Lander Exhibit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A full-size model Phoenix Lander has landed at Biosphere 2 before it heads, ultimately, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C
Solving the Mystery of IgE
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Immunoglobulin E (IgE) is the main actor in the drama of allergy. The biological role of IgE in the immune response of an organism and the lack of control leading to allergy is the research topic of Gernot Achatz, Molekular ...
Prototype Method Detects and Measures Elusive Hazards
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has demonstrated a relatively simple, inexpensive method for detecting and measuring elusive hazards such as concealed explosives ...
H1N1 pandemic virus does not mutate into 'superbug' in new lab study
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A laboratory study by University of Maryland researchers suggests that some of the worst fears about a virulent H1N1 pandemic flu season may not be realized this year, but does demonstrate ...
Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...
Making global science networking more user-friendly
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Scientists working collaboratively, at the same time, but in different locations around the world, can now do so thanks to ultra-high-speed, broadband networks and special software developed as part of a National Science ...
Ripe pineapple and delicious pork
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Customers want fresh food, which is neither unripe nor spoiled. A new system based on metal oxide sensors could check the safety and quality of foods reliably, quickly and economically -- such as how ripe ...
Going net zero -- for effect; special home will produce as much energy as it uses
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Michael Yannell's ComEd bill is almost surely less than yours. Yannell, 44, lives in a new Chicago home that is designed to be net zero energy, which means it will produce as much energy than it consumes -- or more. The $1.6 ...
First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In late April 2009, a team of MBARI researchers tested the world's only deep-sea robotic DNA lab beneath the waters of Monterey Bay.
European-built Node 3 starts its journey to the ISS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 04, 2009 |
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The European-built Node 3 module for the International Space Station will be shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 17 May.
Spirit Resumes Driving While Analysis of Problem Behaviors Continues
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove on Thursday for the first time since April 8, acting on commands from engineers who are still investigating bouts of amnesia and other unusual behavior ...
