News tagged with laboratory
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 ...
Type of vitamin B1 could treat common cause of blindness
Apr 23, 2009 |
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University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that a form of vitamin B1 could become a new and effective treatment for one of the world's leading causes of blindness.
Mars explorer says we'll find life on other planets within 10 years
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Within 10 years, we'll find life outside Earth -- that's the prediction of Peter Smith, the University of Arizona professor who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission.
Jet lag disturbs sleep by upsetting internal clocks in 2 neural centers
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Jet lag is the bane of many travelers, and similar fatigue can plague people who work in rotating shifts. Scientists know the problem results from disruption to the body's normal rhythms and are getting closer to a better ...
US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Astronauts' meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the Moon.
ALCF working to get more science per watt
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P—called Intrepid—at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. ...
Mars rover Spirit has unexplained computer reboots
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA's aging Mars rover Spirit has rebooted its computer at least twice for unknown reasons.
Argonne cloud computing helps scientists run high energy physics experiments
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds." The ...
One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...
