News tagged with laboratory
Los Alamos researchers create 'map of science'
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science—a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve ...
World's largest laser gears up for ignition experiments
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest and highest-energy laser system, was essentially completed on Feb. 26, when technicians at Lawrence Livermore National ...
Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have observed particle collisions that produce single top quarks. The discovery ...
A new way to assemble cells into 3-D microtissues
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory can now control how cells connect with one another in vitro and assemble themselves into three-dimensional, multicellular ...
Mars Orbiter Resumes Normal Science Operations
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer re-set last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars.
Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics
Mar 03, 2009 |
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As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...
Scientists discover mobile small RNAs that set up leaf patterning in plants
Mar 01, 2009 |
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A key item in the developmental agenda of a plant leaf is the establishment of an axis that makes a leaf's top half distinct from its bottom half. This asymmetry is crucial for the leaf's function: it ensures that the leaf ...
Mars Orbiter Puts Itself into Precautionary Mode
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its computer Monday morning, Feb. 23, and put itself into a limited-activity mode that is an automated safety response.
Study Finds 'Pre-Existing Condition' Fueled Killer Cyclone
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A "pre-existing condition" in the North Indian Ocean stoked the sudden intensification of last year's Tropical Cyclone Nargis just before its devastating landfall in Burma, according to a ...
Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical- and magnetic- ...
LLNL signs agreement with Siemens to improve wind energy efficiency
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy Inc. to provide high-resolution atmospheric modeling capabilities to improve the efficiency of wind farm sites, turbine design and wind farm ...
Researchers identify gene that helps plant cells keep communication channels open
Biology /
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Plant cells communicate via microscopic channels called plasmodesmata that are embedded in their cell walls. For the stem cells in the plants' growing tips, called "meristems," the plasmodesmata are lifelines, allowing nutrients ...
Nanoparticle toxicity doesn't get wacky at the smallest sizes
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The smallest nano-sized silica particles used in biomedicine and engineering likely won't cause unexpected biological responses due to their size, according to work presented today. The result should allay ...
Neural modeling helps expose epilepsy's triggers
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A brain scan of a person experiencing an epileptic seizure looks like the Great Plains during an early evening in midsummer. Fierce electrical storms pop up seemingly at random, proliferate ...
