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Laser Mapping Aids Geologists

Next generation digital maps are laser sharp

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Restoring habitat for spawning species of fish, such as Atlantic salmon, starts with a geological inventory of suitable rivers and streams, and the watershed systems that support them. But the high-tech mapping ...





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Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

cylinders of carbon about a nanometer in diameter -- have been highly touted for potential applications such as ultrastrong fibers, electrical wires in molecular devices, or hydrogen storage components for ...


Selling chip makers on optical computing

Selling chip makers on optical computing

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...


Study reveals a 'missing link' in immune response to disease

Study reveals a 'missing link' in immune response to disease (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The immune system's T cells have the unique responsibilities of being both jury and executioner. They examine other cells for signs of disease, including cancers or infections, and, if such evidence is found, ...


Geologists monitor landslide in Washington state for further movement

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

It's hard to picture a bigger landslide than the one that buried a quarter-mile of Highway 410 in Yakima County, Wash., in mid-October.


Scientists build first 'frequency comb' to display visible 'teeth'

Scientists Build First 'Frequency Comb' To Display Visible 'Teeth'

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. ...


Research continues on secure, mobile, quantum communications

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater.


Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology

Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking ...


Hyper-SAGE boosts remote MRI sensitivity

Hyper-SAGE boosts remote MRI sensitivity

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new technique in Magnetic Resonance Imaging dubbed "Hyper-SAGE" has the potential to detect ultra low concentrations of clincal targets, such as lung and other cancers. Development of Hyper-SAGE was led ...


3 Americans share 2009 Nobel Prize in physics (AP)

'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering "masters of light" work on fibre optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.


Holographic Disk

GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.



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