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Dutch researchers develop anthrax sensor

Nanotechnologists at University of Twente's MESA+ research institute have developed a sensor that can detect anthrax spores. The invention is more sensitive and efficient than existing detection methods. The ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Ocean warming causes elephant seals to dive deeper

Global warming is having an effect on the dive behaviour and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Innovation promises expanded roles for microsensors

Researchers have learned how to improve the performance of sensors that use tiny vibrating microcantilevers to detect chemical and biological agents for applications from national security to food processing.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away

Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

Classifying solar eruptions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NRL's SoloHI instrument selected for flight on solar orbiter mission

The Naval Research Laboratory's Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), part of the Solar Orbiter mission, is headed for space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the Solar Orbiter mission as the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Latest gadgets give diets, workouts a high-tech boost

The math formula for weight loss isn't hard to understand. There's calorie input and calorie output - what you eat and what you burn. When the energy input is less than the output, you lose weight. But as simple as it looks ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New microtweezers may build tiny 'MEMS' structures

Researchers have created new "microtweezers" capable of manipulating objects to build tiny structures, print coatings to make advanced sensors, and grab and position live stem cell spheres for research.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New sleep apnea device may reduce cost, time required for diagnosis

(Medical Xpress) -- UT Arlington bioengineering researchers have designed an innovative, ultrasonic sensor system that can accurately detect whether a person suffers from sleep apnea without the inconvenience or cost associated ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using Loch Ness to track the tilt of the world

That the rise and fall of the tide is primarily driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and the Sun is common knowledge, but not all tides are controlled by such a standard mechanism.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Data to be a defining tech trend in 2012

The start of this year was marked by a tech industry obsession with where to put growing mountains of information gathered online and by sensors increasingly woven into modern lifestyles.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2


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