News tagged with microscopic observations
Special Nanotubes May Be Used as a Vehicle for Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have demonstrated that magnetic nanotubes combined with nerve growth factor can enable specific cells to differentiate into ...
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Opportunity Puts The Arm On Ted
Jan 10, 2006 |
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The rover team has kept Opportunity productive while engineers continue to evaluate the best posture for carrying the robotic arm when the rover resumes driving.
Opportunity Completes Atmospheric Science Campaign At Erebus
Dec 20, 2005 |
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Opportunity successfully deployed its robotic arm on sol 671 (Dec. 13, 2005) and used it to position the microscopic imager. The cause of a shoulder-joint motor stall during an attempt to deploy the arm on ...
Astronomers find grains of sand around distant stars
Mar 12, 2008 |
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In a find that sheds light on how Earth-like planets may form, astronomers this week reported finding the first evidence of small, sandy particles orbiting a newborn solar system at about the same distance as the Earth orbits ...
Nitrogen fixation and phytoplankton blooms in the southwest Indian Ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Observations made by Southampton scientists help understand the massive blooms of microscopic marine algae - phytoplankton - in the seas around Madagascar and its effect on the biogeochemistry of the southwest Indian Ocean.
Opportunity Rover Inspecting 'Bellemont'
Feb 26, 2006 |
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Opportunity has completed its work on the "Olympia" outcrop. This week's activities included a Moessbauer spectrometer integration on target "Rough Rider," an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer integration on ...
Martian Skies Brighten Slightly
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 08, 2007 |
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Slight clearing of still-dusty Martian skies has improved the energy situation for both Spirit and Opportunity, allowing controllers to increase the rovers' science observations. Spirit is even being commanded ...
Playing Pinball with Atoms
Oct 06, 2008 |
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With nanotechnology yielding a burgeoning menagerie of microscopic pumps, motors, and other machines for potential use in medicine and industry, here is one good question: How will humans turn those devices ...
Tiny carbon nanotubes show big germ-fighting potential
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 03, 2007 |
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In nanoscience’s version of a David-and-Goliath story, scientists in Connecticut are reporting the first direct evidence that carbon nanotubes have powerful antimicrobial activity, a discovery that could help fight the growing ...
Microscopic version of the CT scan reveals secrets of bone formation
Sep 29, 2008 |
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A new version of the computerized tomography (CT) scan, which revolutionized medical imaging during the last 25 years, is giving scientists precious new information about how Mother Nature forms shells, bones, ...
ETH crystallographers explain seismic anisotropy of Earth's D-layer
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2006 |
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ETH Zürich researchers discovered a very unusual mechanism of plastic deformation in the Earth's mantle. Furthermore, they have predicted a new family of mantle minerals. These discoveries shed new light on ...
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