News tagged with mirror
Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets ...
Pigs learn to understand mirrors
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of domesticated pigs has found that with just a little experimentation they can find food based only on a reflection in a mirror.
Mirror cast for Mexican 6.5-meter infrared telescope
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With the casting today of a 6.5-meter mirror in Arizona, Mexican and American astronomers have taken the first step toward creation of a major new telescope that will survey infrared objects ...
Molecules wrestle for supremacy in creation of superstructures
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has found how mirror-image molecules gain control over each other and dictate the physical state of superstructures.
Molecules which flip into their own mirror image
May 29, 2009 |
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Catalysts do function, despite the fact that not all the chemical reactions (and partial reactions) which occur are fully understood, including those which take place during the treatment of automobile exhaust. ...
Scientists discover neurons that 'mirror' the attention of others
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2009 |
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Whether a monkey is looking to the left or merely watching another monkey looking that way, the same neurons in his brain are firing, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.
Particle physics study finds new data for extra Z-bosons and potential fifth force of nature
Apr 28, 2009 |
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The Large Hadron Collider is an enormous particle accelerator whose 17-mile tunnel straddles the borders of France and Switzerland. A group of physicists at the University of Nevada, Reno has analyzed data from the accelerator ...
Dutch chemists make new chiral palladium metal
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have succeeded in making the first ever piece of chiral palladium metal. The findings, by a research team led by Gadi Rothenberg, professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable ...
James Webb Space Telescope first flight mirror completes cryogenic testing
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray ...
Holding a mirror up to a gibbon’s mind
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland developmental psychologists have taken a step into our evolutionary past by studying gibbons.
Using math to design amazing mirrors
Jan 18, 2009 |
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Mathematician Andrew Hicks was in his Drexel University office, puzzling over some problem he can no longer recall, when colleague Ron Perline walked in with a challenge. Fresh from his morning bicycle ride, Perline was unhappy ...
Giant Rockets Could Revolutionize Astronomy
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2009 |
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In the game of astronomy, size matters. To get crisp, clear images of things billions of light years away, a telescope needs to be big.
Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues ...
The Incredible Journey of the James Webb Space Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2008 |
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The James Webb Space Telescope, targeted for launch in 2013, is already taking an incredible journey right here on Earth. It's zigzagging up, down, and across the US to be "spit and polished" to perfection ...
Controlling the building blocks of life
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple and reliable method for converting one of the simplest chemical entities into one of the most difficult-to-make molecular building blocks of life, with complete control over its shape, ...
