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Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers say Spiroplasma's propulsion style is optimal for converting energy into motion.
Research in aircraft control systems and robotics helps improve flight safety
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At first blush, it may not seem like robots and aircraft control systems have anything in common. When you put them together, however, you arrive at the core of Guangjun Liu’s unique research ...
Supermarket robot to help the elderly (w/ Video)
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Robovie-II, a retail-assistant robot designed to help elderly and disabled people shop in supermarkets, is being tested in Kyoto, in Japan.
Glowing channels: Microanalysis system for rapid mercury detection
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Water contaminated with mercury is very dangerous for both people and the environment, as mercury is one of the most toxic heavy metals. Though laboratory analyses do deliver precise quantitative measurements, ...
Taiwan unveils super-tiny microchip
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones, researchers and observers said Wednesday.
Australian fossil unlocks secrets to the origin of whales
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
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Museum Victoria palaeobiologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald has made new groundbreaking discoveries into the origin of baleen whales, based on a 25 million year old fossil found near Torquay in Victoria.
Tiny nano-electromagnets turn a cloak of invisibility into a possibility
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A team of researchers at the FOM institute AMOLF (The Netherlands) has succeeded for the first time in powering an energy transfer between nano-electromagnets with the magnetic field of light.
MO-SCI to manufacture SRNL's unique porous walled hollow glass microspheres
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 17, 2009 |
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A licensing agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and specialty glass provider Mo-Sci Corporation will make SRNL's unique Porous Walled Hollow Glass Microspheres available ...
Scientists study hummingbirds flight to develop self-propelled surveillance devices
Dec 16, 2009 |
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The secret to the flight of the hummingbird and other tiny birds and insects lies in the looping, swirling flow of air, called a vortex, that their flapping wings create.
Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like a tightly wound drum, red blood cells are in perpetual vibration. Those vibrations help the cells maintain their characteristic flattened oval or disc shape, which is critical to ...
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