Taiwan will employ mobile radars and a network of satellites to improve predictions of typhoons, floods and other extreme weather phenomena, an official said Wednesday.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Aug 17, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 1

Using an ultrafast femtosecond laser, researchers at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., were able to label, draw patterns on, and remove individual melanocytes cells from a species of frog tadpole (Xenopus) without damaging ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

In a few years a NASA spacecraft will seek the building blocks of life in a shovelful of asteroid dirt. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, targeted for launch in September 2016, will intercept asteroid 1999 RQ36, orbit it for a year, ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 0

Researchers are able to achieve extremely high-resolution microscopy through a process known as stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. This cutting-edge imaging system has pushed the performance of microscopes significantly ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Naval Research Laboratory and the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) through the support of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), has shown an autonomous multi-sensor motion-tracking and interrogation system ...

Technology - Engineering

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

In an advance in understanding Mother Nature's copy machines, motors, assembly lines and other biological nano-machines, scientists are describing how a multipurpose protein on the tail of a virus bores into ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

Despite growing evidence that biofuels may not be the cure-all once envisioned, many countries are still rushing headlong with biofuels development policies that experts say are having negative as well as positive impacts ...

Chemistry - Other

Aug 17, 2011 4.5 / 5 (2) 2

A new study by Simon Fraser University’s Ryan Allen shows one in 10 deaths in Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar can be attributed to air pollution. His research, in collaboration with colleagues in Ulaanbaatar, ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

China’s space program is in the news again, this time with unconfirmed reports that the Tiangong 1 space lab may be launching into orbit sometime this year – possibly later this month.  Previous ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 17, 2011 4.3 / 5 (4) 1

The continuing increase in the level of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" in the Earth's atmosphere has been identified as a cause for serious concern because it may radically accelerate changes in the Earth's climate. ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 2

NASA’s groundbreaking Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) will reach a key milestone in September when the International Space Station (ISS) robots transfer the module to its permanent home on space station’s ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 17, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

Toucans in the tropics disperse nutmegs the furthest in the morning, according to research by Wageningen UR ecologist Patrick Jansen.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 17, 2011 not rated yet 0

A team of researchers from four Boston-area institutions led by Nicusor Iftimia from Physical Sciences, Inc. has demonstrated for the first time that optical coherence tomography (OCT), a high resolution optical ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Aug 17, 2011 4 / 5 (2) 0

It has five times the tensile strength of steel and is stronger then even the best currently available synthetic fibers: Spider thread. German scientists of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and the Universitaet Bayreuth ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Aug 17, 2011 4.8 / 5 (4) 3

Whenever crisis threatens the financial markets, voices are loud in calling for greater control. It is dubious, however, whether tighter regulation would actually offer investors better protection against losing their capital. ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Aug 17, 2011 3.5 / 5 (4) 1