Cornell University
Nanofluidics sorts DNA for cancer research
(Phys.org) -- Cornell nanotechnology researchers have devised a new tool to study epigenetic changes in DNA that can cause cancer and other diseases: a nanoscale fluidic device that sorts and collects DNA, ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 24, 2012 |
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A robot learns how to tidy up after you
(Phys.org) -- Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes.
May 22, 2012 |
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Researchers uncover how plant skin is assembled
(Phys.org) -- For the first time, scientists have identified how a plant's skin is assembled.
May 22, 2012 |
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Diagnostic labs analyze from bugs to toenails
Found an odd bug in your closet? Rhododendrons inexplicably wilting? Need a toenail analyzed? There's a lab for that.
May 25, 2012 |
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Robots learn to pick up oddly shaped objects
(Phys.org) -- When Cornell engineers developed a new type of robot hand that could pick up oddly shaped objects it presented a challenge: It was easy for a human operator to choose the best place to take h ...
May 09, 2012 |
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Nanocrystal infrared LEDs can be made cheaply
(Phys.org) -- Light-emitting diodes at infrared wavelengths are the magic behind such things as night vision and optical communications, including the streaming data that comes through Netflix. Cornell researchers have advanced ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 10, 2012 |
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Researchers develop food aid decision-making tool
Shipping food to foreign countries may not always be the best response to food crises; sometimes sending cash or procuring goods locally is cheaper, faster and more effective.
May 21, 2012 |
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Researchers demonstrate new way to control nonvolatile magnetic memory devices
(Phys.org) -- Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new strategy for making energy- efficient, reliable nonvolatile magnetic memory devices -- which retain information without electric power.
May 07, 2012 |
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Scientists predict an out-of-this-world kind of ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists are boldly going where no water molecule has gone before -- that is, when it comes to pressures found nowhere on Earth.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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'Tunable' metal nanostructures for fuel cells, batteries and solar energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- For catalysts in fuel cells and electrodes in batteries, engineers would like to manufacture metal films that are porous, to make more surface area available for chemical reactions, and highly ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 03, 2012 |
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Rare particle decay could mean new physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- An incredibly rare sub-atomic particle decay might not be quite as rare as previously predicted, say Cornell researchers. This discovery, culled from a vast data set at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF), ...
Aug 23, 2011 |
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3-D, after-the-fact focus image sensors invented
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the heart of digital photography is a chip called an image sensor that captures a map of the intensity of the light as it comes through the lens and converts it to an electronic signal.
Apr 03, 2012 |
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96 percent of vertebrates -- including humans -- descended from ancestor with sixth sense
(PhysOrg.com) -- People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Cornell releases two new raspberry varieties
With its two newest raspberry releases, Big Red is going gold and crimson. Double Gold and Crimson Night offer small-scale growers and home gardeners showy, flavorful raspberries on vigorous, disease resistant ...
May 01, 2012 |
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Astronomers identify three extrasolar planets
(Phys.org) -- It's not little green men, but it could be a step in that direction: Cornell astronomers, using data from the NASA Kepler Mission, have identified three Earthlike planets orbiting their own suns, all of which ...
Apr 26, 2012 |
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