Biodiesel algae: Starvation diets damage health
It may be better to tolerate lower oil content in algae grown for biodiesel to boost growth and overall productivity, says research from the University of Sheffield.
Biotechnology
Mar 11, 2013
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News tagged with centrifugation
NASA to deliver commercial research equipment to station
NASA, Astrium Space Transportation and NanoRacks LLC are teaming up to expand the research capability of the International Space Station through delivery of a small commercial centrifuge facility that will conduct molecular ...
Space Exploration
Feb 16, 2012
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SwRI suborbital payload specialists move to flight planning phase, release mission patch
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced in February that it had contracted multiple suborbital flights for its own astronaut payload specialists as part of a larger effort to promote the development of commercial human ...
Space Exploration
Jul 25, 2011
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Three's a crowd with arrival of new centrifuge
The University of Western Australia is now home to the only geotechnical modelling facility in the world that operates three centrifuges.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 13, 2016
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Researchers develop new method to count DNA molecules in just 30 minutes
A team of scientists including PhD student Friedrich Schuler from the Laboratory of MEMS Applications at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg has developed a method for dividing ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 25, 2015
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PhD student develops spinning heat shield for future spacecraft
A University of Manchester Ph.D. student has developed a prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft that could reduce the cost of space travel and even aid future space missions to Mars.
Space Exploration
Aug 9, 2018
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Commercial-scale test of new technology to recover coal from sludge successful
A new technology for removing water from ultrafine coal slurry has been successfully tested at the commercial scale at an operating coal cleaning plant. The technology offers the possibility of reducing the coal slurry impoundment ...
Engineering
Sep 15, 2010
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How did Dimorphos form?
The otherwise unremarkable double asteroid of Didymos and Dimorphos made headlines as the target of NASA's successful Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission. With new details about the system emerging, astronomers have ...
Astronomy
Jan 17, 2023
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Study shows exoskeletons of insects become stronger when raised under higher mechanical load
Scientists from the Hochschule Bremen (HSB)—City University of Applied Sciences used a centrifuge to show that the exoskeletons of insects become stronger when they are raised under higher mechanical load. This fundamental ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2023
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SwRI flyers first to evaluate pressure suits during simulated suborbital launches in centrifuge
Two researchers set to fly aboard suborbital spacecraft as a part of Southwest Research Institute's next-generation suborbital research program completed another milestone last week when they evaluated commercial spaceflight ...
Space Exploration
Nov 9, 2011
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