News tagged with drop
Study investigates craters formed by raindrops (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hiroaki Katsuragi and a team from Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, have been investigating what happens when water drops of various sizes are allowed to fall from a height of 10 to 480 ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Quantum gas in free fall: Physicists produce a Bose-Einstein condensate at zero gravity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A sensitive measuring device must not be dropped - because this usually destroys the precision of the instrument. A team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute of ...
Jun 22, 2010 |
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A Multi-Layered Display with Water Drops (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- AquaLux 3D, a new projection technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, can target light onto and between individual water droplets, enabling text, video and ...
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Computer simulations shed light on the physics of rainbows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at UC San Diego, who set out to simulate all rainbows found in nature, wound up answering questions about the physics of rainbows as well. The scientists recreated a wide ...
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Nasa conducts new parachute test for Orion
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Feb. 29, NASA successfully conducted another drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's entry, descent and landing parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the vehicle's orbital ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Over-the-counter eye drops raise concern over antibiotic resistance
(PhysOrg.com) -- The use of antibiotic eye drops for conjunctivitis has increased by almost half since they became available over the counter at chemists in 2005, data obtained by Oxford University researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Portable diagnostics designed to be shaken, not stirred
As medical researchers and engineers try to shrink diagnostics to fit in a person's pocket, one question is how to easily move and mix small samples of liquid.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 09, 2012 |
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NASA continues Orion parachute testing for future test flight
(Phys.org) -- NASA today successfully conducted a drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's entry, descent and landing parachutes high above the Arizona desert in preparation for the vehicle's orbital flight test, Exploration ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Immunosuppressant medication may be cost-effective for dry eye syndrome
A topical eye emulsion consisting of cyclosporine (a medication used to reduce transplant rejections or to treat arthritis and psoriasis) may be a cost-effective treatment for dry eye syndrome that does not respond to other ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Contact lenses loaded with vitamin E may treat glaucoma
The popular dietary supplement vitamin E, loaded into special medicated contact lenses, can keep glaucoma medicine near the eye — where it can treat that common disease— almost 100 times longer than possible ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Toward simplifying treatment of a serious eye infection
Scientists are reporting development of a potential new way of enabling patients with bacterial keratitis to stick with the extraordinarily intensive treatment needed for this potentially blinding eye infection. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 05, 2010 |
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New glaucoma test allows earlier, more accurate detection
Cumbersome glaucoma tests requiring a visit to the ophthalmologist could soon be history thanks to a home test developed by an engineer at the University of Arizona.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Image: Orion drop test at Langley
Engineers at NASA Langley conducted the third drop test of the Orion test article as part of Phase 1 water impact testing on Nov. 8.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2011 |
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NASA conducts Orion parachute testing for orbital test flight
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA successfully conducted a drop test of the Orion crew vehicle's parachutes high above the Arizona desert Tuesday in preparation for its orbital flight test in 2014. Orion will carry astronauts ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2011 |
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NASA's commercial crew partner Boeing completes parachute test
The Boeing Company successfully completed the second parachute drop test for its Crew Space Transportation (CST) spacecraft Wednesday, part of its effort to develop commercial crew transportation capabilities that could ferry ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 04, 2012 |
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