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Prototype hand-held drug testing device launched

The world's first prototype of a hand-held fingerprint drug testing device has been created by UK technology company Intelligent Fingerprinting.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Autism finding could lead to simple urine test for the condition

Children with autism have a different chemical fingerprint in their urine than non-autistic children, according to new research published tomorrow in the print edition of the Journal of Proteome Research.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests... including 100s of builders' thumbs

Technology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world's two ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1




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Chemical fingerprinting tracks the travels of little brown bats

They're tiny creatures with glossy, chocolate-brown hair, out-sized ears and wings. They gobble mosquitoes and other insect pests during the summer and hibernate in caves and mines when the weather turns cold. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Food, water safety provide new challenges for today's sensors

Sensors that work flawlessly in laboratory settings may stumble when it comes to performing in real-world conditions, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Technology / Engineering

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finding fingerprints in sea level rise

It was used to help Apollo astronauts navigate in space, and has since been applied to problems as diverse as economics and weather forecasting, but Harvard scientists are now using a powerful statistical tool to not only ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Hubble to use moon as mirror to see Venus transit

This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our moon. Astronomers didn't aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study Tycho, however. The image was taken ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Splatters of molten rock signal period of intense asteroid impacts on Earth

New research reveals that the Archean era — a formative time for early life from 3.8 billion years ago to 2.5 billion years ago — experienced far more major asteroid impacts than had been previously ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Devising a 'silver bullet' for measuring water use by plants

(Phys.org) -- Most gardeners can tell by rule of thumb how much water their tomatoes and carrots need, but taking an accurate reading of plants' actual water use is a very difficult problem.   Although ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Geophysicists employ novel method to identify sources of global sea level rise

As the Earth's climate warms, a melting ice sheet produces a distinct and highly non-uniform pattern of sea-level change, with sea level falling close to the melting ice sheet and rising progressively farther away. The pattern ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 54 | with audio podcast

On the safe side: Contact-free analysis of chemical substances

Is it drugs, medicines or explosives? At the Analytica trade fair, German researchers are presenting a terahertz spectrometer that provides reliable, contact-free identification of substances.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Southern sea levels rise drastically

(Phys.org) -- Sea levels have risen about 20cm in the South West Pacific since the late 19th century, a new scientific study shows.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Fingerprints tell all: Progress in fingerprint analysis

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been well established that fingerprints can be used to identify people or help convict them of crimes. Things have gone a lot further now: fingerprints can be used to show that ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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