News tagged with lab
Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier
Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Chemists see first building blocks to life on Earth
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed an experiment that sheds new and fascinating light on how life on Earth might have begun.
May 13, 2009 |
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Engineer invents world's smallest, lightest telemedicine microscope
Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his work a step further -- or tinier: The UCLA engineer ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Bionanotechnology has new face, world-class future
Imagine the marriage of hard metals or semiconductors to soft organic or biological products. Picture the strange, wonderful offspring -- hybrid materials never conceived by Mother Nature.
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Firm unveils X-rated robot (Update)
Roxxxy the sex robot had a coming out party Saturday in Sin City.
Jan 09, 2010 |
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New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once
(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Aug 03, 2009 |
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MIT's Huggable Robot Teddy Enhances Human Relationships
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's probably the most sophisticated teddy bear ever designed, but that doesn't stop MIT's companion robot called "the Huggable" from being pretty adorable, as well. The Huggable is the latest ...
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Paper medical lab the size of a fingerprint (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard University chemistry professor is aiming to produce a blood analyzer for the developing world that will be the size of a human fingerprint, and will cost around a penny.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips
(PhysOrg.com) -- What started out as 'blue-sky' thinking by a group of European researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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LEGO toy helps researchers learn what happens on nanoscale
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
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The strange attraction of Gale crater
Curiosity is about to go to Mars. The car-sized rover, also known as the Mars Science Lab, is scheduled for launch in late November or early December 2011 from the Kennedy Space Center. After an eight-month ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once
Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 27, 2009 |
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New blood analysis chip could lead to disease diagnosis in minutes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A major milestone in microfluidics could soon lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes. The device, developed by an international team of researchers ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Bird ranges shift north, but not as fast as climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- As warmer winter temperatures become more common, one way for some animals to adjust is to shift their ranges northward. But a new study of 59 North American bird species indicates that doing ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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New lab-on-chip advance uses low-cost, disposable paper strips
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have invented a technique that uses inexpensive paper to make "microfluidic" devices for rapid medical diagnostics and chemical analysis.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 25, 2011 |
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