News tagged with scientific advancements
Data mining deep space
Bahram Mobasher, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, has received a two-year $200,000 grant from NASA to compile into a data bank all the imaging observations of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Zeroing in on more powerful enzymes for degrading persistent pollutants
For the first time, researchers have identified two important strategies for optimizing the effects of the enzymes involved in degrading persistent pollutants such as PCBs. These scientific advances, achieved by Professor ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Space shuttle's legacy: Soaring in orbit and costs
(AP) -- The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Team calculates the role of buried layers in few-layer epitaxial graphene
A CNST-led collaboration with the University of Maryland and the University of Texas has computed how electrostatic interactions between electrons in different layers of few-layer graphene affect the properties ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Battling addictions with engineering algorithms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemical engineers are responsible for numerous scientific advances, ranging from affordable pharmaceuticals and super-strong synthetic fibers to environmental cleanup and recycling technologies. ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Iran tech expo sends defiant message to West
(AP) -- An Iranian supercomputer. New space rockets and satellites carrying the flag of the Islamic Republic. Biotech innovations that include artificial tendons.
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Fixing the economy the scientific way
Here are two facts that might seem unrelated: (1) Most Americans cannot name a living scientist. (2) Over the last two years, by far the most pressing problems in the country have been the economy and the cost of health ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Controlling catalysts: Expert discusses new ways to drive old reactions
Like chefs in a culinary competition, catalysts must avoid distractions to quickly turn feedstock into desired products. At the University of Virginia, Professor T. Brent Gunnoe and his team are designing ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Citizen scientist: Helping scientists help themselves
We are all scientists now, thanks to SETI@home, Galaxy Zoo, The Great Sunflower Project, Folding@home and counltess other projects that allow individuals to take part in scientific research directly or indirectly. In the ...
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Barack Obama Announces Another $1.2 billion for Energy R&D
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more interesting areas of technological development in the coming years is likely to be energy development -- specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 24, 2009 |
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