News tagged with test system
India announces long-range nuclear-capable missile test
India will test a nuclear-capable missile with a range of over 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) within a year, its top military scientist said Wednesday, risking a rise in regional tensions.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2010 |
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Physicians' moods affect quality of care: study
A new study by a researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) reveals that physicians' moods impact the number of prescriptions, referrals and lab tests ordered, as well as the amount of time they spend talking ...
Jan 11, 2010 |
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NASA Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Study Cosmos
(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Breakthrough on causes of inflammatory bowel disease
New research by the University of Adelaide could help explain why some people are more prone to Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and other autoimmune diseases.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Fit teenage boys are smarter, but muscle strength isn't the secret
In the first study to demonstrate a clear positive association between adolescent fitness and adult cognitive performance, Nancy Pedersen of the University of Southern California and colleagues in Sweden find that better ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Genome advances promise personalized medical treatment
A whirlwind of activity is under way to apply the findings of the $3 billion Human Genome Project to improve health care in the United States and around the world.
Nov 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Rensselaer researchers to develop and test next-generation radar systems
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have received a grant for $792,000 from the U.S. Air Force to create a new laboratory for developing and testing next-generation radar systems that overcome ...
Sep 30, 2009 |
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FDA approves new HIV test from Abbott Laboratories
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test from Abbott Laboratories that detects both types of the virus that causes AIDS.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 18, 2009 |
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NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield
A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Study: 1918 flu survivors seem immune to swine flu
(AP) -- The way swine flu multiplies in the respiratory system is more severe than ordinary winter flu, a new study in animals finds.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Researcher looking for nano environmental footprint
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta biological sciences professor Gregg Goss is on the front line of a new effort to monitor the effects of nanomaterials on the environment.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 08, 2009 |
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A new test for a deadly fungal infection in patients with damaged immune systems
A quicker, cheaper and more accurate test for deadly Aspergillus fumigatus fungal infections in patients with damaged or suppressed immune systems was described today, (Thursday 2 April) at the Society for General Microb ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
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A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam
(PhysOrg.com) -- Commissioning has begun at the Japan-based Accelerator Test Facility 2, a major technology test bed for future accelerators, including the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC. During ...
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Ares Super-chute
NASA and U.S. Air Force test pilots have just dropped a 50,000-pound "dummy" rocket booster on the Arizona desert--and stopped it before it crashed. It's all part of NASA's plan to return to the Moon.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2009 |
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