(PhysOrg.com) -- With both presidential candidates vowing to ease federal funding restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and important scientific advances reported widely in the media, a new University of Michigan study ...
Oct 20, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An engineer at the University of Manchester has developed a prototype scanner that could be used to detect explosives and weapons hidden in the shoes of travellers.
Engineering
Oct 20, 2008
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Rutgers physical oceanographer Scott Glenn and his students are flying a submersible robot glider, the Scarlet Knight, across the Atlantic – very slowly, underwater, and without getting wet.
Engineering
Oct 20, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chloride levels in central Ohio’s Big Darby Creek were three times higher in 2007 than the levels recorded in the late 1960s, and have more than doubled since 1992, according to an analysis conducted at ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a dividing cell duplicates its genetic material, a molecular machine called a sliding clamp travels along the DNA double helix, tethering the proteins that perform the replication. Researchers from the ...
Oct 20, 2008
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced the development of a compact and low cost speed sensor technology for motor vehicles which provides accurate measurement of relative velocity using an mm–wave radar (77GHz band). The technology enables ...
Engineering
Oct 20, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even though the Cretaceous Period ended more than 65 million years ago, clues remain about how the ocean water circulated at that time. Measuring a chemical tracer in samples of ancient fish scales, bones ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008
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India’s first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1, is scheduled to take off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the south-eastern coast of India on Wednesday, October 22nd, at 3.00 CEST. The German science and technology ...
Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Feathers of the flightless kakapo are being flown around the world as part of a Massey biologist’s quest to understand the role of the critically endangered native parrot’s sense of smell and the power ...
Oct 20, 2008
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Using space-based technology developed during ESA's gravity mission studies, a novel gradiometer is being developed by a UK-based company to help oil and gas companies find the most appropriate locations to drill wells and ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008
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