Purdue receives $18M nanotechnology grant
Purdue University has received an $18.2 million grant to support U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative computer simulations.
Purdue University has received an $18.2 million grant to support U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative computer simulations.
Nanophysics
Sep 24, 2007
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Baseball had its steroids and Black Sox. Politics lived through Watergate. Wall Street has been riddled with insider trading scandals. And before we cast the first stone, who among us has never tried to get through an intersection ...
Sep 24, 2007
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What caused the extinction of mammoths and the decline of Stone Age people about 13,000 years ago remains hotly debated. Overhunting by Paleoindians, climate change and disease lead the list of probable causes. But an idea ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 24, 2007
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High levels of nutrients used in farming and ranching activities fuel parasite infections that have caused highly publicized frog deformities in ponds and lakes across North America, according to a new study led by the University ...
Sep 24, 2007
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The production of melanin gives us sunburns, but it also helps invertebrate animals to encapsulate attacking fungi and parasites. Uppsala University researchers, in collaboration with Korean and Thai colleagues, can now ...
Sep 24, 2007
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Space flight has been shown to have a profound impact on human physiology as the body adapts to zero gravity environments. Now, a new study led by researchers from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has shown ...
Sep 24, 2007
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Spring-run Chinook salmon and other fish in the rivers of California’s Central Valley could be harmed by more water-storage dams, according to researchers at Duke University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Sep 24, 2007
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Researchers from Duke University and the University of Cambridge think there is a way to determine whether some black holes are not actually black.
General Physics
Sep 24, 2007
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A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish collection and a fish and ...
Sep 24, 2007
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For more than 100 years, scientists have tried to figure out the cell size problem: How does a cell know when it is big enough to divide? In research conducted in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), scientists at Rockefeller ...
Sep 24, 2007
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