Ultrafast time-resolved laser spectroscopy is a technique that uses the interaction of light with matter to study the properties of physical systems. Researchers can generate laser pulses lasting mere attoseconds -- quintillionths ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 30, 2010
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Spiral galaxy NGC 4921 presently is estimated to be 320 million light years distant.
Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2010
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Sensitive, yet tough. That's nanoDESI. The nanospray Desorption ElectroSpray Ionization technique, a novel method created at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to analyze tiny samples of atmospheric aerosols. This new ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 30, 2010
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Researchers from University of Twente's MIRA research institute and its spin-off business Progentix Orthobiology BV have developed a biomaterial that promotes the formation of bone tissue. It can be used to repair bone tissue ...
Biochemistry
Aug 30, 2010
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One of NASA's orbiting sentinels is expected to return to Earth in a few days. The agency's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation (ICESat) satellite completed a very productive scientific mission earlier this year. NASA lowered ...
Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2010
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In both plant and animal cells, protein activity is often regulated by phosphorylation, by which a phosphate group is added to one or more sites on a protein. A team led by Ken Shirasu of RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, ...
Biotechnology
Aug 30, 2010
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In conventional ferromagnets, the individual magnetic moments of the atoms that together comprise the magnetism of the material are all aligned parallel, pointing in a common direction. In some magnets, quantum-mechanical ...
General Physics
Aug 30, 2010
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(AP) -- For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.
Telecom
Aug 30, 2010
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(AP) -- Scientists reviewing the acclaimed but beleaguered international climate change panel called Monday for major changes in the way it's run, but stopped short of calling for the ouster of the current leader.
Environment
Aug 30, 2010
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Inorganic elements known to be toxic at low concentrations are being discharged to air and water by oilsands mining and processing according to University of Alberta research findings being published this month in one of ...
Environment
Aug 30, 2010
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