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Archive: 31/08/2016
Aug 31, 2016
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Turbulence forces emergency landing in Ireland; 12 injured
A United Airlines flight bound for London made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Wednesday after severe turbulence that left 12 passengers needing hospital treatment, officials said.
Development of a novel mass analysis technique that can be performed even with an ordinary business card
A NIMS research team developed a new mass analysis technique that operates under a completely different principle from that of conventional mass analysis techniques.
Shape of 'molecular graphene' determines electronic properties
Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) form an important class of molecules, which can be regarded as small graphene species and which play a prominent role in the development of organic electronics. Scientists at Radboud University, ...
Sabotaging bacteria propellers to stop infections
When looking at bacteria, you typically see also flagella: long hairs that protrudes from the bacteria's body. The key function of the flagella is movement – what scientists call 'motility'. The flagella give the bacteria ...
Magnetism under the magnifying glass
Being able to determine magnetic properties of materials with sub-nanometer precision would greatly simplify development of magnetic nano-structures for future spintronic devices. In an article published in Nature Communications ...
Algorithms offer insight into cellular development
Through RNA sequencing, researchers can measure which genes are expressed in each individual cell of a sample. A new statistical method allows researchers to infer different developmental processes from a cell mixture consisting ...
Where's your data? It's not actually in the cloud, it's sitting in a data centre
Without data centres, today's world stops. Flights are grounded, Wall Street closes, and the internet grinds to a halt. Yet despite their emergence as nerve centres of the global economy, data centres have drawn almost no ...
Two X-ray techniques give a 3-D view of why catalysts used in gasoline production go bad
Merging two powerful 3-D X-ray techniques, a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Utrecht University in the Netherlands revealed new details of a process known as metal ...
Thunderstorms spread mercury pollution
In the southern United States, an afternoon thunderstorm is part of a regular summer day. But new research shows those storms might be doing more than bringing some scary thunder and lightning.
