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Sep 2 | News
A “game-changing” technique using near infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights against cancer and many other diseases. University of Central Florida chemists used near infrared light and fluorescent dye to take pictures of cells and tumors deep within tissue.
Sep 2 | News
Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company. Using inexpensive, off-the-shelf telecommunications fiber optics, sturdy and portable "mid-infrared supercontinuum lasers" are being developed that could blind heat-seeking weapons from a distance of 1.8 milles away.
Sep 2 | News
In a world where doctors can treat the most devastating illnesses, the common cold remains elusive. That's because up until recently, scientists knew little about the viruses that spread this seasonal nuisance. But that may be changing now that researchers have mapped one virus's atomic structure using the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the Argonne National Laboratory.
Sep 2 | News
A MIT team has developed a new way to attach phosphorus to organic compounds by first splitting the phosphorus with ultraviolet light. Their method eliminates the need for chlorine, which is usually required for such reactions and poses health risks to workers handling the chemicals.
Sep 1 | News
String theory was originally developed to describe the fundamental
particles
and forces that make up our universe. New research, led by a team from
Imperial
College London, describes the unexpected discovery that string
theory also
seems to predict the behavior of entangled quantum particles. As this
prediction can be tested in the laboratory, researchers can now test
string
theory.
Sep 1 | News
Purdue
University researchers
have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might
use
arrays of microneedles to deliver a wider range of medications than now
possible with conventional patches.
Sep 1 | News
Many engineering disciplines rely on supercomputers to simulate complicated physical phenomena. Now, researchers at MIT have developed software that can perform such simulations on an ordinary smart phone. Although the current version of the software is for demonstration purposes, the work could lead to applications that let engineers perform complicated calculations in the field and to better control systems for vehicles or robotic systems.
Sep 1 | News
In a counter-intuitive finding, new research from North Carolina State
University shows that a species of shellfish widely consumed in the
Pacific
over the past 3,000 years has actually increased in size, despite—and
possibly
because of—increased human activity in the area.
Aug 31 | News
Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory
chips
that use only silicon in a
way that should be easily adaptable to nanoelectronic manufacturing
techniques
and promises to extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore's
Law.
Aug 31 | News
The DNA code of the Golden Delicious apple has been sequenced for the first time by a global team of 86 scientists from Italy, France, New Zealand, Belgium, and the United States. The breakthrough could help agricultural scientists selectively breed new apple varieties that have desired traits and that are more resistant to disease and drought.