Recent tests by researchers at NIST will provide much needed, independent data on how electromagnetic radiation penetrates aircraft, helping to ensure continued air travel safety.
In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at NIST have developed a new, highly sensitive, low-cost technique for measuring light in the near-infrared range.
A new analysis of 20 years of data contradicts previously published claims that U.S. pharma companies are better innovators than their European counterparts, and questions whether Americans actually benefit from the higher U.S. prices for many prescription medications.
New research on marine viruses could change calculations of how energy is generated in the oceans, and might someday inspire new designs for better batteries and other photoelectric energy sources.
Implementation of REACH legislation may require 54 million research animals and €9.5 billion ($13.4 billion) over the next 10 years, which represents 20 times the number of animals and six times the cost anticipated in previous estimates, according to an analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Currently, the EU uses approximately 900,000 animals at a cost of €600 million ($847 million) per year to evaluate new chemicals.
UMass Amherst biologists used a technique they call multi-gene silencing to, for the first time, silence nine genes at once in a multicellular organism. This allowed them to discover how root hairs and pollen tubes recognize their growing tip and illuminate a process found in all seed plants.
The century-old challenge of storing and transporting acetylene safely may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at NIST.
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children’s toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to re-create microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more easily observe.
Determining a specific crop cultivar is an important decision for a farmer to make, and involves careful consideration of the relationship between the environment and the needs of a particular genotype. A new study reconsiders a statistical model that has become an industry standard in studying this relationship.
Virginia Tech’s Space@VT research group will build a chain of space weather instrument stations in Antarctica. Space weather affects a variety of everyday consumer technologies including global positioning systems (GPS), satellites for television reception, and cellular phones. Also, the understanding of space weather is critical to space programs.
As part of study, SBU investigators will analyze fibrillation onset in cardiac tissue
A student mathematics activist from the University of Chicago will share his concerns about the future of mathematics education during a National Science Foundation panel discussion on the next generation of science and technology innovators.
A UCLA researcher concludes that sleep's primary function is to increase animals' efficiency and minimize their risk by regulating the duration and timing of their behavior.
A new article featured in Soil Survey Horizons details research behind the new ArcGIS geodatabase software, used to develop the Remote Area Soil Proxy modeling technique to predict natural occurrence of soils in remote areas. This technology will be key to overcoming large investments in time and resources for the study of soil formations and distribution under their natural conditions.
Researchers led by a University of Washington chemist have found a way to train tiny semiconductor crystals, called nanocrystals or quantum dots, to display new magnetic functions at room temperature using light as a trigger.
Douglas Feinstein, research professor of anesthesiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, has received a Research Career Scientist Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Success in cellular fusion — as occurs at the moment of conception and when nerve cells exchange neurotransmitters — requires that a membrane be bent before the merging process can begin, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have shown.
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is building on its core mission to invest in knowledge, people, products and infrastructure that positively impact societal quality of life by approving a grant for a collaborative project with Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), a nonprofit humanitarian organization that partners with developing communities worldwide to improve their quality of life.
New technique expected to enhance understanding of how cancer spreads .
One of the world’s leading figures in collaborative public art, University of Alabama in Huntsville Professor Jennifer Marsh, announced a global collaborative project using 8,000 panels to wrap around one of America’s 20th-century icons – the Saturn V Moon Rocket.
An innovative new spout developed by the University of Vermont for the maple industry will increase production by up to 90 percent, by preventing a tree's tap hole from becoming contaminated with bacteria. It will also mitigate the effects of global warming, which is shortening the sugaring season.
While exercise is a critical part of maintaining elephants’ health in captivity, Michael Rowe runs with them in pursuit of science. Rowe is working toward his doctorate in biology at Indiana State University by researching how juvenile and adult Asian and African elephants regulate their body temperatures at zoos in Indianapolis, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Toronto.
The remarkable ability of fish to maneuver in tight places, or to hover in one area efficiently, or to accelerate in a seemingly effortless fashion has researchers wondering if they can create smarter materials that emulate the biology of these vertebrates.
Baylor University researchers have created and tested several new treatment systems to see if they could be part of the next generation of residential treatment systems.
Pigtail macaques in Thailand. Ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar. Fossil fishes in the deserts of Peru. Frogs in the mountains of Tanzania. Few regions of the world have escaped the attention of students enrolled in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Evolutionary Biology.
New research about what triggers earthquakes, authored by Michael Strasser of Bremen University, Germany, with colleagues from the USA, Japan, China, France, and Germany, will appear in the Aug. 16 2009 issue of Nature Geoscience (online version).
Salmonella was more resistant to heat treatment of whole cuts of beef than in ground beef products, according to a study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists.
When exposed to oxygen or stored for long periods, some oils lose healthy properties such as fatty acid levels. Researchers suggest decreasing or removing a natural antioxidant called alpha-tocopherol to reap the full benefits of healthy oils, according to a study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists.
A new study that examines whether reliable prediction models could be created to identify eroded waterways from digital terrain information, in order to help farmers and conservation professionals do a better job of designing and locating grassed waterways to reduce soil erosion.
What do flocks of birds have in common with trust, monogamy, and even breast milk? According to a new report in the journal Science, they are regulated by virtually identical neurochemicals in the brain, known as oxytocin in mammals and mesotocin in birds.
Phillip Mulligan is trying to make improvised explosive devices more powerful with the idea of eventually making them less deadly.
Citrus Huanglongbing (HLB) "“ also known as "citrus greening" - is a serious bacterial disease that is adversely affecting citrus groves worldwide. The disease has already been responsible for the significant decrease in citrus production in many countries in Asia, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Brazil. New technology has allowed for the DNA of the HLB bacterium to be recently sequenced, an important step toward starting the process of genetically engineering trees to resist the disease.
Researchers at NIST have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and stability of one of NIST's most versatile technologies, the microhotplate.
NIST physicists have improved an experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms, which now about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock.
Mississippi State teaches digital forensics courses at military medical facilities to injured soldiers, sailors and marines, providing them with career options that require limited mobility.
"Whatever the challenge, the answer is steel -- especially for the next generation of materials for energy applications, from oil and gas challenges to new materials for lighter weight vehicles," said Riad Asfahani of U.S. Steel Research & Technology, a Fellow and Trustee of ASM International, the materials information society.
The following faculty members from The George Washington University are available to comment on earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.
Gary Chiang, Ph.D., and colleagues at Burnham Institute for Medical Research have elucidated how the stability of the REDD1 protein is regulated. The REDD1 protein is a critical inhibitor of the mTOR signaling pathway, which controls cell growth and proliferation.
One of the top physics students in Mexico is spending this summer studying astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz as the first winner of the John Bahcall Award, established by UCSC astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz to honor his mentor.
New Zealand is the site of one of the world's youngest subduction zones, where the Pacific Plate of Earth's crust dives beneath the Australian Plate. Now, a University of Utah study shows how water deep underground helps the subduction zone mature and paves the way for it to generate powerful earthquakes.
Olympiads aren't the only global representatives expected in Vancouver this year. The site of the 2010 Winter Olympics will draw research park and innovation leaders from around the world this fall. The Association of University Research Parks (AURP) 2009 Annual Conference will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 21-23.
New research highlighted in the latest issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality shows that even very contaminated shooting range soils can be remediated by using poultry waste and revegetating the site.
1) One of ORNL's international partners, Switzerland's Paul Scherrer Institute, is delivering a massive 16-Tesla magnet at the DOE's SNS; 2) A first-ever systematic study of the effectiveness of reverse 911 calls shows it worked like a charm; 3) People producing child pornography and using the Internet to share their material could be living dangerously because of a technology developed at ORNL and Y-12 National Security Complex; 4) Researchers at DOE's SNS at ORNL set a new world record.
Scientists are delving into the mysteries of deep sea coral reefs in a race against time to protect these magnificent ecosystems and to better understand their benefits to the environment. Media will have an opportunity to participate in a day excursion to the research vessel.
A guide for designing buildings using steel moment frames to resist earthquakes has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of its support for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP).
A St. Louis-based team of plant and physician-scientists with a vision of eradicating malnutrition throughout the developing world today announced the formation of the Global Harvest Alliance (GHA), a humanitarian effort involving St. Louis Children's Hospital, The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and Washington University School of Medicine.
Bioluminescence is a fascinating phenomenon that is found only in a few species on land, but is common in all the world's oceans. If you have ever seen a firefly, then you have witnessed the same process in action. Scientists from leading marine science and exploration institutions have embarked on a NOAA funded expedition to explore "living lights" on the deep-sea floor off the Bahamas.
An additional 11 cutting-edge scientists, writers, and thinkers have been added to the Quantum to Cosmos Festival lineup.
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the organization representing professional vertebrate paleontologists worldwide, has called for a reversal of the decision to close the University Geological Museum in Laramie.
A small green beetle may have some interesting lessons to teach scientists about optics and liquid crystals "“ complex mechanisms the insect uses to create a shell so strikingly beautiful that for centuries it was used in jewelry.
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