Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced that they have observed a particle that might turn out to be the long-sought Higgs boson, or "God particle," thought to be part of the explanation for why matter ...
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192-laser shot at National Ignition Facility hits 2mm target with 1.8MJ,500TW–a new high NIF target Scientists at the National Ignition Facility(NIF),home to the world's highest-energy laser system,say that they are ...
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Athersys has received FDA orphan drug designation for its proprietary cell therapy, MultiStem, to treat Hurler's syndrome, also known as mucopolysaccharidosis type I or MPS-I. The orphan drug designation provides substantial potential ...
Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams ...
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Cyanobacteria bloom on Lake Erie, turning bright green near the surface. Satellite image taken Oct. 9, 2011. NASA MODIS data processed by R. Stumpf, NOAA. One summer day two years ago, Danny and Laura Jenkins' black Labrador retriever ...
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Fifty years ago this week a Delta rocket roared into space carrying a payload that sparked a revolution in the way the world communicates. On board the rocket, launched on July 10, was Telstar, the first telecommunications ...
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Photonics researcher wins€1M Krupp prize 04 Jul 2012 Christian Koos'work focuses on hybrid integration methods to combine silicon waveguides with organic materials. Prize-winner:Christian Koos'work focuses on hybrid integration ...
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The University of Oxford and a consortium of UK academic institutions have deployed what is believed to be the nation's most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer. The supercomputer,which uses 372 Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs,will be used for ...
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IDG News Service-CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson,the final missing ingredient in the standard model of particle Physics. The scientists ...
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A Florida-based research company claims to have solved the question of deforestation by “creating” wood through combining plant cuttings and a special agent responsible for forming shells in nature. Blue Word Crete, which ...
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's laser scanner suggests 22%of matter on floor of Shackleton crater could be frozen water. Pole hole:Shackleton crater at the moon's South Pole.NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO)spacecraft has ...
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A camera capable of taking pictures with a resolution up to 50 Gigapixels has been made by scientists at Duke University in North Carolina. It can reveal detail which is invisible to the photographer's eye. The university calls the ...
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22 June 2012 Sandia's InGaN nanowire template permits flexible solar energy absorption Researchers in solar energy want to convert as many of the sun's wavelengths as possible to achieve maximum efficiency.They hence see indium gallium ...
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By synchronizing 98 tiny cameras in a single device,electrical engineers from Duke University and the University of Arizona have developed a prototype camera that can create images with unprecedented detail.The camera's resolution is five ...
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The Berlin Competence Centre for Thin Film and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics(PVcomB)–a joint initiative of the Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy(HZB)and the Technical University of Berlin–has started operation ...
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