Using the spun carbon nanotubes, UC physicist David Mast was able to broadcast AM and FM radio, video and get four bars of service on his cell phone. Credit: Lisa Britton/UC photographic services The University of Cincinnati has long been known for its world-record-breaking carbon nanotubes. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered [...]
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Inserting catheters without X-rays
This release is available in German. This is a rolled-up guide wire. Credit: Fraunhofer IPT Have the patient’s coronary vessels, heart valves or myocardial muscle changed abnormally? Doctors can verify this and administer the necessary therapy with the help of a catheter, which is inserted into the body through a small incision in the groin [...]
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Study prompts new mandate for N.C. high schools
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This collision event display, created by the CDF collaboration, shows a single top quark candidate event. The red arrow indicates the direction of a neutrino and the purple line the direction of an electron escaping from the decay of the top quark. Credit: CDF collaboration Batavia, Ill.—Scientists of the CDF and DZero collaborations at the [...]
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Arsenic may be tough, but scientists have found a Yellowstone National Park alga that’s tougher. The alga — a simple one-celled algae called Cyanidioschyzon — thrives in extremely toxic conditions and chemically modifies arsenic that occurs naturally around hot springs, said Tim McDermott, professor in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental [...]
Research team co-led by UC Riverside physicist observes production of single-top-quarks
posted in Headlines, SMRIVERSIDE, Calif. – A group of 28 scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, co-led by UC Riverside’s Ann Heinson, has made the first observation of the production of single top quarks – an observation that resulted from proton-antiproton collisions measured by the DZero detector in Fermilab’s Tevatron, the world’s highest-energy [...]
WASHINGTON – College women may be drinking to excess to impress their male counterparts on campuses across the country, but a new study suggests most college men are not looking for a woman to match them drink for drink. A survey of 3,616 college students at two American universities found an overwhelming majority of women [...]
“The society of the future will be even more knowledge-based than the present one. For that reason it is not only necessary to create the appropriate infrastructure, but also to ensure that existing knowledge is suitably prepared and made recognisable”, explains Prof. Hans-Joachim Grallert, Head of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI. In [...]
Small radio transmitters on skis provide information on whether the skis were parallel during a run for instance. Credit: © Dirk Mahler / Fraunhofer IFF A skier gives her all, closely races past the gates in the giant slalom to the final stretch. Yet, upon reaching the bottom, the disappointment is great: Too slow once [...]
Stanford, CA— Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on ocean water are making it increasingly difficult for coral reefs to grow, say scientists. A study to be published online March 13, 2009 in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at the Carnegie Institution and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem warns that if [...]