# Posts

### August 19, 2014

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Team invents non-metallic metamaterial that enables them to 'compress' and contain light.
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Researchers use charge formation efficiency to screen materials for future devices.
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Superior energy efficiency of South Korean plants, and choice of […]
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The average temperature on Earth has barely risen over the […]
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New supercomputing calculations provide the first evidence that particles predicted […]
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An engineer at the University of Liverpool has found how […]
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Nurses who are motivated primarily by the desire to help […]
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About 60 percent of California is experiencing “exceptional drought,” the […]
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Mice missing two important proteins of the vascular system develop […]
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We’ve all seen ads for Fitbits, Jawbones, Gearfits – perhaps […]
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Handwashing with antibacterial soap exposes hospital workers to significant and […]
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Each year 2.5 million children die worldwide because they do […]
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New grant supports Northeastern University co-ops in cancer nanomedicine.
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Scientists discovered a way of enabling nano- and microparticles to produce logical calculations using a variety of biochemical reactions.
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Quando ho condiviso il tweet qui sotto, non mi ero reso ancora conto del nome che avevo appena letto, eppure avrebbe dovuto suonarmi un campanello nella testa. Continuano i riconoscimenti internazionali per la #matematica dell'Universita' della #Calabria pic.twitter.com/JHIWaVlVGu— Gianluigi Filippelli (@ulaulaman) August 18, 2014Poi dopo è successo che sono andato a ricontrollare (che poi i campanelli magari suonano e semplicemente la suoneria è così bassa che non la […]

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New research identifies a new type of sensor that can monitor body movements and could help revolutionise healthcare.
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The topics discussed at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Nanotechnology in the Security Systems' included nanophysics, nanotechnology, nanomaterials, sensors, biosensors security systems, explosive detection.
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New research confirms for the first time the possibility of modulating the magnetic properties of an inorganic material through organic photoactive molecules activated by light.
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Physicists and computer scientists are involved in a collaborative project to understand a long-lasting mystery: how light interacts with matter.
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Physicists have developed new technology to study atomic vibration in small particles, revealing a more accurate picture of the structure of atomic clusters where surface atoms vibrate more intensively than internal atoms.
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Researchers have developed a prototype of electronic 'nose' for the detection of chemical warfare gases, fundamentally nerve gases (Sarin, Soman and Tabun).
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The National Institutes of Health is challenging science innovators to compete for prizes totaling up to $500,000, by developing new ways to track the health status of a single cell in complex tissue over time. + Researchers have demonstrated an active glucose-responsive self-powered fluidic pump based on transesterification reaction of acyclic diol boronate with glucose. The scientific principle of the project is to use well-known glucose/boronate chemistry to design a self-powered micropump device. Instead of synthesizing some new molecules with glucose/boronate reaction, a miniature pump utilizes the energy of this chemical reaction and pumps drugs when glucose levels are high. + I found the paper for this project on my door Monday morning, and it made going into my office a tad more suspenseful. It also makes me wonder when the robots will be combined with the technology that runs the carnivorous clock. + Materials engineers fabricated a new nanobiosensor for the early diagnosis of cancer. + Alcuni ricercatori della Monash University hanno condotto una serie di studi allo scopo di ricavare nuovi indizi sulle fasi primordiali del Sistema Solare e sugli eventi che hanno portato alla nascita del Sole. Gli scienziati, guidati da Maria Lugaro e Alexander Heger, hanno utilizzato la tecnica del decadimento radioattivo applicata ai nuclei atomici trovati nelle meteoriti […] + Nanocoated tissue scaffolds help the body grow new bone to repair injuries or congenital defects. + Summary: Having worked through the examples that looked the most difficult, today's notes contain examples that are pick-up work from the easy problems. These are simple-ish tensor index identities, including the divergence of the position vector, the cross product of the position vector, the Laplacian of one over the displacement squared, and the curl of a gradient.$\nabla \cdot \vec{r} = 3= \dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_i} r_i$Keep in mind that$r_1 = x$,$r_2 = y$, and$r_3 = z\$. […]
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I’m working on attaching the cooling hoses to the iron yoke magnet today.  I attached the outlet hoses and ran a quick test to make sure that I did indeed have the outlet hose connections.  I attached a water bottle on a hose to the open connection pointed at in the picture below and forced water through.  The water exited at the labeled water out connection.  The exit connection will ultimately have a green hose on it like the manifold on the left.  Do not […]
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In the last few weeks I've been working with some second-year software engineering students on a design project. Their particular task is to build (with Lego - but the high-tech variety) a robot that can follow a white line on a bench. It's fun to watch them play with different ideas and concepts - there's the occasional disaster when the robot roars off at high speed in an unexpected direction and falls off the bench top.  To produce something that approximately works isn't that […]