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Xenon Light Source for Spectroscopy

Ocean Optics has introduced the HPX-2000-HP-DUV xenon light source, a powerful, 75-W short-arc lamp suitable for UV-Vis absorbance spectroscopy and other applications where a high-intensity lamp is necessary.Read more about Xenon Light Source for Sp...

2-D Gas Chromatography Combines with High-Sensitivity Mass Spectrometer

JEOL USA Inc. has concluded an OEM agreement with Zoex Corp. to offer the Zoex 2-D gas chromatography (GC x GC) technology with the JEOL AccuTOF GCV 4G high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer system.Read more

Man-made material shows magnetic personality

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Study provides framework for understanding the energetics of ionic liquids

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$18 million to study deadly secrets of viruses

In an effort to sort out why some viruses such as influenza, Ebola and West Nile are so lethal, a team of U.S. researchers plans a comprehensive effort to model how humans respond to these viral pathogens.Read more about $18 million to study deadly s...

Rice Alliance named top global university business incubator

Rice Univ.’s Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship has been named the top global university business incubator of 2013, according to the first in-depth study by the University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, based in Sweden.Read more ab...

New model explains mysterious effects in high-temperature superconductors

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Study: Earthquake acoustics can indicate if a massive tsunami is imminent

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake occurred 43 miles off the shore of Japan. The earthquake generated an unexpectedly massive tsunami that washed over eastern Japan roughly 30 minutes later, killing more than 15,800 people and inj...

Differentially Pumped PSM Plasma Probe

Hiden Analytical’s Hiden differentially pumped PSM plasma probe provides measurement of the key parameters required for establishing the reaction chemistry of diverse plasma and pulsed-plasma processesRead more about Differen

High-Pressure Fittings

Valco Instruments Co. Inc.’s Cheminert high-pressure PEEK fittings are rated at 5,000 psi with finger-tight nuts.Read more about High-Pressure Fittings

Innovative solar cell structure stores, supplies energy simultaneously

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Is Big Data turning government into 'Big Brother?'

With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials. The revelations that the National Secu...

Study shows possible expanded use of cancer drug

A cancer drug developed at the Advanced Photon Source may be following a local tradition and going for a Chicago Bulls-like three-peat.Read more about Study shows possible expanded use of cancer drug

Military vehicle seating: Keeping American soldiers safe

Transportation crashes have accounted for two-thirds of U.S. noncombat military deaths since 2000—a trend Univ. of Michigan researchers are hoping to help reverse. Research Prof. Matthew Reed and colleagues at the U-M Transportation Research Instit...

Compulsive no more

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Study suggests second life for possible spintronic materials

Ten years ago, scientists were convinced that a combination of manganese and gallium nitride could be a key material to create spintronics, the next generation of electronic devices that operate on properties found at the nanoscale.Read more about St...

Firefighting robot paints 3-D thermal imaging picture for rescuers

Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles.Read more about...

Metamaterial flexible sheets could transform optics

New ultrathin, planar, lightweight and broadband polarimetric photonic devices and optics could result from recent research by a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists. The advances would boost security screening systems, infrared thermal...

Observation of spin Hall effect in quantum gas is step toward "atomtronics"

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High-Pressure Carbon Dioxide Pump

Supercritical Fluid Technologies Inc. introduces the self-contained SFT-10 liquid carbon dioxide pump. Advanced Peltier (thermoelectric) technology makes it possible to achieve high pressure without the need for an external cooling bath.Read more abo...

Full-Wafer DualBeam Analysis System

FEI Co. has introduced the Helios NanoLab 1200AT, the newest generation of its full-wafer DualBeam analysis systems.Read more about Full-Wafer DualBeam Analysis SystemComments

Hyperpolarized diamond nuclei increase NMR/MRI sensitivity

Today’s nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies, like quantum information processing and nuclear spintRead more

Researchers control flying robot with only the mind

Researchers in the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering have developed a new noninvasive system that allows people to control a flying robot using only their mind. The study goes far beyond fun and games and has the potentia...

Pebbles, sand on Mars best evidence that a river ran through it

Pebbles and sand scattered near an ancient Martian river network may present the most convincing evidence yet that the frigid deserts of the Red Planet were once a habitable environment traversed by flowing water.Read more about Pebbles, sand on Mars...

Surface plasmon resonance sensors improved with carpet of gold

A sensor that relies on reflected light to analyze biomedical and chemical samples now has greater sensitivity, thanks to a carpet of gold nanoparticles. Xia Yu of the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, along with her students an...