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NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope Eye Surgery
May 15, 2013 7:09 pm | by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | News | Comments
Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope. They scrubbed up and suited up to perform one of the most delicate performances of their lives. That part of the eyes, the MIRI, or Mid-Infrared Instrument, will glimpse the formation of...
Trophy Molecule a Real Surprise
May 7, 2013 4:25 pm | by University of Nottingham | News | Comments
The search for cleaner, low temperature nuclear fuels has produced a shock result for a team of...
Mathematicians Help to Unlock Brain Function
May 3, 2013 2:35 pm | by Queen Mary, University of London | News | Comments
Mathematicians from Queen Mary, University of London will bring researchers one-step closer to...
Printable Bionic Ear Melds Electronics and Biology
May 2, 2013 6:19 am | by Princeton University, Engineering School | News | Comments
Scientists at Princeton University used off-the-shelf printing tools to create a functional ear...
New Emerging Technologies Showcase at SC13
May 20, 2013 11:49 am | by Bill Gropp, SC13 General Chair | News | CommentsIt is my great privilege to serve as the General Chair of SC this year. This conference, now in its 26th year, combines a deep regard for quality and tradition with a commitment to innovation that ensures SC stays relevant in a community that fundamentally reinvents itself at least once a decade. As an attendee, this means that you can rely upon the familiar favorites you've come to expect while looking forward to discovering something new.
Higher Performance Computing: Enabling a Smarter, Brighter Energy Future
May 20, 2013 11:45 am | by Carl Bauer, Bauer Consulting | News | CommentsSupplying energy to the American people is an increasingly complex task. These complexities include not just the conversion of the various forms of energy (oil, gas, wind, hydropower, etc.) into useful forms (transportation fuel and electricity) but also moving the more useful form to where it can be used (transmission). Economics and government regulations complicate the matter further.
Deep-sea Copepod
May 20, 2013 10:10 am | News | CommentsThis 10x photo shows the dorsal view of a female deep-sea copepod (Pontostratiotes sp.) collected in the southeastern Atlantic at a depth of 5395 meters. The image received an honorable mention in the 2012 Nikon Small World Photomicrophotography Competition.
Gut of Fruit Fly Larva
May 17, 2013 1:55 pm | News | CommentsThis photo shows a single optical section through the whole gut of a fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) larva expressing a reporter for Notch signaling pathway activity (green), and stained with cytoskeletal (red) and nuclear (blue) markers.
COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b
May 17, 2013 1:53 pm | Comsol, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsThe COMSOL Multiphysics 4.3b simulation platform features application-specific modules, including Multibody Dynamics, Wave Optics, Molecular Flow, and Semiconductor and Electrochemistry.
Successfully Implementing Quality by Design An Introductory Workshop
May 17, 2013 12:22 pm | EventsThis class will teach you the key components of QbD which are crucial for any individual look into to implement QbD in their business in the next 12 months. QbD will be the norm within 10 years and manufacturing efficiency will be significantly improved. Adoption of an integrated Product Quality Lifecycle Process facilitates innovation, continual improvement and strengthens the link between pharmaceutical development and manufacturing activities.
How to Handle IT Systems in a Paperless Laboratory
May 17, 2013 12:19 pm | EventsThe training course will adress the latest regulatory vision and interpretation in relation to computerized systems (including 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11) ad will explain the procedure for the implementation of validated computer systems (especially GAMP5).
How to Handle IT Systems in a Paperless Laboratory
May 17, 2013 12:14 pm | EventsThe training course will adress the latest regulatory vision and interpretation in relation to computerized systems (including 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11) ad will explain the procedure for the implementation of validated computer systems (especially GAMP5).
How to Handle IT Systems in a Paperless Laboratory
May 17, 2013 12:09 pm | EventsThe training course will adress the latest regulatory vision and interpretation in relation to computerized systems (including 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11) ad will explain the procedure for the implementation of validated computer systems (especially GAMP5).
Physicists Create World's Smallest Droplets
May 17, 2013 8:54 am | by Vanderbilt University | News | CommentsPhysicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland.
New Method Proposed for Detecting Gravitational Waves from Ends of Universe
May 16, 2013 7:57 pm | by University of Nevada, Reno | News | CommentsRENO, Nev. – A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos. Their paper describing the device and process was published in the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters.
Can Math Models of Gaming Strategies Be Used to Detect Terrorism Networks?
May 16, 2013 3:55 pm | by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | News | CommentsPhiladelphia, PA— The answer is yes, according to a paper in the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. In a paper published in the journal last month, authors Anthony Bonato, Dieter Mitsche, and Pawel Pralat describe a mathematical model to disrupt flow of information in a complex real-world network, such as a terrorist organization, using minimal resources.
Carbon in a Twirl: The Science Behind a Self-assembled Nano-carbon Helix
May 16, 2013 12:54 pm | by University of Vienna | News | CommentsNanomaterials exhibit unique properties that can only unfold when the structures of the material are very small – that is, at the nanoscale. In order to exploit these special properties such as, for example, specific quantum effects it is very important to produce predefined nanostructures in a controlled way and interpret the formation of their shape. Scientists try to understand how to initiate...
Red Algae
May 16, 2013 10:33 am | News | CommentsThis 10x photo of red algae (Ptilota) received an honorable mention in the 2012 Nikon Small World Photomicrophotography Competition. Dr. Arlene Wechezak of Anacortes, WA, used a darkfield technique to capture the image. www.nikonsmallworld.com
New World Record set in Wireless Data Transmission
May 16, 2013 9:22 am | by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | News | CommentsResearchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmission.
