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- Scientific Climate Systems June 1, 2012Scientific Climate Systems offers stability chambers where humidity and temperature need to be controlled for research and testing in the pharmaceutical and medical fields.
- Attolight SA May 31, 2012Combining electron microscopy and light microscopy in a single stand-alone device, Attolightʼs solution reveals ultra-trace impurities and crystallographic defects not visible using other imaging modalities.
- Attolight CL system May 31, 2012The first quantitative cathodoluminescence system offering a spatial resolution below 10nm, a field of view of 300 μm, and an optional 10 ps time resolution mode.
- Attolight Analytical Services May 31, 2012Attolight has laboratories facilities and testing capabilities available for contract services.
- DNA tiles pave the way May 31, 2012Fabricating shapes out of single-stranded DNA
- NT-MDT participates in EU project for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease May 31, 2012NT-MDT participates in EU project for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
- LC Multimode OM3 10Gb 50/125µm 6 Pack & 12 Pack Fiber Pigtails 1 & 3 Meters Long May 31, 2012We offer multimode fiber optic pigtails in 6 and 12 packs. MM OM3 10Gb 50/125µm 6 Pack & 12 pack fiber optic pigtails. Available with SC/UPC, LC/UPC, ST/UPC, and FC/UPC connectors and in any length.
- MTP Fan-out/Breakout Fiber Optic Cable Assemblies May 31, 2012We supply MTP / MPO Fan-out cables, also known as MTP Breakout fiber optic cables. These cables are completely customizable in virtually any configuration or length with SC, LC, ST, or FC connectors.
- Cisco WS-G5484 May 31, 2012The WS-G5484 is a Cisco 1000BASE-SX GBIC Transceiver, 850nm, MMF, 550M, SC Duplex Connector.
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- Microwaves transmit stock trades faster than fibre optics June 1, 2012Stock traders want to use microwaves instead of fibre optics to trade between Chicago and New York. Is the speed of light too slow?
- Today on New Scientist: 1 June 2012 June 1, 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: go for a jog with a helicopter drone and geoengineering would turn blue skies whiter
- Friday Illusion: How colour can warp a wheel's motion June 1, 2012See a new colourful variation of the classic wagon wheel effect that illustrates some of the quirks of how we perceive motion
- Busy week for a little scorched Dragon June 1, 2012The SpaceX Dragon capsule has made quite a journey, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station
- Goo-goo-gorillas have their own kind of baby talk June 1, 2012Adult gorillas modify their gestures when communicating with infants. It is being compared to "motherese" - the baby talk human parents use when talking to their children
- Go for a jog with a helicopter drone June 1, 2012Joggobot, a small quad-rotored robot, will fly in front of you as you run to set the pace and keep you motivated
- Premature babies may have increased risk of psychosis June 1, 2012Babies born before 37 weeks may be at greater risk of a broad range of psychiatric conditions such as bipolar disorder and depression
- 'Western cancers' spreading to developing world June 1, 2012As developing countries become more affluent and adopt westernised lifestyles, cancers of the breast, colon and prostate are predicted to soar
- Immune cells gobble up healthy but idle brain cells June 1, 2012Microglia destroy and eat under-used synapses in healthy brains – understanding how and why could help tackle neurodegenerative diseases
- Geoengineering would turn blue skies whiter June 1, 2012The skies might change colour if geoengineers inject light-scattering aerosols into the upper atmosphere to combat global warming
NASA
- SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns To Earth After First Commercial Flight To Space Station May 31, 2012SpaceX's Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few hundred miles west of southern California, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the International Space Station.
- NASA Selects Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services Contract May 31, 2012NASA has selected SGT Inc., of Greenbelt, Md., for the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services contract for the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
- NASA Begins Development of Space Launch System Flight Software May 31, 2012NASA engineers working on the new Space Launch System (SLS) can now begin developing the advanced, heavy-lift launch vehicle's flight software using newly delivered software test bed computers from Boeing.
- NASA Seeks Early Stage Innovations For Space Technologies From U.S. Universities May 31, 2012NASA is seeking proposals from accredited U.S. universities focused on innovative, early-stage space technologies that will improve shielding from space radiation, spacecraft thermal management and optical systems.
- NASA'S Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-on Collision May 31, 2012NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
- Students Nationwide To Exhibit NASA Spacecraft Lunar Images May 31, 2012Media representatives are invited to see middle-school students and their teachers demonstrate science lessons and highlight selected images provided by twin NASA spacecraft studying the moon from crust to core.
- NASA'S Commercial Crew Partner Sierra Nevada Corporation Completes Dream Chaser Flight Test Milestone May 31, 2012Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems successfully completed a "captive carry test" of its full-scale Dream Chaser orbital crew vehicle Tuesday, marking a new milestone in the company's effort to develop transportation for astronauts to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station.
- NASA Selects Five Universities For 2013 X-Hab Innovation Challenge May 31, 2012Five universities have been selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.
- NASA Selects Goddard Logistics And Technical Information Contract May 30, 2012NASA has selected TRAX International of Las Vegas to provide for Goddard Logistics and Technical Information services at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
- NASA Preparing to Launch Its Newest X-ray Eyes May 30, 2012NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.
dailygalaxy
- Found: A Distant Galaxy Formed 800-Million Years After Big Bang June 1, 2012Astronomers have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light from the recently detected galaxy left the object about 800 million years after the beginning of the universe, when the...
- 'Echoes' Offer Clues to a Galaxy's Mysterious X-Ray Source June 1, 2012An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" in galaxy NGC 4151 that promises a new way to probe supersized black holes in distant galaxies. The galaxy...
- Image of the Day: Stunning Beauty of the Centaurus A Massive Elliptical Galaxy June 1, 2012Centaurus A, also known as NGC 5128, is an odd elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart. It lies about 12 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur) and has the distinction of...
- SpaceX Dragon Splashes Down Safely --Next Up: Manned Missions June 1, 2012The landmark space mission for commercial spaceflight ended at 15.42 UTC yesterday when the Dragon capsule slipped into the Pacific Ocean, 80 kilometres off Baja California, proving that uncrewed cargo vessels sent to the ISS can be recovered and reused....
- Comment of the Day: Human Technology Scans the Southern Milky Way June 1, 2012"Beautiful photo. Quite allegorical, all those eyes gazing skyward represent to me our deep fascination with the cosmos. We know we are a part of it, so we look outward for answers, yet as the ancients say, As above, so...
- View Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG June 1, 2012Click Here to View Today's Hot Tech News Video from IDG --Publishers of PC World, MacWorld, and Computerworld
- Super Volcanic Eruptions with the Potential to End Civilizations --Disturbing New Discovery May 31, 2012Enormous volcanic eruptions more than 100 times the size of ordinary volcanic eruptions like Mount St. Helens. with potential to end civilizations may have surprisingly short fuses, researchers have discovered. These eruptions are known as super-eruptions because they are They...
- Milky Way Galaxy Began with Globular Star Clusters and Dwarf Galaxies --New Finding May 31, 2012An exciting new study shows that the Milky Way's construction schedule began with the oldest globular star clusters and dwarf galaxies, which formed a few hundred million years after the big bang, settling into what is now the galaxy's halo,...
- SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Returns to Earth Today May 31, 2012After making its iconic journey as the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth today. Dragon is the only spacecraft capable of returning a significant amount of cargo from the space...
- Image of the Day: Human Technology Scans the Southern Milky Way May 31, 2012European Space Organization photographer Babak Tafreshi snapped this remarkable image of the antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), set against the of the Milky Way. This view shows the constellations of Carina (The Keel) and Vela (The Sails)....
technologyreview
- The Latest on the Facebook Phone June 1, 2012Here's what you need to know. Though I recently diagnosed rumors of a Facebook phone as “overblown,” it appears I was mistaken. Nick Bilton of the New York Times this week reported on Facebook’s interest in entering the hardware business--and the rest of the tech press has piled on saying what a terrible idea it is.
- Merck Looks to Startups June 1, 2012The drug giant is hoping to boost its innovation pipeline with new funding for early-stage biotechnology research. With pharmaceutical industry research budgets shrinking, large drug companies are instead looking to support early-stage biotechnology startups. Merck, Eli Lilly, and GlaxoSmithKline have all announced investments in such companies in recent mon […]
- Intel Ultrabooks Will Mooch Free Wi-Fi June 1, 2012With a little help from Devicescape. There’s free Wi-Fi all around you, particularly if you live in a big city. That café you walked by, that neighbor who didn’t properly lock down her network, that public park you sat in on the way to work... free Wi-Fi abounds. But since you often have to hunt about for it manually, and you’re unsure of its quality until y […]
- How Obama Was Dangerously Naive About STUXNET and Cyberwarfare June 1, 2012A Times exposé suggests that the White House failed to consider how our own cyberweapons would be used against us. If the New York Times' comprehensive account of the birth of the STUXNET worm that slowed Iran's efforts to enrich uranium tells us anything, it's that the Obama administration was remarkably naive about the potential for the prol […]
- A Startup Hopes to Help Computers Understand Web Pages June 1, 2012Diffbot aims to make it easier for apps to read Web pages the way humans do. No matter what language you speak, when you look at a Web page, you can get a good idea of the purpose of the different elements on it—whether they're images, videos, text, music, or ads. It's not so easy for machines to do the same, though.
- Imagining What's Possible for New Google Domains June 1, 2012
- There Is No Digital Divide May 31, 2012A concept that animates hundreds of millions in Federal spending needs to be retired. We all know poor people are on the wrong side of an uncrossable technological chasm known as the "digital divide." Their lack of iPads and data plans and broadband is just one more way they're doomed to stay poor right up until they become the shock troops of […]
- Paralyzed Rats Walk Again May 31, 2012Spinal stimulation combined with assisted walking therapy generates new neural circuits and restores voluntary leg movement. Rats paralyzed by spinal-cord injury can learn to control their hind limbs again if they are trained to walk in a rehabilitative device while their lower spine is electrically and chemically stimulated. A clinical trial using a similar […]
- SETI Finds No Signs of E.T. Nearby May 31, 2012
- Is This the Key to Vastly Better Batteries? May 31, 2012One company thinks it's solved a key problem that's been holding back new energy technology. Researchers are experimenting with a handful of ideas that could make batteries vastly better than they are today, which could lead to more affordable electric cars and cheaper ways to store solar power to use at night. But many of these approaches have one […]
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- Brain Tissue Is Responsive To Light, Says Study May 29, 2012A recent placebo-controlled study showed evidence of trans-cranial bright light's effect to brain functions when administered through the ear. Bright light stimulation was found to increase activity in brain areas related to processing of visual sensory information and tactile stimuli. The findings are the first ever published scientific article about f […]News Account
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- Quotes On Peer Review In HEP May 29, 2012Dear readers, your input is appreciated. Please read the following quotes and let me know what are your thoughts on the matter in the comments thread. You need not leave your name if you wish to remain anonymous, but I'd appreciate it if you mentioned your degree of education and whether you are/were/will be a scientist.Quote 1: read moredorigo
- I Authored 700 Papers. Did I Read Them All ? No. May 29, 2012Measuring the value and the impact of a scientist on her field of research using as data her scientific papers, the number of citations these papers got, and the prestige of the scientific journals where these were published is no easy matter. Grading Researchers: The H-IndexThere is a large body of literature on how best to account for all these factors tog […]dorigo
- Help Create The Most Powerful FQXi Essay: Fall Of Direct Realism May 29, 2012 vongehr
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