Tag: physical sciences
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U.K. to Spend $20.4 Million on Catalytic Chemistry
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, or EPSRC, a research funding agency in the U.K., will devote £12.9 million ($US 20.4 million) to the U.K. Catalysis Hub, a catalytic science research program to support economic growth. The program is based at the Research Complex at Harwell in Oxfordshire, and is expected to involve scientists…
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Company, University to Develop 3D Models for Cancer Research
Organovo Holdings Inc. in San Diego, with Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, will develop three dimensional human tissue models to replicate cancer disease for lab testing of potential therapies. The partnership, for which financial terms were not disclosed, will apply Organovo’s 3D printing technology that builds tissue models for testing cancer treatments more…
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Consortium Building Safe Lightweight E-Car Body, Drivetrain
A consortium of German manufacturers and Technical University Munich (Technische Universität München) is building a prototype concept car that provides a lightweight, yet strong body for electric passenger vehicles. The consortium known as Visio.M is led by car maker BMW and includes Technical University Munich as the group’s scientific partner, as well as 15 other…
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Helmet Testing Expands to Baseball, Hockey, Lacrosse
Biomedical engineers at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University will rate helmets for concussion protection in a variety of sports, and for youth football, over the next five years. The rating program applies research conducted by Stefan Duma and Steven Rowson of the joint biomedical engineering program at the two universities published earlier this month…
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Material Developed for Warm White Light from LED Bulbs
Researchers from the U.S. and China created a light-emitting diode (LED) bulb that emits warm white light with a single light-emitting phosphor. The findings of University of Georgia physicist Zhengwei Pan, with colleagues from Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Oak Ridge National Lab, Argonne National Lab, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, were published online today…
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Personal Genetic Information Vulnerabilty Exposed
Researchers from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts were able to identify some 50 people who submitted samples as part of genetic studies with publicly accessible online resources. The team led by Yaniv Erlich of the Whitehead Institute, with colleagues from MIT, Harvard, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, International…
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Semiconductor Research Corp, DARPA, Launch University Nets
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia unveiled their support for six U.S. university research centers. STARnet, as the program is called, will devote $194 million microelectronics research over five years. SRC is university-company research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies…
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Imaging Technique Identifies Brain Adaptive Functions
Psychologists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and University of Washington in Seattle developed neural imaging methods to understand the way human brains adapt to injury. The team led by Carnegie Mellon’s Marcel Just, director of the university’s Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, published its findings online this week in the journal Cerebral Cortex. The…
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Nanotech Coating Provides Liquid-Repellent Surface
Materials scientists at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Air Force Research Lab at Edwards Air Force Base in California developed a new coating material that can repel virtually any liquid from a surface. The team led by Michigan engineering professor Anish Tuteja reported its findings in the current issue of the Journal of…
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Universities, Companies Study Oilseed Camelina as Biofuel
Bioscientists at Kansas State University in Manhattan, with colleagues at two other universities and four companies, are studying the economic potential of the oilseed plant camelina as a commercial biofuel feedstock. The project, led by K-State agricultural engineering professor Xiuzhi Susan Sun (pictured right), is funded by a $5.08 million grant from National Institute of…