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Physics & Astronomy

PTB Achieves First Bose-Einstein Condensate with Calcium Atoms

This collective condition is called – named for its intellectual fathers – Bose-Einstein condensate. Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt…

Life & Chemistry

ISU Team Develops Embryonic Test for Bovine Genetics

An examination of a small sample of hair or blood can reveal if a calf has any genetic diseases that will lower the market price. Now, a team of clinicians and…

Environmental Conservation

Invasive Species Spread: Understanding Predictability Limits

Whether for introduced muskrats in Europe or oak trees in the United Kingdom, zebra mussels in United States lakes or agricultural pests around the world,…

Environmental Conservation

‘Green Clean:’ Researchers Determining Natural Ways To Clean Contaminated Soil

Through a partnership with state and federal government agencies, the military and industry, Dr. Elizabeth Nichols, environmental technology professor in NC…

Information Technology

NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan

TRMM rainfall images are false-colored with yellow, green and red areas, which indicate rainfall between 20 and 40 millimeters (.78 to 1.57 inches) per hour.Dark red areas are considered heavy rainfall, as much as 2 inches of rain per hour….

Environmental Conservation

NOAA Launches Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast for Lake Erie

HABs produce toxins that may pose a significant risk to human and animal health through water recreation and may form scum that are unsightly and odorous to…

Physics & Astronomy

New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven…

Earth Sciences

Nullarbor Fireball Cameras Discover Rare Meteorite

The research team, including CSIRO scientist Dr Rob Hough, was led by Professor Phil Bland of Imperial College London. The remarkable “detective” work was…

Studies and Analyses

OceanScope: Discovering the Depths of the Ocean’s Mysteries

Representatives from academia, ship owners and operators, naval architecture, government agencies and ocean technology companies gathered in Montreal, Canada…

Life & Chemistry

Problems Managing Money May Surface Shortly Before Alzheimer’s Disease Sets In

The study involved 76 older people with no memory problems and 87 older people with mild memory problems but no symptoms of dementia, known as mild cognitive…

Life & Chemistry

Cellular Garbage Men Transform Into Muscle Builders

For scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo, Italy, what seemed like a disappointing result turned out to be an…

Power and Electrical Engineering

$3 Million for Energy Chair at Missouri University of Science and Technology

The gift from Wayne Laufer, a 1967 civil engineering graduate of Missouri S&T (then known as the University of Missouri-Rolla), and his wife, Gayle, will fund…

Life & Chemistry

'Chicago Parakeet Project' Seeks Help Tracking Green Invaders

Whole colonies have descended from a few pets that escaped or were freed by their owners, as the garrulous green birds have adapted to Chicago's temperate…

Life & Chemistry

APS Podcast Updates Research on Elephant Communication

In Episode 25 of the APS podcast, Life Lines, the Stanford University professor updates her research from the APS journal Physiology, explaining how elephant…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Theoretical Electrical Resistance Discovery Proven in Nanomaterials Lab

Scientists know the correct answer is that interplay between theory and experiments result in new advances. At times, experiment and technological development…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Explore New Photovoltaic Inverters for Commercial Solar Plants

A current IMS Research study has shown that the PV plant market is expected to grow by at least 30 per cent annually until 2013, with the expectation that the…

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