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Materials Sciences

Researchers Aim to Mitigate Impact of Unintended Hydrogen Leaks by Examining ‘Embrittlement’ Issues

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., however, have quietly been tackling the problem for years. Sandia is a National Nuclear…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Scientists Remove Thousands of Aspens to Glimpse Forest's Future

A band of bark was stripped from each tree to kill it without cutting it down.The main goal of the federally funded experiment Forest Accelerated Succession…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Wind Farm Planned for Sandia and Kirtland Air Force Base

The Labs’ Wind Energy Technology Department and the U.S. Department of Energy Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program have embarked on a project to determine…

Life & Chemistry

Glowing Films Detect Explosives from Contaminated Fingerprints

Contaminated fingerprints leave dark shadows on the films, which glow blue under ultraviolet light. One of the films can distinguish between different classes…

Life & Chemistry

Origin of Cells for Connective Tissues of Skull & Face Challenged

Weston and co-authors from the Max Planck Institute of Immunology in Germany and the French National Scientific Research Centre at the Curie Institute document…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Carbon Nanotubes: Insights from Sandia Research

Sandia National Laboratories is also in on the carbon nanotube game, with research led by physicist François Léonard. Léonard has considerable experience in…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Capture Birth of Single HIV Particle

A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude — and kept millions of sailors from…

Technology Offerings

Gold-Containing TiO Aggregate for Innovative Au/TiO2 Composites

Single Source Precursor for an Alternative Access to Au/TiO2-CompositesFurther Information: PDF rubitec – Gesellschaft für Innovation und Technologie der…

Technology Offerings

Stabilizing Thin Structures in Diesel Particle Filters Using Foamed Ceramics

In this process the clearance between the layers is being stabilised by a net of fine bridges, the pores of foamed ceramics. The layers can now be very thin…

Technology Offerings

Sintering Silicon Carbide RSiC: Enhancing Diesel Filters

According to this innovation SiO2-enriched additives are given to the binder containing compound. The carbon is then being oxidised inside of the sample, no…

Technology Offerings

New Membrane Filter Reduces Diesel Exhaust Fumes Effectively

In this new filter, which has been developed in a German university, the nanoparticles are evenly deposited. This is possible by using a finer basic material,…

Earth Sciences

How Big Quakes Trigger Global Seismic Jolts

Until 1992, when California’s magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large…

Health & Medicine

Enhancing Prostate Biopsies with Blood Flow Monitoring

The researchers found that biopsies targeted to areas of increased blood flow in the prostate were twice as likely to be positive for cancer compared with…

Life & Chemistry

Glowing Films Show Explosives Traces, UC San Diego Team Reveals

Contaminated fingerprints leave dark shadows on the films, which glow blue under ultraviolet light. One of the films can distinguish between different classes…

Studies and Analyses

Public Schools Match Private Schools in Boosting Math Scores

The results of the study appear in the May issue of the influential education journal Phi Delta Kappan.“These data provide strong, longitudinal evidence that…

Studies and Analyses

Pittsburgh Scientists Discover Protein Target for Triglyceride Therapies

Diabetes researchers at the John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have identified a potential target for the…

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