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Javier Atencia is an investigator that spent a lot of time toying with microfluidic devices, the small, scientific instruments made up of tiny channels that conduct fluids, which can be used for a very wide array of applications, including water diagnostics and decontamination. Like others before him, he came to the ... |
18 November 2009
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Measuring the frequencies of visible light is not exactly the most difficult thing to do, but a team of experts at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), in the United States, and the University of Konstanz, in Germany, has just finished developing a new tool that will make this process ev... |
30 October 2009
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As any construction-site foreman will tell you, fingerprint-recognition hardware installed at these locations oftentimes fails to provide a correct identification of the worker. This happens because their fingers, especially their thumbs, are usually damaged and bruised from all the intense labor. Scientists at the U... |
26 October 2009
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Waveforms are concepts very well known to those working with electricity, or in music production, but for different reasons. They are graphical shapes showing how electrical signals vary over time, and they are extremely useful in setting the groundwork for new types of circuits and other electronic devices. Now, sci... |
7 October 2009
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Everyone knows that one of the basic traits magnets have is sporting two poles. If you break a larger magnet into two smaller ones, then each of the them will have a “north” and a “south pole.” For some time, experts have theorized that it could be possible to create magnetic monopoles, as in ... |
7 October 2009
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Physicists Carlos Lopez-Mariscal and Kristian Helmerson, with the aid of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, have recently devised a new method of encasing single molecules in microdroplets. The innovation will allow experts to devise and monit... |
23 September 2009
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Microprocessor architects have hoped for a long time that a day will come when molecule-sized electronic components will become readily available and fit for implementation in next-gen devices. Scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently developed a new, small-scale “s... |
28 August 2009
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Experts have been working hard on overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way of creating a fully functional quantum computer for quite some time now, but one of the main issues in their path was the fact that they could not control the actions of a single qubit (quantum bit – the basic unit of a quantum pro... |
8 July 2009
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Ion traps haven't been a thing of novelty for a very long time, ever since they started being used regularly in atomic clocks, as well as in lines of research related to quantum computing development. Ions, which are essentially electrically charged atoms, move through these so-called traps, and experience all s... |
2 July 2009
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Experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) managed to create one of the most sophisticated and accurate laser ranging systems, combining two very precise long-distance measurement techniques with an optical survey method known as an optical frequency comb. The result is a LIDAR (Light Detect... |
25 May 2009
06:08 GMT |
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Law enforcement agencies around the world rely on a lot of new gadgets to complete their tasks, including powerful computers, state-of-the-art forensics methods, worldwide databases, fingerprint systems, and so on. But even their most basic devices, in use everyday, such as down-the-road (DTR) radars and ballistic ch... |
22 May 2009
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Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) experts have announced that they managed to determine the energy spectrum of graphene, the “wonder” carbon compound that has only two dimensions. By using complex measurement techniques, they succeeded in d... |
15 May 2009
08:47 GMT |
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Researchers at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) managed to successfully conclude a new laser-based research recently, having created a prototype nanotube-coated power measurement device for high-precision calibration. The innovation could benefit those laser systems that are now used in the ... |
9 May 2009
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The theory that holds the Big Bang responsible for the creation of the Universe is one way of explaining how everything around us came to be, but it also raises questions as to what happened in those early moments, when the basis for all that exists today was set. More specifically, experts wonder what happened in th... |
4 May 2009
05:50 GMT |
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US experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently announced that they are in the latter stages of developing a new investigation technique that will help forensics specialists in the manual portion of the latent fingerprint identification. This would free up a lot of time for the... |
24 April 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Human teeth have such a remarkable strength, that dentists never cease to be amazed at how even a tooth covered in cracks can still hold together, without breaking apart. They know that the enamel, which constitutes the outer layer of the teeth, is a very strong, yet brittle material, and so they couldn't explai... |
14 April 2009
06:15 GMT |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) theorists have recently discovered a new obstacle that has the potential to hinder the development of quantum computers – the fact that software capable of looking for and handling errors that might occur during calculations are more difficult to produce tha... |
9 April 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Creating junctions inside future quantum processors is a very important step in their design. Actually, some may argue that this is the most important step, as, without a pathway to carry information from one place to the other inside a processor, all other innovations in the area are useless. However, the main probl... |
9 April 2009
03:21 GMT |
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