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A system designed to signal the presence of chemicals such as pathogens, explosives, disease-related biomarkers or toxins through a visual glow has been developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge.
The instrument has a variety of applications in numerous fields of resea... |
14 December 2011
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German researchers from the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) say that the likelihood of detecting proposed universal patterns called gravitational waves from Earth could increase significantly if just a single new detector is installed on Earth.
Thus far, these structures were not identified, but detectors are bein... |
28 May 2011
04:16 GMT |
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A group of chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the development of an extremely advanced sensor, which has the capability to detect even a single molecule of explosives such as trinitrotoluene (TNT).The combination of materials that was needed to create the new sensors is ju... |
10 May 2011
10:05 GMT |
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The ALICE detector on the Large Hadron Collider is helping theoretical physicists understand the world of elementary particles better than ever before. The first discoveries made by the detector have been published already, less than a month after the LHC changed the material it was working with. When the largest par... |
9 December 2010
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A group of scientists has recently proposed a new method of testing whether rogue nations suspected of being involved in constructing and operating nuclear reactors are actually building such structures. In the approach, which is non-invasive, so to speak, antineutrino detectors would be installed off the coast of su... |
23 November 2010
09:37 GMT |
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Right now, one of the hottest topics in international news is that of the Yemen bomb plots, but this problem related to air transport and international security has also had some effects in the world of technology, since Morpho Detection, Inc. part of Morpho, Safran group’s security business, has announced that... |
2 November 2010
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been conducting research related to the fields of nuclear physics for many years. A couple of years ago, in 2008, experts at the Lab's Nuclear Science Division (NSD) launched the Applied Nuclear Physi... |
3 June 2010
04:57 GMT |
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An international collaboration of scientists, led by experts at the Columbia University, announced at a workshop on May 1 that their dark matter detector failed to confirm the discoveries previously made by other research groups. The XENON100 Experiment is the most sensitive dark matter detector ever created, and the... |
7 May 2010
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For decades, astronomers and astrophysicists have been looking at methods of detecting dark matter, the stuff believed to make up about a quarter of the Universe. Its existence was hypothesized a long time ago, but no practical experiments were able to show it exists. This has frustrated many experts, while others be... |
24 March 2010
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Scientists involved in the Borexino experiment managed to recently identify the first traces of geo-neutrinos in their detector, a facility buried under 1.5 kilometers of mountain. Located in Italy, underneath the Gran Sasso mountain, near l'Aquila, the 80-scientist endeavor managed to identify tell-tale signs o... |
16 March 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Over the past couple of decades, astronomers and astrophysicists have been searching for the elusive dark matter with everything at their disposal. From special satellites to advanced underground facilities buried deep within disused mines, detectors for this form of matter are nearly everywhere. In spite of these ef... |
16 March 2010
03:52 GMT |
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Designing and building the world's largest, space-based observatory to date – the James Webb Space Telescope – is no easy task. Numerous technologies have to be produced specifically for this mission, and the sunshield that will protect the spacecraft from stray solar radiation is one of them. Thus f... |
6 March 2010
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Discovering dark matter is undoubtedly among the most important goals in science today. This elusive form of matter is thought to be responsible for holding galaxies in place through the gravitational effects it exerts on regular matter. However, no team in the world has until now been able to catch a glimpse at the ... |
19 February 2010
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Scientists in the Asian nation are excited about the fire-up of their latest synchotron, a particle accelerator featuring a 30-GeV Main Ring. The J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) is managed by a multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration, and has over the weekend made its first neutrino observations.... |
28 November 2009
05:46 GMT |
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An Italian team argued some time ago that it had discovered dark matter, in a statement that shocked the world of astrophysics. However, when other research groups wanted to replicate the experiments, they had a very difficult time doing so. It may be that they will have to reach the same conclusion as the Italians, ... |
4 November 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Each and every action that we perform, be it a thought or an actual movement of an arm or leg, is done via electrical impulses. These impulses travel through neurons in nerve fibers from head to toe in extremely brief periods of time, a trait that allows us to perform sudden movements, and not experience “lags&... |
28 October 2009
21:11 GMT |
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While the Big Bang theory is still the most agreed-upon idea on how the Universe formed, the final faith of the Cosmos is still a subject of hot debate among astronomers and physicists. While some say that it will expand to a point where it will become a dark, empty void, others claim that it will eventually contract... |
17 August 2009
03:29 GMT |
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An international team of scientists from Denmark and Tennessee, the US, have come up with an experimental new way of detecting explosives and other similar, dangerous compounds, by simply going after the smell their physical vapors give out. The new technique is currently being refined and tested in the field, and de... |
16 March 2009
06:25 GMT |
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