Applied Physics

'Lab On A Chip' Speeds Studies Of Brain Cells

Johns Hopkins researchers from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine have devised a micro-scale tool- a lab on a chip- designed to mimic the chemical complexities of the brain. The system should help scientists better understand how ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2008 - 1:41pm

New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Could Impact Climate Change Models

A comprehensive new study documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland’s ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based. The research is publi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2008 - 11:31am

The Bioengineering Challenge Of Making Cells Into Organs

For more than a decade, Peter Zandstra has been working at the University of Toronto to rev up the production of stem cells and their descendants. The raw materials are adult blood stem cells and embryonic stem cells. The end products are blood and heart c ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2008 - 1:53am

Using Quantum Mechanics To Hold Off The Computing Train Wreck Waiting At 25 NM

The strange world of quantum mechanics can provide a way to surpass limits in speed, efficiency and accuracy of computing, communications and measurement, according to research by MIT scientist Seth Lloyd. Quantum mechanics is the set of physical theories ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2008 - 1:32am

The Persistent Mystery Of Language Evolution

The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT. Berwick will describe his ideas about language in a session at the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2008 - 4:26am

Odd Tectonic Plate Movement- Lighter Ones Sink Into The Lower Mantle

The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move, that collision with one sliding below the other into the rocky mantle, could potentially improve their ability to assess earthquake risks. A team of researchers writing in Nature found that, c ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:39pm

Get Ready For Exascale Computing- 1,000,000 Times Faster Than A Teraflop

An exaflop is a thousand times faster than a petaflop, itself a thousand times faster than a teraflop. Teraflop computers —the first was developed 10 years ago at Sandia — currently are the state of the art. They do trillions of calculations a second. Exaf ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2008 - 8:17am

Don't Worry- The Sun Will Only Vaporize Earth If We Don't Change Our Orbit

University of Sussex astronomers predict that the Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun unless the Earth’s orbit can be altered- but we have about 7.6 billion years to do it. Dr Robert Smith, Emeritus Reader in Astronomy, said his team previously calculate ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2008 - 8:29am

Electron Caught On Film For The First Time

It has always been impossible to clearly photograph electrons since their extremely high velocities have produced blurry pictures. In order to capture these rapid events, extremely short flashes of light are necessary, but such flashes were not previously ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2008 - 4:59pm

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Article - Lorenzo Nardi - Feb 22 2008 - 10:49am