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Networks Of WoW Gamers, Etsy Crafters To Be Focus Of NSF-funded Study Of Creative Collaborations

(Indiana University) Using two of the planet's largest, creative online communities -- World of Warcraft gamers and Etsy artists -- as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive, networked...

UCSF Unveils Model For Implantable Artificial Kidney To Replace Dialysis

(University of California - San Francisco) UCSF researchers today unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, in a development that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis.

Carnegie Mellon Hosting First Conference To Explore Scientific Use Of Gigapixel Imagery

(Carnegie Mellon University) Scientists who are pioneering the use of gigapixel imagery will discuss how they are leveraging this new technology Nov. 11-13 at the first Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. The...

Human Unconscious Is Transferred To Virtual Characters

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) Virtual characters can behave according to actions carried out unconsciously by humans. Researchers at the University of Barcelona have created a system which measures human physiological parameters, such as respiration or...

Listening To Ancient Colors

(McGill University) A team of McGill chemists have discovered that a technique known as photoacoustic infrared spectroscopy could be used to identify the composition of pigments used in art work that is decades or even centuries old. Pigments give artist's materials color, and they...

Ph.D. Thesis Researches Relationship Of Youth Today With The New Technologies

(Elhuyar Fundazioa) Sociologist Ms. Lucia Merino presented her Ph.D. thesis entitled, "Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation of young people," at the University of the Basque Country.

Dynamic Memory Mapping Delivers Additional Flexibility To Virtual Resource Management

(Science in China Press) The Department of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China, has shown that a novel dynamic memory mapping model brings about additional flexibility to virtual resource management, leading to the feature-adjustable design of a...

New Process Promises To Revolutionize Manufacturing Of Products

(University of Waterloo) A new "smart materials" process -- Multiple Memory Material Technology -- developed by University of Waterloo engineering researchers promises to revolutionize the manufacture of diverse products such as medical devices, microelectromechanical systems...

New Material May Reveal Inner Workings Of Hi-temp Superconductors

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Measurements taken at NIST may help physicists develop a clearer understanding of high-temperature superconductors, whose behavior remains in many ways mysterious decades after their discovery. A new copper-based compound...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Wins HP Innovation Award

(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) he universe around us can be expressed as numbers, and those numbers in pattern paint a picture: a network of friends from the vastness of the Internet; travel patterns among residents of cold climates; or a common factor among victims of a...

PVDF & PTFE Membrane Filters

PVDF & PTFE Membrane Filters

3 hours ago | Products

Meissner’s Steridyne® 50 (PVDF) and Ultradyne® 50 (PTFE) are multipurpose 50 mm filters for small volume venting, gas and solvent filtration.

Larger Capacity Bucket Conveyor

Larger Capacity Bucket Conveyor

3 hours ago | Products

The mid-size Elecon™ bucket conveyor and elevator system from Gough Econ, Inc. can convey material in three different directions.

Low Maintenance Ball Valves

Low Maintenance Ball Valves

4 hours ago | Products

The Swagelok® 60 series ball valve offers a proven cycle life and steam tolerance.

Rig Explodes Off LA Coast, Oil Spreading

Rig Explodes Off LA Coast, Oil Spreading

5 hours ago | News

Another oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, spreading a mile-long oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (and CFATS) by Luke Simpson

Dec 17 2009

Chemical and water facilities are high on the current administration's list of security priorities, with the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009 under review by lawmakers. The bill would broaden federal juristiction over facility secutiry, and would also make inherently safer

Elevated CO2 increases plant uptake of organic and inorganic N in the desert shrub Larrea tridentata.

Aug 29

Resource limitations, such as the availability of soil nitrogen (N), are expected to constrain continued increases in plant productivity under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)). One potential but under-studied N source for supporting increased plant growth under...

Autocatalysis and organocatalysis with synthetic structures.

Aug 7

The discovery of ribozymes led to the proposal of an RNA world, where a single type of molecule was supposedly capable of self-replication and chemical catalysis. We show here that both autocatalysis and organocatalysis can be engineered into a synthetic structure. The compound...

A chemical genetic screen for modulators of exocytic transport identifies inhibitors of a transport mechanism linked to GTR2 function.

Aug 5

Membrane and protein traffic to the cell surface is mediated by partially redundant pathways that are difficult to perturb in ways that yield a strong phenotype. Such robustness is expected in a fine-tuned process, regulated by environmental cues, that is required for...

Dynamics of the rapsyn scaffolding protein at the neuromuscular junction of live mice.

Aug 4

The efficacy of synaptic transmission depends on the maintenance of a high density of neurotransmitter receptors and their associated scaffold proteins in the postsynaptic membrane. While the dynamics of receptors has been extensively studied, the dynamics of the intracellular...

Active Listening Really Pays Off

Active Listening Really Pays Off

Sep 1

Companies should take note when consumers speak, rather than merely making eye contact. Otherwise, consumers may look for someone who listens.

Renewable Chemicals: How Big, How Soon?

Renewable Chemicals: How Big, How Soon?

Aug 31

Growth in the renewable chemicals is being driven by factors such as a strong pipeline of novel products, government policies, energy prices, consumer awareness and concerns for global warming.

Keeping your Reputation Stainless

Keeping your Reputation Stainless

Aug 30

Maintaining clean food preparation facilities helps ease food poisoning concerns and keep food companies’ reputations — as well as the public — safe.

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Iraq's Ambitious Oil Plan

Sep 1 | Video

As the American combat mission draws to a close, Iraq is trying to dramtically increase oil production to 12 million barrels a day.

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Underwater Robots Saved the Day

Aug 11 | Video

The remotely operated vehicles used by BP in the Gulf were an indispensable underwater workforce.

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Solid-Liquid Injection System

Aug 12 | Video

How an inline high-shear mixer uses a solid-liquid injection system to achieve better powder dispersion than conventional eductive systems.

Hot Work is Deadly

Hot Work is Deadly

Aug 5 | Video

Explosions that occur when workers are welding, cutting or grinding are a weekly occurrence, prompting the CSB to issue guidelines for effective hazard evaluation and gas monitoring.