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Securing Our Homeland
White Paper Around the globe, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is training border enforcement officials to thwart the smuggling of chemical, biological or nuclear materials across foreign borders. PNNL also are instructing emergency first... [03 Jul 2008]
Perceived Risks Versus Actual Risks: Managing Hazards through Negotiation
White Paper They also have lower levels of a brain chemical called DBH, and higher levels of gonadal hormone. Brain scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health recently sought to remedy this deficiency. [03 Jul 2008]
IBM to use DNA to shrink chip size
News In self-assembly, the intrinsic chemical and physical properties of molecules, along with environmental factors, coax the raw materials into complex structures. DNA consists of specific chemical bases that bind and react in somewhat predictable... [21 Feb 2008]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo The fuel cell converts the chemical energy produced by mixing hydrogen and oxygen from the air to churn out the electrical energy needed to power the servers with three 10kW cells. Scientists are coming up with novel ways to power gadgets... [19 Nov 2007]
Wafer-thin battery packs on the horizon?
News According to New Scientist magazine, the team made the carbon nanotube supercapacitors flexible by first growing the nanotubes on top of a silicon substrate "using standard chemical vapour-deposition". [20 Aug 2007]
Will IT bring about the end of the world?
News He told The Independent newspaper: "Think of the control systems for chemical plants, railway lines or manufacturing facilities. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - famed for its Doomsday Clock which now sits at seven minutes to midnight - is... [02 Jun 2006]
Grid seeks bird flu cure
News Scientists are now reviewing results from the computer screening to predict which compounds and chemical fragments would be most effective at blocking the virus if it mutated, according to Pparc. Scientists in the UK and Asia have deployed a... [05 May 2006]
IBM chief gets glimpse of what's to come
News Server accelerator chips like those from Azul Systems and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research are a type of application processor. The GTO is essentially a seven- to eight-hour presentation in which scientists from IBM's storied... [29 Mar 2006]
Roach robot to infiltrate insect societies?
News For the experiment, the researchers had to imitate the chemical signal of cockroaches, in InsBot, so the insects would respond as if it were real. Scientists in Lausanne, Switzerland, have successfully infiltrated a colony of roaches with a micro... [25 Jul 2005]
64-Bit Linux: Addressing Today's Research Computing Challenges
White Paper Specific topics addressed include: Recent solutions addressing computational problems for life and chemical researchers - what worked and what didn't, The benefits of the 64-bit Intel high-performance computing environment for scientists... [25 Feb 2004]
Thailand Advanced Cluster Computer Opens Worlds of Research
White Paper With systems such as AMATA, Thai scientists and engineers can now explore difficult tasks like analyzing chemical engineering processes, analyzing new drugs, and developing models to track pollution in Thailand. [25 Feb 2004]
Intel in chip cancer detection research
News The chipmaker will construct a device, called a Raman Bioanalyser System, at the Seattle-based research organisation that will be able, ideally, to detect chemical anomalies in individual cells, which in turn could be used to flag diseases in... [23 Oct 2003]
Molecular storage technique takes first steps
News Researchers at Oklahoma University published details of their 'molecular photography' experiment in the 15 October issue of the Journal of Chemical Physics. In an experiment that could bring the computing world closer to an advanced method of data... [03 Dec 2002]
US energy department banks on Linux
News Scientists working for the department will look specifically at areas including geochemistry, biochemistry, chemical waste detection and genomics. The US Department of Energy has splashed out on an HP supercomputer running Linux to support its... [26 Apr 2002]
US boffins to paint PC screens onto any surface
News The boffins have designed polymer-based electro-optic ink which allows them to describe circuits and images based on the chemical reactions between the different compounds in the paints. Scientists in the US say they have invented a new form of... [11 Apr 2002]
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