Cockroach-like robot leads new research effort
... know, for example, that the body's center of mass bounces along like a pogo stick, which is embodied in the ... up walls; and the Stanford-built Sprawlita, which bounces five body lengths at a time thanks to six piston-driven legs. But, he admits, a biologist and...Clemson researcher places hope on pushy photons
...otball is smaller, harder, shaped differently and bounces differently. Compared to normal cells, cancer cells are smaller, more dense and wrinkled, like a raisin. Gao proposes that cancer cells will react differently in response to his laser-beam system. Early detection of cancer is a critical indicator o...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...lts from Envisat's Radar Altimetry-2 (RA-2), which bounces thousands of radar pulses each second off the sea surface in order to detect ocean eddies and currents. "Our model for forecasting has a maximum five km mesh size, which is demanding in terms of computing power, but which we need to resolve surface ...Speedy elephants use a biomechanical trick to 'run' like Groucho
...ing gait in which the limb actually compresses and bounces back with a spring." The researchers' kinematic me...wings like an inverted pendulum (as in walking) or bounces like a spring (running). "That's a problem because the force platforms that are generally available ...Science picks -- leads, feeds and story seeds (February 2003)
...of shallow rivers. The acoustic instrument, which bounces sound waves off the river bottom, can be coupled with radio modems and hand-held computers and is enabling technicians to get out of the stream, ensuring greater safety and providing more accurate and more frequent data for some stream conditions. U...Science picksLeads, feeds and story seeds (December 2002)
...the center of the Earth. Along that voyage energy bounces against deep geologic formations, much like in a giant pinball machine and is bounced or reflected into areas at great distance from the epicenter of the earthquake. That's why ground water in Pennsylvania was showing the effects of the power releas...Ramoplanin beats antibiotic resistance by fighting the battle on its own terms
...bility of the antibiotic to bind. Vancomycin just bounces off the cell surface and the bacteria goes unscathed, explained McCafferty. Ramoplanin, however, attaches itself to an essential sugar within the peptidoglycan molecule. This interaction would be much more difficult for evolutionary resistance mecha...Using brain activity to identify risk for disorders
...is like going through a pinball machine. The ball bounces off of a number of different risk and protective factors. In the end, the accumulation of all of these 'encounters,' plus intangible factors such as free will, religion, culture, and family lead to a final phenotype. High risk doesn't equal alcohol...Virtual reality tool quantifies physics of a doctor's touch
...' feedback system and show how it deforms and then bounces back when the force is withdrawn." The work is based on a solid understanding of the physics behind what happens when pressure is applied to different parts of the human body. "While the physician is doing a palpation on a patient, the computer -- ...Cincinnati chemists develop microsensors for nuclear waste cleanup, medical applications
...f interest. "If we can build a device where these bounces are continuous all along this,then that greatly enhances thedetection capabilities," said Ross. The MIRD can detect compounds in concentrations as low as 10 micromolar (onemolecule in a million). In lab tests, the newer design was 1,000 times more s...... is the scattering that occurs when solarradiation bounces off particles in clear air. The indirect effects haveto do with sulfates' interactions with clouds. Globally, aerosols are an important source of nuclei around which clouddroplets can condense, and in the tropics they are the chief source. Themore cl...