Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
... the design of middleware to facilitate and enable instrument and infrastructure control, data generation and distributed storage, data assimilation and ocean simulation, analysis, visualization, and collaboration." The LOOKING project is emblematic of a growing focus on global, coastal and regional-scale obser...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...gations during 2004-05 of desert life. Zoe and its instrument payload are the result of the first year's research. "The project is going a step further by trying to understand if signatures of microbial life can be unambiguously detected remotely using a robotic platform," Cabrol said. "These robots and......e camera was a powerful nuclear magnetic resonance instrument capable of recording the positions of tagged protein atoms in relation to the forming HAP crystals. There are only a handful of labs capable of doing this, Shaw said, and there are more proteins than there are people to look at them all. The NMR data...Popular Science announces Third Annual 'Brilliant 10'
... frequencies, Gmachl made it possible for a single instrument to detect many different chemicals. Shine one of her lasers across a highway to a sensor on the other side, and you could create a detection system for noxious car emissions; installed in an airport walkway, such a laser could sense trace amounts of ...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
...y of Rhode Island scientists $345,000 to build and instrument a portable field laboratory for research and research training. As an NSF major research initiative, the award will be matched by $148,000 from the University of Rhode Island. The URI scientists who will initially use the field laboratory are geolog...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...rn Great Plains site in Oklahoma. Equipped with an instrument suite designed by Torn, this location has been called "possibly the best-instrumented site for regional carbon studies in the world." The resulting data, bridging scales from individual crops to the middle of the continent and from the ground surface...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...researcher Mengdawn Cheng, is a high-speed aerosol instrument that measures highly variable properties of airbor...rding the composition of the air particulates. The instrument provides more accurate and concise readings than conventional monitors and can be utilized either on...Maine-based biophysics institute gets funding for first US-based 4Pi nanoscale microscope
... within a cell in three dimensions. The first such instrument is now coming to the United States in 2005, thanks to a $732,624 National Science Foundation grant to a Maine interdisciplinary biophysical research program. The Institute for Molecular Biophysics brings together expertise in biophysics and engine...Protein fishing in America: The movie
...ein species. Lu's group has assembled an elaborate instrument at PNNL's W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. In the instrument, fluorescent-dye-tagged proteins are embedded in a gel and probed by a continuous-beam, or ultrafast, laser. The protein fluorescence fluctuates when molecules intera...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...ols that avoid some conventional pitfalls. One key instrument will be the Eye-in-the-Sea, which was designed by Dr. Widder. This unique camera system will be deployed on the seafloor using the submersible and left for 24-hour or longer intervals to film animals and activities using very low levels of infrared l...Endangered turtles' trek along ocean currents revealed by satellite
...lobal mission is over, results from Envisat's RA-2 instrument are being combined with similar data from the joint French-US Jason spacecraft and the US Navy's GFO. "The altimetry data has been very useful to our work because we have been able to check the turtles' trajectory against ocean currents," said P...An exotic grass kills trees by hijacking their water
...y how buffelgrass affects the trees, Eilts used an instrument called a pressure chamber to find out how much water stress the trees were experiencing. First he tested foothill palo verde trees surrounded by buffelgrass. The next year, he removed the grass from under some of those trees and repeated the experime...Something's fishy about new NIST food standard
...ratories can validate their analytical methods and instrument performance by using them to analyze the SRM and comparing their results to the NIST values. This is the first NIST SRM with certified values for three of the more toxic varieties of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). SRM 1946 also has a certified con...Urban heat islands make cities greener
...erate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the Terra satellite, Boston University, Boston, researchers discovered that city climates have a noticeable influence on plant growing seasons up to 10 kilometers (6 miles) away from a city's edges. Growing seasons in 70 cities in eastern North Am...Firefly compound lights up 'protein dance' in living animals
...ence of rapamycin. Using a commercially available instrument known as an in vivo bioluminescence camera, they found they could detect light from the luciferase fragments only when they injected the mice with rapamycin, causing the two proteins to interact. In mutations that disabled rapamycin's ability to bind...K-State professor combines love of teaching, research to examine eye development
...y a technique known as mass spectrometry, using an instrument recently purchased for general use with funds from...mich, profesors, department of biochemistry. "The instrument is so sensitive that types and structures of sugars present in a small portion of a single histologi...New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
...s' microcapillary cytometry technology enables the instrument to be highly compact, portable and low maintenance. Operation of the Guava assays is quite simple, with even novice users learning to use the EasyCD4 and EasyCD8 in less than a day. Testing requires only 10 microliters of whole blood per patient, mak...New space-borne instrument to track greenhouse gases, ozone destroyers, and other pollutants
BOULDER -- A powerful new instrument heading to space this Saturday is expected to send back long-sought answers about greenhouse gases, atmospheric cleansers and pollutants, and the destruction and recovery of the ozone layer. Only a cubic yard in size but laden with technical wizardr...ORNL adds three R&D 100s to DOE lab-leading total
..., direct vapor sensing, low power consumption (the instrument uses a 9-volt battery), less than one-second response time, stability, compact size, and low cost. SniffEx will have applications in counterterrorism, law enforcement, airport safety and humanitarian efforts such as landmine removal....NASA data shows hurricanes help plants bloom in 'ocean deserts'
...n 1998 and 2001. Ocean color data from the SeaWiFS instrument on the SeaStar satellite were used to analyze levels of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants. The satellite images showed tiny microscopic ocean plants, called phytoplankton, bloomed following the storms. "Some parts of the ocean are like desert...