Louisiana Tech researchers help find new sub-atomic particle
...ade b is produced in high-energy proton-antiproton collisions at Fermilab's Tevatron device. Physicist Robin Staffin, associate director for high-energy physics for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, said, "Knowing the mass of the cascade b baryon gives scientists information they need in order t...Argonne's Joachimiak and Rosenbaum honored with the 2007 Compton Award
... changes in x-ray wavelengths resulting from x-ray collisions with electrons, the so-called Compton effect. This important discovery in 1922 confirmed the dual nature (wave and particle) of electromagnetic radiation. ...Biologically inspired sensors can augment sonar, vision system in submarines
...ect and track moving underwater targets, and avoid collisions with moving or stationary objects. The artificial lateral line consists of an integrated linear array of micro fabricated flow sensors, with the sizes of individual sensors and spacings between them matching those of their biological counterpart. "By...New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
...tions, could avert some of the thousands of annual collisions between birds and aircraft, military and civilian." (Photos of aircraft bird strikes: see http://wildlife.pr.erau.edu/Pictures2.htm ) In a few years, field researchers, indeed many interested citizens, could employ hand-held DNA devices for near...Always keeping a safe distance
...nages to carry its load to its destination without collisions (PNAS, 24 October 2006). Cells are very similar to the Port of Hamburg: goods and commodities arrive, have to be classified, temporarily stored and subsequently dispatched. In both small and large cells, it is very important to avoid backups and c...New technique boosts size of proteins that can be analyzed
.... Then they are hit by air molecules in low-energy collisions to keep the protein from folding up; then they are slammed with air molecules in high-energy collisions to dissociate the protein. Next, the mass spectrometer weighs any surviving protein and its pieces s...High-tech equipment may help reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions
...effective the system is in reducing animal-vehicle collisions will be evaluated over the next two years. The t...s United States and Europe. One Swiss study showed collisions with large animals were reduced 82 percent in locations with animal-detection systems. Animal det...Researchers find not all drugs are equal in treating teen drivers with ADHD
...appear in the Sept. issue of Pediatrics. "Car collisions are two to four times more likely to occur among teens with ADHD. Past studies have shown that stimulants commonly used to treat ADHD can help improve driving performance among this group," said Daniel Cox, Ph.d., lead author and professor of psychia...... shows how this pulling motion in combination with collisions between different filaments can give rise to a spontaneous ordering into a parallel arrangement of filaments as demonstrated in a simulation snapshot in Figure 1. This ordering of filaments into parallel patterns is very similar to the ordering of ro...Whiplash injuries -- are they caused by startle reflexes?
...gineers & Scientists, exposed subjects to rear-end collisions that were sometimes accompanied by loud sounds. They showed that a significant component of the muscle reaction in a first collision like the unexpected one on the roads arises through being startled by the abrupt motion and loud sound of the impac...Biological motors sort molecules one by one on a chip
...n a determined direction and were not dislodged by collisions of the motor carpet. PhD student Martin van den Heuvel, master student Martijn de Graaff and groupleader Professor Cees Dekker have for the first time achieved to control and address individual microtubules. An important step in this was to allow m...Lunar rocks suggest meteorite shower
... 100-million year interval possibly the result of collisions in the asteroid belt with comets coming from just ...o the planets, or smashed into cosmic dust through collisions with other objects. The discovery of this apparent spike in meteorite activity suggests to the autho...Biggest physics meeting of the year
... often model economic interactions as if they were collisions of atoms in gases: one agent, or atom, gains from the interaction, while the other loses. This means they can use equations drawn from thermodynamics to predict distribution patterns of wealth in various countries, for example. Victor Yakovenko (Univ...2005 AAAS ISC Award goes to a team of Russian and American scientists
...to protecting the International Space Station from collisions with floating objects and navigating satellites. Dr. Cefola is a lecturer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aero-Astro Department and an independent consultant, with over 30 years experience in the Aerospace industry. He is a mechanical e...18 million hours of supercomputing time awarded to 15 teams for large-scale scientific computing
...rial properties improved simulations of molecular collisions which can be used to study a wide range of scientific problems development of computing tools to improve computer visualizations and animations improved understanding of water and how light affects water in biological systems computing the structu...Sonography valuable in determining surgery in peroneal nerve injuries in the knee
...ee dislocation is common, especially in high-speed collisions or sports injuries. "Because of its superficial course and proximity to the underlying bone, the peroneal nerve is susceptible to direct injury during contact sports and to indirect injury during knee trauma," said the authors. Clinically, the nerve ...Conference to set deer-vehicle crash research agenda
...d only about 19,000 location-specific deer-vehicle collisions to the police. "This type of underreporting of deer-vehicle collisions is typical throughout the United States," says Knapp. Four years ago, in an attempt to reach a large...Sudden change in social status triggers genetic response in male fish, study finds
...other for the right to reproduce. From the head-on collisions between bighorn rams to the ritualized wrestling matches of male rattlesnakes, combat is often the key to reproductive success. But now scientists studying a species of African cichlid fish have discovered that low-ranking male cichlids can quickly ...North Atlantic right whales headed toward extinction
...lacialis ), is on a path toward extinction due to collisions with ships and entanglements in fishing gear, acco...ut of 50 reported dead right whales were killed by collisions with vessels, and at least six confirmed deaths were from fishing gear entanglements. There were als...Endangered North Atlantic right whale study says population in crisis
...ced constant threats from human activities, mainly collisions with ships and entanglement in fishing gear. In c...uman activities. At least 19 were killed by vessel collisions and at least six by entanglement in fishing gear. In addition, there were 61 confirmed reports of wh...