Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
... immediate environment. Also aboard is a radiation detector called the Standard Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM), used to investigate the energetic particles responsible for the polar auroras, which during the last three years has made it possible to better model the radiation environment around Earth. A...Tiny paddle oscillator senses the mass of a virus
... even counted. Ilic speculates that a simple field detector for pathogens -- the much-heralded "laboratory on ...-- could be built by combining a paddle oscillator detector with a nanofluidic system that would bathe the paddles in a suspect sample, then automatically evacu...Nanotubes glow, even within biological cells
... digital camera containing indium gallium arsenide detector elements. Although long term studies on toxicity and biodistributions must be completed before nanotubes can be used in medical tests, the new findings indicate nanotubes could soon be useful as imaging markers in laboratory in vitro studies, ...Development of portable infectious disease detector
...d it as the basis for a inexpensive male fertility detector that can be used in the home to measure sperm motility with an accuracy comparable to laboratory analyses. "I'm thrilled at how well the VIIBRE and PRIA technologies mesh," says John P. Wikswo, professor of biomedical engineering, physiology and phys...Muon opportunists: Detecting the unseen with natural probes
...for any surplus of muons striking a portion of its detector array compared to the background flux. That would ...he less likely the muons are to pass through. The detector consists of an array of thin wires immersed in a gas. A muon passing through the detector will creat...NJIT math professor helps navy detect subs; Explains global warming
...cally as it travels from an underwater source to a detector and processing equipment. Grants totaling upwards of $1million from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have supported her work since 1997. The multifaceted potential of Michalopoulou's research arises from ONR's interest in better techniques...Nuclear imaging of iodine uptake in mouse tissues
...e graduate student Jianguo Qian; and Jefferson Lab detector group scientists Stan Majewski, Vladimir Popov, Mark Smith and Drew Weisenberger....Researchers find gene that may be at root of potato blight
...in Wooster . "If you take a gun through the metal detector at an airport, the alarms go off," he said. "This gene (Avr3a) sends a signal alerting the plant that it is infected by the pathogen." Phytophthora infestans is the pathogen that causes late blight. For decades, controlling this disease has involved...New NIST method improves accuracy of spectrometers
...y-light signal for every element (or pixel) of the detector array for every wavelength of light. The matrix then was used to correct the instrument's output signals for stray light. The method is simple and fast enough to be incorporated into an instrument's software to perform real-time stray-light correctio......o the naked eye. Using a portable light source and detector technology, the researchers can differentiate minute differences in leaf colors - indicators of over- or under-fertilization, crop-nutrient levels and perhaps even disease. The researchers hope their tractor-mountable N-Checker (for "nitrogen-checker...NASA develops a 'nugget' to search for life in space
...a-ray signal for that element, which the gamma-ray detector then analyzes. It's also possible to plot the location of the elements. After this process, information can then be turned into an image of the elements within the rock. By seeing images of certain existing elements, scientists could tell whether a...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2005
...diode, electromechanical positioning system, light detector and signal processing electronics. The surveillance system, which creates high-resolution reflection maps instead of visual images, can sense extremely small changes in light signals. This allows it to detect movement of items within the target area....New method shows mushrooms a top source for one antioxidant
...performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), a UV-VIS detector and mass spectroscopy, instruments normally used in analytical chemistry. ...Discovery that bacterium is phosphate gourmet key clue to what makes it most social of bacteria
...nal partial pathway also acts as a phosphate level detector - giving the bacterium even more tools to employ as a phosphate gourmet. Dr Whitworth also has evidence that the surprising extent of interaction between the three and a half phosphate signalling pathways is also found among the other 140 plus signal...Making plant cells work like miniature factories
...arge ratios, and collected by an ion detector. The detector converts ion flux into a proportional electrical current. Finally, the magnitude of the electrical signals is recorded and plotted as a mass spectrum. The ability to sort and detect these ions at cellular-scale quantities is where the team hopes to f......ts such as IceCube, a one cubic kilometer neutrino detector currently being built beneath the ice of Antarctica. Such a result would require physicists to rethink popular theories including string theory and quantum loop gravity. It would also mean that the physics of the early universe was fundamentally diff...Two Sandia microChemLab technologies soon to be checking for toxins in the nation's water supplies
...column can be purchased off the shelf, but the SAW detector is at the heart of the microChemLab," Mowry says. "The goal by the end of summer is to replace the commercial separation column with a Sandia microfabricated column made using micro-fabrication technology to reduce the power needed and increase perfo...... sample structure. It's much like sweeping a metal detector over the ground to map out the location of a buried pipe the rising and falling pitch of the metal detector results because the hidden metal changes the way the detector circuit reacts. Conventional optical m...Study in Royal Society journal on link between creativity and mating success
...Biological SciencesContinued The human brain is a detector of chemosensorily transmitted HLA-class I-similarity in same- and opposite-sex relations by Dr. BM Pause, Dr. K Krauel, Dipl.-Psych. C Schrader, Dipl.-Phys. B Sojka, Dr. E Westphal, Prof. W Mller-Ruchholtz and Prof. R Ferstl (rspb.2005.3342) Findings...Max Planck researchers win part of Descartes Research Prize 2005
...ic System (H.E.S.S.) -- the world's most sensitive detector of high-energy gamma rays -- researchers looked at the central part of the Milky Way galaxy with unprecedented precision. They discovered a number of gamma-ray sources. Such high-energy radiation is difficult to find; even from a strong source, only ...