American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 8, 2007
...el of a Star Trek tricoder-type device a handheld instrument for scanning alien environments and use it to che...orrespondent Marc Reisch, explains that scientific instrument makers are in the midst of an effort to expand their traditional markets, moving instruments like ma...1 of deep ocean's most turbulent areas has big impact on climate
...s surface, St. Laurent and crew used a custom-made instrument called the "turbulence profiler," outfitted with special sensors. The turbulence profiler measured the output using watts, the same unit of measurement as printed on light bulbs, St. Laurent said. In the undersea mountain passage where we intenti...European Science Foundation's Forward Look reaches out beyond the endless frontiers
...opean Science Foundation (ESF)s strategic flagship instrument that aims to formulate science agendas and policies with Europes best interest in mind, has initiated and nurtured 13 foresight exercises that help develop medium- to long-term perspectives on future directions of multidisciplinary research in Europe...Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
...y heavyweights Honeywell and General Electric. The instrument offeringsRF ValProbe by GE and OneWireless by Honeywellrepresent a new generation of wireless technology that taps industry-standard approaches to radio frequency identification, or RFID, and wireless sensors for advanced monitoring of manufacturing ...ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference
...e field of observing the Earth from space. A novel instrument has been developed that is capable of deriving bot...e field of observing the Earth from space. A novel instrument has been developed that is capable of deriving both soil moisture and ocean salinity by capturing im...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 18, 2007
...y exposed the imprinted gels to a highly sensitive instrument that used a beam of infrared light and an array detector to obtain images of the collected fingerprints. The method revealed valuable chemical information about the composition of the prints, potentially giving information about the individual dep...The origin of perennial water-ice at the South Pole of Mars
... South Pole. Early during the mission, the OMEGA instrument (Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer) on board Mars Express had already found previously undetected perennial deposits of water-ice. They are sitting on top of million-year old layered terrains and provide strong evidence for a re...New imaging method clarifies nutrient cycle
...ww.nature.com/ismej. A state of the art NanoSIMS instrument (short for nanometer-scale, secondary ion mass spe...reshwater organism Anabaena oscillarioides. This instrument is allowing us to look at how these two elements are being taken up and are being transported around...SNM initiatives supported by inclusions in NAS Report on competitiveness of US chemistry research
... human disease; future needs for computational and instrument development for more precise localization of radiotracers in normal and aberrant cell physiologies; national impediments to the efficient entry of promising new radiopharmaceutical compounds into clinical feasibility studies and strategies to overcom...Scientists ponder plant life on extrasolar Earthlike planets
...on extrasolar planets. One features a space-based instrument that will make measurements in the near infrared region; the other gives longer wavelength to get good biosignatures for things like methane and oxygen. Blankenship said that speculation about the natural world of extrasolar planets is at th...NIH awards nearly $21 million to fund cutting-edge research equipment
...al personnel, and post-award service contracts for instrument maintenance and operation. More information abou...ssion electron microscope will replace an outdated instrument at the NCRR-funded National Microscopy and Imaging Research Resource, enabling 3-D imaging of sectio...Identification of genetic risk factor for coeliac disease promises improved treatment
...n a haystack. Currently genetic testing is a blunt instrument which can only narrow down the search to around one third of the general population. The study provides a road-map to enable discovery of further genetic risk factors predisposing to coeliac disease....ESA's water mission instrument passes test program
...n the field of remote sensing by employing a novel instrument called MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using A... of the Earth at a specific wavelength, this novel instrument is capable of observing both the moisture in soil and salt in the oceans. MIRAS will be the first-ev...Candidate research sites selected for the National Ecological Observatory Network
...te, as well as a variety of relocatable and mobile instrument systems. Relocatable tower systems will be deployed outside of the core sites for up to five years, then moved periodically. They will be used to expand measurements of variability and gather ecological data along elevation, precipitation, and lan...Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space
...etected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard ESAs environmental satellite, Envisat. The ability to monitor Sargassum globally will allow researchers to understand better the primary productivity of the ocean and better predict climate change. Using optical radiance data from the Medium...Magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire
...e Magneto-Optical filters at Two Heights, or MOTH, instrument in Antarctica, and the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope on the Canary Islands. The observations gave detailed insights into how some of the trapped waves and their pent-up energy manage to leak out through magnetic "cracks" in the photosphere, sendi...MIT researchers probe bones' tiny building blocks
...dical standpoint," Ortiz said. Using a table-top instrument called a molecular force probe, which uses an extremely small probe tip to poke out a tiny fragment of bone, Ortiz and colleagues mapped the stiffness of bovine shin bone into complex, colorful, two-dimensional contour maps similar to those used by g...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...tate.edu ) will describe the basic science of each instrument family: strings, brasses, woodwinds, piano and per...re significantly affected by the thicknesses of an instrument wall and the exact materials of which the wall is made. Many acousticians had assumed that the main...Woods Hole Research Center scientists using remote sensing tools to predict bird species richness
...ssistant who is working on the project, adds, "The instrument we use to acquire the lidar data, known as the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor (LVIS), collects literally millions of data points within a small area, and using this data we can actually construct 3-dimensional images of canopy height, elevation, com......t's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument working in Full Resolution Mode to acquire images in polar orbit at an altitude of 800 km with a spatial resolution of 300 metres. The global composites are produced by processing MERIS images together in a standardised way. Thirteen out of 15 MER...