January 27, 2010 | Posted by admin
A team funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is returning to Haiti this week to investigate the cause of the January 12, magnitude 7 earthquake there.
Categories: Environment | 
Tags: aftershock, aftershocks, assistant director, continuation, earthquake, earthquakes, geological data, geologists, geosciences, initial quake, likelihood, magnitude, national science foundation, nearby faults, port au prince, port au prince haiti, purdue university, tim killeen | 
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January 27, 2010 | Posted by admin
Contrary to prevailing wisdom, a new study from plant biologists at UC Davis shows that proteins of the Hsp70 family do indeed chaperone proteins across the membranes of chloroplasts, just as they do for other cellular structures.
Categories: Health & Medicine, Science & Nanotechnology | Tags: biologist, cells, cellular structures, chaperone, chaperone proteins, chaperones, chloroplast, chloroplasts, Davis, DNA, Energy, Foundation, laboratory mouse, Lan-Xin Shi, living organism, mitochondria, national science foundation, organism, photosynthesis, Physcomitrella, plant biologists, plant biology, plant cell, protein, protein levels, shi, Steven Theg, t cell, u s department, uc davis | No Comments »
December 28, 2009 | Posted by admin
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The sight of a cockroach scurrying for cover may be nauseating, but the insect is also a biological and engineering marvel, and is providing researchers at Oregon State University with what they call “bioinspiration” in a quest to build the world’s first legged robot that is capable of running effortlessly over rough [...]
Categories: Technology & Engineering | Tags: cockroach, cockroaches, computing power, corvallis, energy storage, guinea hen, john schmitt, legged robot, manufacturing engineering, muscle action, national science foundation, nerve impulse, oregon state university, perturbations, professional journal, reflex control, remarkable abilities, rough ground, rough terrain | No Comments »
December 17, 2009 | Posted by admin
Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NOAA have recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered–West Mata Volcano–describing high-definition video of the undersea eruption as “spectacular.”
Categories: Environment | Tags: american geophysical union, biologist, carbo, carbon dioxide, chemical oceanographer, chief scientist, cold seawater, deep ocean, Discovered, Earth, Environment, environmental laboratory, erupting volcano, lava bubbles, lava flows, lavas, marine geologist, microbes, molten lava, national science foundation, noaa, ocean islands, percent, research, resing, scientists, stem, submarine volcanoes, underwater robot | No Comments »
December 11, 2009 | Posted by admin
The world of IT pursues its race for performance. CMOSAIC could boost the computing performance of central processors by a factor 10 while consuming less energy. The IBM Research Laboratory has joined EPFL and ETH Zurich – the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology – in this project of national scope supported by the Swiss [...]
Categories: Science & Nanotechnology, Technology & Engineering | Tags: central heating system, cubic centimetre, ecole polytechnique fédérale, ecole polytechnique fédérale de lausanne, epfl, eth zurich, federal institutes, functional density, future computers, human brain, institutes of technology, john r thome, lausanne switzerland, liquid coolant, national science foundation, national scope, sister organisation, snsf, swiss national science, swiss national science foundation | No Comments »