Science & Technology
- <p>NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought.</p>
- <p>The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è-developed system that was the first to intercept a "supercell" thunderstorm -- will be exhibited at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building, located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets NE in Washington, D.C.</p>
- <p>A surprising new discovery by the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è and the University of California, Davis regarding the division of tiny "power plants" within cells known as mitochondria has implications for better understanding a wide variety of human diseases and conditions due to mitochondrial defects.</p>
- <p>American pikas, the chirpy, potato-sized denizens of rocky debris in mountain ranges and high plateaus in western North America, are holding their own in the Southern Rocky Mountains, says a new ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è study.</p>
- <p>The ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è has partnered with the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., to bring to campus a state-of-the-art magnetic resonance scanner that will significantly enhance the neuroimaging capabilities on campus.</p>
- <p>Graphene, considered the most exciting new material under study in the world of nanotechnology, just got even more interesting, according to a new study by a group of researchers at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è.</p>
- <p>Fourteen graduate students from the Engineering for Developing Communities program at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è traveled abroad this summer to gain field experience in community development.</p>
- <p>A new ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è study indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming decades will likely cause increased wildfire activity in the southern half of South America.</p>
- <p>Researchers at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è are helping develop the next generation of the Internet -- a more mobile version -- and the campus's Office of Information Technology is using this new technology to provide wireless service on campus buses and in some labs and classrooms.</p>
- <p>Bacteria from fecal material -- in particular, dog fecal material -- may constitute the dominant source of airborne bacteria in Cleveland's and Detroit's wintertime air, says a new ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è study.</p>