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Tracking forest threats

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Alerts from an early warning system developed in part by DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help protect forests across the U.S. from the threats of insects, disease and wildfire. Led by the USDA Forest Service, the multi-agency project uses h…

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Oldest objects in solar system indicate a turbulent beginning

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LIVERMORE, Calif. — Scientists have found that calcium, aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs), some of the oldest objects in the solar system, formed far away from our sun and then later fell back into the mid-plane of the solar system.
The findings m…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Physics & Mathematics, Space, Technology

NIST, Food Marketing Institute co-host webinar on ensuring accurate net weights in retail

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A reliable and trustworthy system of weights and measures is vital for economic activity. Maintaining that system requires constant vigilance, and that’s where the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Weights and Measures Division (…

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Research provides new findings on drug delivery with nanoparticles

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Researchers have over time been able to show that medicine designed at nanoscale offers unprecedented opportunities for targeted treatment of serious diseases such as cancer. However, now research also shows that the body’s immune system plays a sig…

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Improved method developed to locate ships in storms

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There are already systems that detect ships at sea, but a group of engineers from the UAH, led by the researcher Raúl Vicen, has introduced a new development, involving “the use of artificial intelligence techniques and improvements in the te…

Categories Blog Entry, Brain & Behavior, Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Natural (born) killers: What do they really do?

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Our immune systems contain three fundamentally different types of cell: B-cells, T-cells and the mysteriously named Natural Killer cells (NK cells), which are known to be involved in killing tumour cells and other infected cells. Experiments to in…

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Mimicking photosynthesis path to solar-derived hydrogen fuel

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Inexpensive hydrogen for automotive or jet fuel may be possible by mimicking photosynthesis, according to a Penn State materials chemist, but a number of problems need to be solved first.
“We are focused on the hardest way to make fuel,” said Thom…

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Back to the roots of the solar system

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Planets form in disks of dust and gas that surround young stars. A look at the birth places means a journey into the past of the earth and its siblings. Now, astronomers have been able to obtain detailed images of the protoplanetary disks of two s…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics, Space

Efficacy of tuberculosis vaccine enhanced

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Nele Festjens and Nico Callewaert of VIB and Ghent University have improved the efficacy of the vaccine for tuberculosis. The new vaccine affords – as already proven in mice – better protection against the disease. The development of a new tubercul…

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How nature’s patterns form

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When people on airplanes ask Alan Newell what he works on, he tells them “flower arrangements.”
He could also say “fingerprints” or “sand ripples” or “how plants grow.”
“Most patterns you see, including the ones on sand dunes or fish or t…

Categories Blog Entry, Life & Non-humans

The NIST role in role-based control: A 20th anniversary appraisal

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What NIST-led innovation is estimated to have saved U.S. industry $6.1 billion over the past 20 years? Well, probably several, but, perhaps surprisingly, a new economics study* points to the development of “role-based access control,” a computer-sec…

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Choose less contaminating products thanks to eco-labeling

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Ensuring the sustainability of the products we use is a fundamental challenge for society, and is becoming ever more important for consumers and companies. A researcher from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) has come up with an ec…

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