Applied Physics

Biofilms: How Bacteria Survive Hostile Environments

Using an innovative device with microscopic chambers, researchers have gleaned important new information about how bacteria survive in hostile environments by forming antibiotic-resistant communities called biofilms. These biofilms play key roles in cystic ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2007 - 6:03pm

Tropical Birds Confirm Darwin: Separate Species Can Be Produced In The Same Place

Whereas most birds are sole proprietors of their nests, some tropical species “time share” together – a discovery that helps clear up a 150-year-old evolutionary mystery, says Queen’s University Biology professor Vicki Friesen. The Queen’s-led internationa ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2007 - 12:32am

Atmel Launches Low-Cost Starter Kit For CAP Customizable Microcontroller

SAN JOSE, California, November 14 /PRNewswire/--- Facilitates Low-Cost, No-Risk Evaluation of CAP Capabilities Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the launch of the AT91CAP9A-STK Starter Kit for its CAP(TM) Customizable Microcontroller pro ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Nov 14 2007 - 1:03pm

Pictures May Not Lie But Doctored Photos Change History

Doctored photos of past public events can influence what people think they remember of the incident, as well as altering their attitudes and any subsequent responses, according to research published today in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. Three ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2007 - 11:53pm

Connecting Wind Farms To Each Other Can Make It More Reliable, Says Study

Stanford University scientists say they can make wind power a steady, dependable source of electricity but it will require connecting wind farms throughout a given geographic area with new transmission lines, always a difficult sell for people who live in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2007 - 7:40pm

Draft Atomic Structure Of The Vault Shell, Pol3 Mutation Disrupts Organ Growth, And More

Researchers at UCLA, the California NanoSystems Institute, the David Geffen School of Medicine, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have modeled the structure of the largest cellular structure ever crystallized, suggesting ways to engineer the particle ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2007 - 4:30am

Brain Patterns Of Anorexic Women Different

Even after more than a year of maintaining a normalized body weight, young women who recovered from anorexia nervosa show vastly different patterns of brain activity compared to similar women without the eating disorder, Walter H. Kaye, M.D., professor of ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2007 - 12:51am

Between Water And Rock, A New Field Of Nanoparticle Science

Water chemistry and mineralogy are scientific fields that have been around long enough to develop extensive knowledge and technologies. The boundary of water and rock, however, is not a thin wet line but the huge new field of nanoparticle science. Scientis ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2007 - 11:30am

A Sperm Model For Powering Nanotech Devices

The biological pathway that powers sperm to swim long distances could be harnessed to nanotech devices, releasing drugs or performing mechanical functions inside the body, according to a presentation at the American Society for Cell Biology’s 47th Annual m ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2007 - 12:20pm

Tech: Sculpting 3-D Microparticles With Light

MIT engineers have used ultraviolet light to sculpt three-dimensional microparticles that could have many applications in medical diagnostics and tissue engineering. For example, they could be designed to act as probes to detect certain molecules, such as ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2007 - 3:53pm