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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:40:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: MIT Researchers Create Fibers That Can Detect and Produce Sound
MIT Researchers Create Fibers That Can Detect and Produce Sound
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:18:00 -0500
In the August issue of
Nature Materials, MIT Professor Yoel Fink, and his collaborators, announce a new milestone on the path to functional fibers: fibers that can detect and produce sound. Applications could include clothes that are themselves sensitive microphones, for capturing speech or monitoring bodily functions, and tiny filaments that could measure blood flow in capillaries or pressure in the brain.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:40:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Footloose Glaciers Crack Up
Footloose Glaciers Crack Up
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:17:00 -0500
Glaciers that lose their footing on the seafloor and begin floating behave very
erratically, according to a new study led by a Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego researcher.
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University of California, San Diego
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:40:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Nanotubes Pass Acid Test
Nanotubes Pass Acid Test
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:18:00 -0500
Rice University scientists have unveiled a new method
for dissolving half-millimeter-long carbon nanotubes in solution, a critical step toward the spinning of fibers from ultralong nanotubes. The breakthrough, which was reported this month in the online journal ACS Nano, is a promising development on the road to scalable methods for making strong, ultralight, highly conductive materials like the "armchair quantum wire."
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Rice University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:40:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Astronomers Discover an Unusual Cosmic Lens
Astronomers Discover an Unusual Cosmic Lens
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:18:00 -0500
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology and Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland have discovered the first known case of a distant galaxy being magnified by a quasar acting as a gravitational lens.
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California Institute of Technology
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:40:35 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Scientists Identify Nature's Insect Repellents
Scientists Identify Nature's Insect Repellents
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:19:00 -0500
Two compounds emitted by mosquito predators that make the
mosquitoes less inclined to lay eggs in pools of water may provide new environmentally friendly tactics for repelling and controlling disease-carrying insects.
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Rockefeller University
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