News articles tagged with 'laboratory'
Livermore and Russian scientists propose new names for elements 114 and 116
— 2 Dec 2011 10:17 | ChemistryThe International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today recommended new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table…
Technology transfer and postdoc entrepreneurs
— 5 Oct 2010 05:10 | TechnologyPost-doctoral researchers see their role as being vital in technology transfer where scientific findings become useful to the local economy, but most have little interest in running…
Genomes of 2 popular research strains of E. coli sequenced
— 21 Oct 2009 11:33 | BiologyAn international team of researchers from the United States, Korea, and France has sequenced and analysed the genomes of two important laboratory strains of E. coli bacteria, one used…
Eric Isaacs named director of Argonne National Laboratory
— 12 Mar 2009 13:30 | TechnologyEric D. Isaacs, a prominent University of Chicago physicist and senior administrator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has been selected to become the…
Collaboration of soloists makes the best science
— 4 Dec 2008 22:42 | TechnologyFor the success of a major research university, which is better: large, well-funded laboratory empires with many investigators working toward the same end, or the individual scientist…
Bone cancer treatment ineffective, despite promising laboratory data
— 11 Nov 2008 20:44 | HealthEwing sarcoma is the second most common type of primary bone cancer seen in children and young adults. Patients with relapsed or refractory Ewing sarcoma have a poor outcome with conventional…
Arizona State University creates Solar Power Laboratory
— 15 Jul 2008 13:31 | TechnologyArizona State University is strengthening its commitment to boost Arizona's economic development prospects in the renewable energy industry by establishing the Solar Power Laboratory…
Researchers design first optical pacemaker for laboratory research
— 28 May 2008 14:03 | HealthThe world's first optical pacemaker is described in an article published in Optics Express, the Optical Society's open-access journal. A team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan…
Full spectrum of chemistry to be served by state-of-the-art building
— 3 May 2008 19:49 | ChemistryIt took four years of planning and another two-and-a-half years of construction, but the wait was well worth it: Florida State University is celebrating the grand opening of a new,…
Countdown to Columbus launch
— 6 Dec 2007 19:42 | AstronomyThe European Columbus laboratory was scheduled to launch on board Space Shuttle Atlantis later today. The STS-122 mission to the International Space Station is due to lift-off from…