'Lab on a Chip' Detects Human, Agricultural Contaminants
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in livestock.
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UA's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in livestock.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 19, 2010
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What can you learn from the 120 year-old body of a parasitoid wasp? Using material from museum collections, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology report that they can tell how males wasps ...
Evolution
Jul 19, 2010
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(AP) -- For decades, Motorola Inc.'s products told the story of the march of electronics into the hands of consumers: car radios in the 1930s, TVs in the 1940s and cell phones starting the 1980s.
Business
Jul 19, 2010
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(AP) -- A company working to send tourists on suborbital flights says it has tested its spacecraft with a crew for the first time.
Space Exploration
Jul 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 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, UC San Diego researcher. Floating glaciers ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 19, 2010
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(AP) -- Texas Instruments Inc.' second-quarter income and revenue jumped as demand continued to recover after the recession. The company predicted even better results in the new quarter.
Business
Jul 19, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first user experiments on the Soft X-ray instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source wrapped up last week. Research led by Andreas Scherz, a physicist at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy ...
General Physics
Jul 19, 2010
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Online retail giant Amazon said Monday that sales of electronic books for the Kindle have overtaken hardcover book sales.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 19, 2010
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How do you make a material that has the elasticity of a rubber band and the thermal insulation of a Styrofoam cup? Connect two distinct polymer chains - poly(isoprene) and poly(styrene) - end to end like a series of children's ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 19, 2010
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LSU Sociology Professors Matthew Lee and Troy Blanchard have conducted a survey to gain an understanding of the health impacts the ongoing Deepwater Horizon disaster is having on people living in Louisiana's coastal communities.
Environment
Jul 19, 2010
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