Items tagged with microscopic

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Pink Silicon Is the New Black Thursday, July 9th, 2009 - 10:22:46 - Anuradha Menon A material dubbed black silicon has shown great promise for making cheaper, more sensitive light detectors and imaging devices, while potentially... read more

Metal that Pumps Liquid Uphill Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 - 12:50:36 - Anuradha Menon In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now... read more

How the Inner Ear's Sensors are Made Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 - 16:39:12 - Anuradha Menon A UCLA study shows for the first time how microscopic crystals form sound and gravity sensors inside the inner ear. Located at the ends of cilia —... read more

Obscure Fungus Produces Diesel Components Friday, November 7th, 2008 - 12:02:24 - Anuradha Menon A wild fungus has been found to produce a variety of hydrocarbon components of diesel fuel. The harmless, microscopic fungus, known as Gliocladium... read more

Scientists Identify Memory Making Machinery Saturday, November 1st, 2008 - 16:11:06 - Anuradha Menon A major puzzle for neurobiologists is how the brain can modify one microscopic connection, or synapse, at a time in a brain cell and not affect the... read more

Unique 'Magnetic Death Star' Fossil Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 - 18:01:04 - Anuradha Menon An international team of scientists has discovered microscopic, magnetic fossils resembling spears and spindles, unlike anything previously seen... read more

Microscope on a Chip Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 - 16:10:21 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have turned science fiction into reality with their development of a super-compact... read more

Microscopic Clutch Puts Flagellum In Neutral Monday, June 23rd, 2008 - 12:30:33 - Ehud Rattner A tiny but powerful engine that propels the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through liquids is disengaged from the corkscrew-like flagellum by a protein... read more

Quantum Effects Shed Light on Hazy Images Sunday, March 30th, 2008 - 10:14:01 - Ehud Rattner Studying the quantum realm can be illuminating in more senses than one. The special relationship between entangled photons of light could help us... read more

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