A quasiparticle collider
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 16, 2016 -
In the early 1900s, Ernest Rutherford shot alpha particles onto gold foils and concluded from their scattering properties that atoms contain their mass in a very small nucleus. A hundred years later, modern scientists took that concept to a new level, building the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to smash protons into each other, which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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AREVA awarded decontamination contract for Grafenrheinfeld Power Plant
Paris, France (SPX) May 16, 2016 -
AREVA NP has been selected by the utility E.ON Kernkraft to decontaminate the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, a pressurized water reactor design, located in Germany.
As part of the end of the reactor's activities, this operation will reduce the radiation level in the reactor pressure vessel, auxiliary systems and piping. This project is expected to be completed during the fourth quart ...
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Ingestible robot operates in simulated stomach
Boston MA (SPX) May 16, 2016 -
In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.
The new work, whi ...
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SeaPlanner is Awarded Contract for Rampion Offshore Wind Farm
London, UK (SPX) May 16, 2016 -
SeaPlanner has been selected as the system to support construction of the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. SeaPlanner will provide the Vessel and Traffic Management System (VTMS), which will be operated from the marine coordination centre based at Newhaven, and will be tracking coverage for the offshore site, the export cable route, construction base, and all vessels and teams at work in those locati ...
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Paper gets 'smart' with drawn-on, stenciled sensor tags
Seattle WA (SPX) May 16, 2016 -
A piece of paper is one of the most common, versatile daily items. Children use it to draw their favorite animals and practice writing the A-B-Cs, and adults print reports or scribble a hasty grocery list. Now, connecting real-world items such as a paper airplane or a classroom survey form to the larger Internet of Things environment is possible using off-the-shelf technology and a pen, sticker ...
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Innovative traffic interchanges help drivers avoid crashes, save lives
Columbia MO (SPX) May 16, 2016 -
The state of Missouri is a pioneer in adopting Diverging Diamond Interchanges (DDIs) named for their innovative design. At these interchanges drivers are diverted to the left side of the road prior to merging onto an interstate, freeway or highway. The first such interchange in the U.S. opened in Springfield, Mo. in 2009. Recent studies from the University of Missouri have found that these unusu ...
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Silver could be the key to gold-standard flexible gadgets
Surrey, UK (SPX) May 16, 2016 -
Research published in the journals Materials Today Communications and Scientific Reports has described how silver nanowires are proving to be the ideal material for flexible, touch-screen technologies while also exploring how the material can be manipulated to tune its performance for other applications. Currently, touch screen devices mainly rely on electrodes made from indium tin oxide (ITO), ...
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