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TIMMI2 Images the Heart of the Orion Nebula
A new astronomical instrument, TIMMI2, has just been installed on the ESO 3.6-m telescope at La Silla. The first images have now been obtained and hold great promise for future research programmes with this facility. The Thermal Infrared MultiMode Instrument was built in a collaboration between ESO... view more (2001-03-30)

European Water Directive: Optical sensors detect minute amounts of pollutants
Minute amounts of organic pollutants-including oestrone-can now be detected in river water as a result of a new optical sensing instrument realised in a project funded by the EU's Environment Programme.   view more (2004-09-01)

Smiths Detection to launch a portable diagnostic system for foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu
Smiths Detection, part of the global technology business Smiths Group, today announces it is to launch a portable detection system that will enable veterinarians to carry out on-site diagnosis of animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth and avian flu.   view more (2007-10-15)

Research shows that time invested in practicing pays off for young musicians
A Harvard-based study published October 29 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, led by Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training-not only in tests of auditory... view more (2008-11-05)

High-Flying Balloons Begin Tracking Emerging Hurricanes
In a unique collaboration, U.S. and French researchers are launching large, specialized balloons into the stratosphere to drop nearly 300 instrument packages over wide swaths of Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.   view more (2006-09-01)

Tests show LLNL detection instrument can monitor the air for all major terrorist threat substances
Security and law enforcement officials may some day have a new ally - a universal detection system that can monitor the air for virtually all of the major threat agents that could be used by terrorists.   view more (2008-06-13)

Constructing unique analytical instrument for world famous oceanographic institute
Cox Analytical Systems AB, a spin-off company from Chalmers Institute of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, has just signed a contract with Southampton Oceanography Centre in England to construct an instrument for microradiographic and microchemical analysis of sediment cores. This means that a... view more (2002-09-02)

Earth-Moon observations from Venus Express
A recent check of the VIRTIS imaging spectrometer during the Venus Express commissioning phase has allowed its first remote-sensing data to be acquired, using Earth and the Moon as a reference.   view more (2005-11-29)

UCR-led research team detects 'top quark,' a basic constituent of matter
A group of 50 international physicists, led by UC Riverside's Ann Heinson, has detected for the first time a subatomic particle, the top quark, produced without the simultaneous production of its antimatter partner - an extremely rare event.   view more (2006-12-14)

New developments in biomarkers for epithelial ovarian cancer
With the genomic revolution radical improvement has been made in methods of detection of ovarian cancer.   view more (2007-11-30)

Road to AC voltage standard leads to important junction
After 10 years of research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled the world's first precision instrument for directly measuring alternating current (AC) voltages.   view more (2006-07-24)

Sight for sore eyes
An inventive breakthrough from the Applied Optics Group at the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) is set to revolutionise current methods of eye examinations. Professor David Jackson, Dr Adrian Podoleanu and Dr John Rogers, who gained his doctorate at Kent, have developed an instrument known as... view more (2002-03-13)

Scientists blow their own trumpet
Brass instrument makers could soon be using the latest technology to refine the manufacturing of trumpets and cornets. An improved way of taking internal measurements of musical instruments, published today in the Institute of Physics journal, Measurement Science and Technology, has been developed... view more (2002-04-16)

Computer-aided detection with computed radiography effective in detecting breast cancer
The use of computer-aided detection (CAD) with computed radiography (CR) is effective in the detection of breast cancer, according to a recent study conducted by radiologists at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC and iCAD in Nashua, NH.   view more (2007-05-07)

Life detection instrument passes key test on road to Mars
The dry, dusty, treeless expanse of Chile's Atacama Desert is the most lifeless spot on the face of the Earth, and that's why Alison Skelley and Richard Mathies joined a team of NASA scientists there earlier this month.   view more (2005-06-29)

Making music could be bad for your skin
Playing a musical instrument increases your risk of suffering from a variety of skin complaints, according to a study published this week in BMC Dermatology. These conditions can usually be averted by correcting your technique or by making slight alterations to your instrument. Dr. Thilo... view more (2004-04-15)

New technology opens the eyes of world experts
Leading international medical experts have visited the University of Kent at Canterbury (UKC) to make final preparations for transferring a revolutionary technology of diagnostic eye examination equipment to Asahikawa Medical College in Japan. Susumu Oshima and Toshio Murata from Nidek Japan... view more (2002-04-25)

Innovative acoustic guitar designed at Loughborough
Unlike traditional wooden acoustic guitars, the primary sound-generating components of this new instrument are constructed from plastics. Designer Owain Pedgley, a former PhD student at Loughborough who worked on the guitar in collaboration with leading English luthier Rob Armstrong, said,... view more (1999-11-09)

Biosensing nanodevice to revolutionize health screenings
One day soon a biosensing nanodevice developed by Arizona State University researcher Wayne Frasch may eliminate long lines at airport security checkpoints and revolutionize health screenings for diseases like anthrax, cancer and antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).   view more (2008-03-25)

Additional mammogram readers improve breast cancer detection
Mammogram readings by both radiologists and non-physician technologists improve breast cancer detection rates, according to a study in the July 24 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.   view more (2007-07-25)

Light and sound -- the way forward for better medical imaging
Detection and treatment of tumours, diseased blood vessels and other soft-tissue conditions could be significantly improved, thanks to an innovative imaging system being developed that uses both light and sound.   view more (2007-12-13)

LGC selects £500k Bruker Daltonics instrument to expand its mass spectrometry capability
LGC, the UK`s leading independent analytical laboratory providing chemical, biochemical and DNA analysis, has purchased a new Bruker Daltonics APEX III 47e Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer (FTMS). This instrument, with its exceptionally high mass accuracy and resolution, will be used to... view more (2002-06-10)

Long-Term ozone measurements from Space assured
The EUMETSAT Polar System, and the ESA METOP-1 Programme together form a co-operative venture between the two organisations, and lead to the launch of the first METOP satellite in mid-2003. The system provides operational meteorological data from polar orbiting satellites, to complement and... view more (2000-03-05)

Winds of 320 000 kilometres per hour on the Sun
The SUMER instrument on the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft has measured amazing wind speeds during its observations of the Sun. It sets a new record in its examination of two loops of gas arching in the solar atmosphere, where NASA`s TRACE satellite spotted bright blobs of gas. Shifts in the wavelength... view more (2002-05-17)

The JRC and CEN/STAR searching for standards
Main objectives of The Strategic Workshop on Pre-normative Research and the Needs for Standards in the of Humanitarian Demining Technologies and Detection of Buried Material, hosted by the JRC-Ispra Site (Province of Varese, Italy) from 3rd to 5th November are: To provide a summary overview of the... view more (1999-10-25)
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