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Waters Corporation has announced availability of a new application note detailing rapid analysis of 402 pesticides in a single 10-minute run using Waters ACQUITY TQD, liquid chromatography combined with tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (UPLC/MS/MS) operated in Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) mode, and Waters MassLynx Software with IntelliStart technology for data acquisition and MS parameters optimization
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Purdue University is operating a virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data collected with powerful instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes. The online tools, believed to be the first of their kind for the instruments, represent a research trend, with tools for other applications also being developed, said Arvind Raman, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering."We will see more and more of this sort of thing for many other types of instruments that are being used around the world," he said. "This allows researchers to spend more time doing research and less time and money developing simulations."
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Titanium, a protean element with applications from pigments to aerospace alloys, could get a new role as an environmentally friendly additive for automotive oil, thanks to work conducted at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) by materials scientists from Afton Chemical Corporation in Richmond, Va., and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will provide $36 million for 15 projects aimed at furthering the development of new and cost-effective technologies for the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the existing fleet of coal-fired power plants.
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Bruker AXS, in cooperation with The Microbeam Analysis Society, has announced that the Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis has been awarded to Professor Joseph Goldstein of UMASS Amherst. Dr. Goldstein is a scientist, educator and administrator internationally known for his work in the development of X-ray techniques in electron microscopy to determine the chemistry of small regions of solid materials, ranging from cubic micrometers to cubic nanometers, and in the field of meteoritics, the study of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials.
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Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples.
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As gas prices soar, scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University are marketing research that will enable petroleum companies to locate, analyze and process crude oil much faster, cheaper and more accurately.
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Certain sizes of nanostructures may be more susceptible to failure by fracture than others.
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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach and U.S. Agriculture Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics Gale Buchanan today announced plans to award 10 grants totaling more than $10 million to accelerate fundamental research in the development of cellulosic biofuels.
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A new technique allows pictures that were later painted over to be revealed once more. An international research team, including members from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), has successfully applied this technique for the first time to the painting entitled Patch of Grass by Vincent van Gogh.
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Job recruiting will start within weeks for a Massachusetts research and development firm that will build labs in Tampa and St. Petersburg to manufacture tiny biomedical machines.
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Comprising the infrastructure for the Information Age, cyberinfrastructure the organized aggregate of information technologies, organizations, and human resources is essential for future research advancement and discovery.
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