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  • 15,000 Beams of Light, by Megan Fellman Comments (0) icon Northwestern University News Center 8/6/2010 The Northwestern technology offers a means to rapidly and inexpensively make and prototype circuits, optoelectronics and medical diagnostics and promises many other applications in the electronics, photonics and life sciences industries. More »
  • Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins, by William J. Broad Comments (0) icon The New York Times 8/2/2010 Today, a principal tenet of geology is that a vast majority of the world’s oil arose not from lumbering beasts on land but tiny organisms at sea. It holds that blizzards of microscopic life fell into the sunless depths over the ages, producing thick sediments that the planet’s inner heat eventually cooked into oil. It is estimated that 95 percent or more of global oil traces its genesis to the sea. More »
  • Robot Submarine Patrols Lake Michigan for Climate-Change Study, by Emil Venere Comments (0) icon Purdue University News Service 7/28/2010 The researchers are using an autonomous underwater vehicle to measure slices of water quality. The slender, battery-powered vehicle is about 3 feet long and is programmed to trace specific routes in collecting data such as oxygen and chlorophyll concentrations, pH, and turbidity. Strings of sensors extending to the lake bottom from buoys also are recording temperature readings every 15 minutes. More »
  • New Arsenic Nanoparticle Blocks Aggressive Breast Cancer, by Marla Paul Comments (0) icon Northwestern University News Center 7/24/2010 The nanoparticle, called a nanobin, was injected into mice with triple negative breast tumors. Nanobins loaded with arsenic reduced tumor growth in mice, while the non-encapsulated arsenic had no effect on tumor growth. The arsenic nanobins blocked tumor growth by causing the cancer cells to die by a process known as apoptosis. More »
  • Taking Lessons From What Went Wrong, by William J. Broad Comments (0) icon The New York Times 7/20/2010 ...engineering, by definition, is a problem-solving profession. Technology analysts say that constructive impulse, and its probable result for deep ocean drilling, is that innovation through failure analysis will make the wells safer, whatever the merits of reducing human reliance on oil. More »
  • Extra Pounds Reduce Memory, by Marla Paul Comments (0) icon Northwestern University News Center 7/20/2010 For every one-point increase in a woman's BMI, her memory score dropped by one point. The women were scored on a 100-point memory test, called the Modified Mini-Mental Status Examination. The study controlled for such variables as diabetes, heart disease and stroke. More »

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