Science Highlights
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Purdue project aims to move visual mountains, and quickly
In an age of scientific visualization employing huge datasets, and of networked instruments that produce data in torrents, bandwidth is an issue. More of it may be available than ever before and it may be faster than in the past, but the pipeline rem...
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Drought information to be more predictive and versatile for a variety of users
Odd as it may seem given that a considerable swath of Indiana flooded this spring, parts of the state were almost dry enough in September to start using the “D” word before Hurricane Ike sent a spate of rain north. Drought, said Dev Niyogi, a Purdue...
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Time on giant computer will allow Purdue researchers to look at very small things, lots of them
Purdue researchers will study the next generation of computer chips before they are even built using one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The Department of Energy awarded electrical and computer engineering Professor Gerhard Klimeck...
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Purdue research aims to stave off electronics industry crisis
The design of microprocessors and other devices central to the electronics age faces a crisis. The 40-year process of transistor downscaling has led to atomic-scale features, making devices subject to unavoidable manufacturing irregularities and to p...
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Prehistoric global cooling caused by C02, research finds
Ice in Antarctica suddenly appeared — in geologic terms — about 35 million years ago. For the previous 100 million years the continent had been essentially ice-free. The question for science has been, why? What triggered glaciers to form at the South...
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Patient safety focus of immersive virtual environment for training pharmacists
When Tara Holt, a third-year Purdue University pharmacy student from Frankton, Ind., steps into a pharmacy clean room for the first time, she’s likely to experience a little déjà vu. The room should look and sound familiar. Nothing ought to feel stra...
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Purdue and Indiana University researchers are commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day by releasing the first version of a 3-D, interactive model of the Omaha Beach battlefield. A demonstration will take place at the Advanced Visualization Lab Tue...
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Research suggests urban sprawl, wet falls and winter affect severe weather
Previously rare big city storms -- like a tornado August 19 that downed trees and ripped off roofs in downtown Minneapolis and the powerful thunderstorms in New York City a day earlier -- may not be so unusual anymore. As large urban areas continue t...
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Study gives a clearer picture of how land-use changes affect the U.S. climate
Researchers say regional surface temperatures can be affected by land use, suggesting that local and regional strategies, such as creating green spaces and buffer zones in and around urban areas, could be a tool in addressing climate change. A study...
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Researchers affiliated with ITaP’s Purdue Terrestrial Observatory program say regional surface temperatures can be affected by land use, suggesting that local and regional strategies, such as creating green spaces and buffer zones in and around urban...
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Purdue Professor Joseph Francisco says we may have bigger things to worry about than carbon dioxide and the other high-profile greenhouse gases that spill profusely from our car exhausts, coal-fired power plants and the like. Some lesser-known chemic...
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Research suggests urban sprawl, wet falls and winters influence severe weather
Previously rare big city storms like a 2009 tornado that downed trees and ripped off roofs in downtown Minneapolis and a 2008 twister in Atlanta that killed one person and caused $250 million damage may not be so unusual anymore. As large urban areas...
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Patient safety focus of virtual clean room for training pharmacists
Pharmacy clean rooms and proper clean room procedures to ensure that chemotherapy and direct-to-the-bloodstream intravenous treatments remain contamination free are vital to patient safety, all the more so with the rise of super bacteria resistant to...
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Purdue and Melbourne researchers propose method to image electron wavefunctions
Purdue Professor Gerhard Klimeck and a University of Melbourne, Australia, colleague have proposed a novel way to accomplish 3-D mapping of electron wavefunction—the probability that an electron will be in a given position around an atom in a solid—s...
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Madagascar’s unique animal population probably rafted there
How Madagascar got its unique collection of lemurs and other animals has puzzled naturalists for a century. Data from a Purdue professor’s three-year computer simulation appears to provide an answer: the animals floated there on natural log rafts blo...
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Madagascar's unique animal population probably floated there to start
The origin, as well as the unique composition, of Madagascar's land animals has puzzled naturalists for more than two centuries. Now, data from a Purdue professor's three-year computer simulation on ITaP's Pete cluster appears to provide an answer:...
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Global warming could eventually make half the Earth's population centers too hot to handle
A study looking at global warming in terms of heat stress on humans, which also has application to other mammals, like pets and livestock, says half the world’s population centers could become dangerously hot within the next few centuries if the warm...
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NASA, Purdue study offers recipe for global warming-free industrial materials
Let a bunch of fluorine atoms get together in the molecules of a chemical compound and they’re like a heavy metal band at a chamber music festival. They tend to dominate the proceedings and not always for the better. That’s particularly true where th...
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ITaP supercomputer is remote guest of honor at Iowa high-performance computing school
Moffett, ITaP’s SiCortex supercomputer, was the center of attention recently for students in the annual Iowa High Performance Computing (IHPC) Summer School. Iowa Professor Greg Howes, the course instructor, contacted the TeraGrid looking for a syste...
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ITaP, faculty partnership looks at Lake Michigan in depth -- without anybody getting wet
ITaP data visualization specialists are helping provide some illuminating 3-D animations of environmental fluid mechanics processes affecting the Great Lakes. Civil engineering Professor Cary Troy models hydrodynamic flow in Lake Michigan and collect...