Science Highlights
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Homeland security skills honed through "Measured Response" simulation
Representatives of federal, state, and local governmental agencies gathered at Purdue Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8 and 9, to use an interactive computer simulation, Measured Response, to test the effectiveness of varying responses to a national emer...
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Simulation Shows 9/11 Plane Crash with Scientific Detail
Engineers, computer scientists and graphics technology experts at Purdue University have created the first publicly available simulation that uses scientific principles to study in detail what theoretically happened when the Boeing 757 crashed into t...
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Remnants of Hurricane Dennis at 11:02am, July 12, 2005 This data, showing the remnants of Hurricane Dennis, was received at the Purdue receiving station from the GOES (Geostationary Observational Environmental Satellite) at 11:02, Indiana time, on th...
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Sun Computers Run Most Comprehensive Climate Model To Date
The most comprehensive climate model to date of the continental United States predicts more extreme temperatures throughout the country and more extreme precipitation along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and east of the Mississippi. Changes...
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'Not so fast, supercomputers,' say software programmers
The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of multicore computing. Despite the promise of almost uni...
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'Push-Button' Climate Modeling Now Available
A tool used by scientists to create climate models is about to become easier to use and available to a much wider audience. A new Web-enhanced version of the most commonly used climate modeling system will allow many more scientists -- and even curio...
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Scientists Create their own Web 2.0 network with nanoHUB
Teenagers may not have heard about it, but there's a Web 2.0 site that's a hit with scientists and engineers. nanoHUB.org, a so-called science gateway for nano-science and nanotechnology housed at Purdue University, is taking the tools of Web 2.0 and...
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Research forecasts increased chances for stormy weather
Researchers who study severe weather and climate change joined forces to study the effects of global warming on the number of severe storms in the future and discovered a dramatic increase in potential storm conditions for some parts of the United St...
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Proposed new city of Istanbul premiers in animated video
Istanbul is at such high risk for a devastating earthquake that engineers at Purdue University and the Republic of Turkey have come up with a bold new proposal: build a second city. A second satellite city would provide immediate refuge to inhabitant...
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Virus views enhanced using nation's largest Condor flock
A team lead by a Purdue University researcher has achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had previously been achieved. Wen Jiang, an assistant professor of biological sciences, led a team that used the emerging technique of singl...
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Breath of a Nation -- Animated CO2 Map
Scientists have come up with a new way to precisely track daily and local patterns of carbon dioxide emissions} rom the burning of fossil fuels by power plants, factories, and vehicle traffic. The resulting database and maps provide a view of the “in...
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Top CO2 emitting counties in the United States identified
The top twenty carbon dioxide-emitting counties in the United States have been identified by a research team led by Purdue University. The top three counties include the cities of Houston, Los Angeles and Chicago. Kevin Gurney, an assistant professor...
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Purdue project for FEMA producing a flood of flood maps
Classify Kaiem Frink as a first-shift worker in a flood factory running on Purdue University’s campus this summer. Frink and the rest of the student work force, two shifts of them a day and one on weekends, aren’t actually filling the labs they occup...
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The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) mission is to support the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) by designing, constructing, deploying, and operating www.nanoHUB.org, a national cyber-resource for nanotechnology theory, simulatio...
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Quantum computing breakthrough arises from unknown molecule
The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors. In a Nature Physics journal paper currently online, the researchers describe how they have crea...
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Strange molecule in the sky cleans acid rain, scientists discover
Researchers have discovered an unusual molecule that is essential to the atmosphere's ability to break down pollutants, especially the compounds that cause acid rain. It's the unusual chemistry facilitated by this molecule, however, that will attract...
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Purdue project aims to put isotope analysis on the map, and the Web
Mapping and spatial analysis of isotopes in water, particularly hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, could be used to trace the ultimate source of a city’s water supply, the wintering sites of migrating birds, the trading patterns of prehistoric peoples, pe...
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Making sense of the world an old idea, new technologies offer ways to do it better than ever
A Babylonian clay tablet dating from 600 B.C. is the oldest map of the known world, although not a whole lot of the world was actually “known” at that point. The Chinese, Egyptians and Mesopotamians used string and bead abacuses to make calculations...
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Virtual clean room to enhance training for pharmacy students
Editor's note: View a fly-through animation of the clean room from the Rosen Center Web site, https://www.ecshowcase.com/projects/2020-01-01-cleanroom/index.html). Hard-to-come-by training time in a pharmacy clean room is about to become a lot easier...
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Purdue project aims to put isotope analysis on the map, and the web
Mapping and spatial analysis of isotopes in water, particularly hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, could be used to trace the ultimate source of a city’s water supply, the wintering sites of migrating birds, the trading patterns of prehistoric peoples, pe...