Science Highlights
-
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...
-
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:...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...