Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 22, 2009, 10:55 am
When a whale dies and its body sinks to the bottom of the sea - it becomes a food source for an entire ecosystem. The problem of course, is that it is nearly impossible to predict when and where the w...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 21, 2009, 10:45 am
In an article released today, MIT researchers have found that carbon nanotubes, formed into tiny springs have the potential to store as much energy pound for pound as modern lithium ion batteries. We...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 15, 2009, 3:46 pm
Japanese researcher Motoichi Ohtsu, a pioneer in the field of nanophotonics, will be the 2009 recipient of the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics. His work in near-field optics - the pursuit of...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 11, 2009, 12:53 pm
From TED.com comes James Balog's guided tour of the time lapse footage shot of glaciers in Alaska, Iceland and Greenland by him and his team. The footage reveals extereme ice loss over a period o...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 9, 2009, 7:11 pm
Rising sea temperatures in the Caribbean have provided scientists with the opportunity to study the effects of warmer water on a particular species of algae. In a paper to be published in the Proceedi...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 8, 2009, 1:55 pm
UC Berkely researchers have developed a "NanoPen" that they say overcomes one of the top challenges in nanotechnology manufacturing - producing nano-scale components quickly, cheaply and efficiently. ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 8, 2009, 1:02 pm
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have fashioned industrial grade hook-and-loop tape - commonly known as velcro - out of steel, which they say can operate at temperatures up to 800 d...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 4, 2009, 10:58 am
Goofing around on Google Trends, is always fun, and obviously we have a strong interest in science literacy and sharing hopefully a bigger picture of the world. SO! Could it be that my small U.S. cit...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 3, 2009, 10:09 am
University of Dublin researchers David Knowles and Aoife McLysaght, of the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, have identified three uniquely human genes that are not found in any other species. read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 2, 2009, 12:33 pm
Dr. Gary Matyas and Dr. Carl Alving, researchers in the Division of Retrovirology, MHRP, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), reported in the August 25th online edition of AIDS that they ha...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 2, 2009, 11:51 am
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Sep 1, 2009, 11:18 am
Purdue's School of Nuclear Engineering has seen positive results when matching super computer simulations with real world experiments in the laboratory around laser produced plasma beams. The res...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 31, 2009, 11:37 am
Last year, after a published paper identified security holes in the way DNA data is made publicly available, health institutes in the US and around the world removed all genetic data from public acces...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 28, 2009, 1:02 pm
All of the "we never landed on the moon" conspiracy believers have new fuel for the fire. The BBC just ran a story stating "A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 28, 2009, 12:35 pm
Scientists recently discovered that a cyanobacteria, collected off the coast of Papua New Guinea, produces a compound with a structure that has never before been seen in biomedicine. read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 26, 2009, 1:28 pm
Illumina is working on their iPhone application, dubbed MyGenome, that will allow a customer to carry their entire genomic information on the device. read more
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 25, 2009, 5:02 pm
Researchers are using the popular children's LEGO pieces to re-create - on a much larger scale - the microscopic activity taking place inside microfluidic arrays, commonly called lab-on-a-chip dev...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 25, 2009, 10:17 am
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 21, 2009, 10:39 am
In November of 2008 the supreme court heard orations for Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, a case questioning whether "a state forensic analyst's laboratory report prepared for use in a criminal pro...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 20, 2009, 10:03 am
This video struck me as a humorous contrast to the video presentations, graphics and scripting people use today. If you are interested in more ole timey science videos check out this Youtube Channel ...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 18, 2009, 5:49 pm
Caltech scientists have isolated two groups of neurons in fruit fly brains that are capable of sensing and manipulating the fly's fat stores - making these flies a potential useful model for the s...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 18, 2009, 1:14 pm
A fundamental ingredient for life has been discovered in a comet sample, supporting the idea that such icy objects seeded early Earth with the stuff needed to whip up living organisms. New research f...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 17, 2009, 10:01 am
UCSF researcher, Dr. Ying-Hui Fu, and her team have discovered the first gene involved in regulating the optimal length of human sleep. “Short term and chronic disruptions in the length of optimal...
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 14, 2009, 12:44 pm
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Benjamin Friedle posted an article on LabGrab - Helping Science Share Discoveries - Aug 12, 2009, 10:47 am
Researchers at the Jewish General Hospital Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research and McGill University in Montreal have used a new immune-suppressing treatment to completely reverse multiple scler...
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