Article #107: Silicon wire 4 atoms wide and 1 atom tall may be small, but it can carry a load
Like that little old ant with the rubber tree plant in the song, silicon wires just four atoms wide and an atom tall may be small, but they can carry...
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Article #106: Computational simulation opens a window on planet formation with a new view
Our Solar System formed about 4.5 billion years ago so it is a little late to watch Earth, Mars and their fellow planets coalescing out of the cloud o...
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Article #489: Shared licensing brings powerful data visualization tool to Purdue researchers
When entomology Professor Jeffrey Holland’s class wanted to find out how changing the size and increasing the isolation of a landscape affects its abi...
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Article #461: Virtual ICU created by faculty, ITaP partnership supports research and training
When a physician is treating a patient in an intensive care unit, nurses are more than partners. They’re also human safety checklists. Are the right m...
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Article #447: 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 Grea...
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Article #435: 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...
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Article #431: 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. Th...
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Article #430: 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 t...
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Article #418: 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 Pur...
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Article #105: 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...
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Article #104: 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 w...
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Article #103: 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 contamin...
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Article #102: 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...
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Article #101: Purdue, NASA research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming, recipe for greener chemistry
Purdue Professor Joseph Francisco says we may have bigger things to worry about than carbon dioxide and the other high-profile greenhouse gases that s...
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Article #100: Study shows how land-use changes affect U.S. temperature, and might be used to address climate change
Researchers affiliated with ITaP’s Purdue Terrestrial Observatory program say regional surface temperatures can be affected by land use, suggesting th...
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Article #403: 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 space...
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Article #398: 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 thundersto...
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Article #374: Virtual Omaha Beach: Purdue team recreates D-Day battlefield, launches learning environment where information searches for user
Purdue and Indiana University researchers are commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day by releasing the first version of a 3-D, interactive model o...
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Article #355: 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...
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Article #354: 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 essent...