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...
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Article #348: 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 t...
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Article #345: 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 wo...
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Article #342: 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 usi...
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Article #341: 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...
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Article #339: 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 w...
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Article #333: 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...
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Article #332: 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...
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Article #317: 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 w...
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Article #302: 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...
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Article #301: 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 semiconduct...
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Article #299: nanoHUB usage extensive
The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) mission is to support the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) by designing, constructing, depl...
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Article #294: 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 w...
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Article #261: 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 c...
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Article #260: 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 pow...
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Article #259: 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,...
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Article #242: 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...
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Article #239: 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 fut...
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Article #232: 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...