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Posted December 20, 2012:

• Canadian Experiment to Track Space Radiation and Its Risks

Posted December 17, 2012:

• Nanoscale Impulse Radar Measures Depth of Snow and Ice for Alpine Ski Slopes

Posted December 10, 2012:

• New Tool to Enhance Tasks of Humanitarian Demining

Posted December 6, 2012:

• Apollo's Lunar Dust Data Being Restored
• Deception Can Be Perfected: Can a Repeated Lie Become 'a Truth? '
• NASA Investigates Use of 'Trailblazing' Material for New Sensors

Posted November 27, 2012:

• Tracking Down Smallest Biomarkers

Posted November 26, 2012:

• Sensor Detects Bombs on Sea Floor

Posted November 21, 2012:

• Discovering Hidden Art: Detective Work Using Terahertz Radiation

Posted November 20, 2012:

• Nanotech Device Mimics Dog's Nose to Detect Explosives

Posted November 16, 2012:

• Important Progress for Spintronics: Spin Amplifier Works at Room Temperature

Posted November 15, 2012:

• Searching for Elusive Dark Matter Material
• Medical Vital-Sign Monitoring Reduced to the Size of a Postage Stamp

Posted November 14, 2012:

• Boosting the Sensitivity of Airport Security Screening

Posted November 13, 2012:

• Supersymmetry Squeezed as Large Hadron Collider Spots Ultra Rare Particle Decay

Posted November 12, 2012:

• Cold Weather Increases Carbon Monoxide Dangers
• CERN Collider to Become the World's Fastest Stopwatch?

Posted November 9, 2012:

• First 'Snapshots' of Electronic Structure of a Manganese Complex Related to Water-Splitting in Photosynthesis

Posted November 8, 2012:

• Firestation: Getting Ready for Launch
• New Technique to Protect Astronauts from Space Radiation

Posted October 26, 2012:

• Assessing Drop-Off to Mars Rover's Observation Tray

Posted October 22, 2012:

• Curiosity Rover Collects Fourth Scoop of Martian Soil

Posted October 18, 2012:

• NASA Pursues Atom Optics to Detect the Imperceptible

Posted October 17, 2012:

• Developing the Next Generation of Microsensors: Microscale Optical Accelerometer Created

Posted October 15, 2012:

• European Space Agency Deploys First Orbital Debris Test Radar in Spain

Posted October 10, 2012:

• From Lectures to Explosives Detection: Laser Pointer Identifies Dangerous Chemicals in Real-Time

Posted October 4, 2012:

• Hi-Fi Single Photons

Posted September 28, 2012:

• Mars: Curiosity's DAN Instrument Suggests Gale Crater Drier Than Expected

Posted September 27, 2012:

• Optical Mammography Sheds New Light on Breast Cancer

Posted September 25, 2012:

• Emotion Detector Enables Design of Tailor-Made Election Campaigns

Posted September 20, 2012:

• Dawn Sees Hydrated Minerals on Giant Asteroid

Posted September 17, 2012:

• Spacetime Ripples from Dying Black Holes Could Help Reveal How They Formed

Posted September 14, 2012:

• Radar Measurements of Highest Precision

Posted September 10, 2012:

• Computer, Read My Lips: Emotion Detector Developed Using a Genetic Algorithm
• Landmark Papers on the Higgs Boson Published

Posted September 7, 2012:

• Measuring Glucose Without Needle Pricks
• The Pocket Radar: Thumbtack-Sized Distance and Motion Sensor Developed

Posted September 6, 2012:

• Neutron Detector Will Advance Human Disease Research
• Crews Complete First Block of North America's Most Advanced Neutrino Experiment

Posted August 29, 2012:

• Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice

Posted August 28, 2012:

• Advanced CT Scans Accurately Assess Coronary Blockages

Posted August 27, 2012:

• Unexpected Findings at Multi-Detector CT Scans: Less Reason to Worry

Posted August 22, 2012:

• New Cancer Scanner Halves Radiation

Posted August 21, 2012:

• 'Electronic Nose' Prototype Developed: Device Has Applications in Agriculture, Industry, Homeland Security and the Military

Posted August 13, 2012:

• New System Could Predict Solar Flares, Give Advance Warning
• Nano, Photonic Research Gets Boost from New 3-D Visualization Technology

Posted August 8, 2012:

• Advanced Explosives Detector Sniffs out Previously Undetectable Amounts of TNT

Posted August 7, 2012:

• A Simple Way to Help Cities Monitor Traffic More Accurately

Posted August 2, 2012:

• New Chemical Sensor Makes Finding Landmines and Buried IEDs Easier

Posted August 1, 2012:

• Controlling Gene Expression With Hydrogen Peroxide 'Switches'

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