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iPads for Soldiers, Packages From Home and the National Organization for Research (NORC) Receive $200,000 in Grants to Further Their Efforts in Support of the Troops WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Diageo, as part of its Diageo Salutes the Troops initiative, today announced that it has contributed $200,000 to three organizations dedicated to supporting our military troops both at home and abroad: iPads for Soldiers, Packages From Home and the independent research...
University of Chicago researchers have created a synthetic compound that mimics the complex quantum dynamics observed in photosynthesis and may enable fundamentally new routes to creating solar-energy technologies. Engineering quantum effects into synthetic light-harvesting devices is not only possible, but also easier than anyone expected, the researchers report in the April 18 edition of Science Express. The researchers have engineered small molecules that support long-lived quantum...
The University of Chicago [ Watch The Video Finding the Strongest Shapes with 3D Printing ] Prof. Heinrich Jaeger’s research group examines materials and phenomena that appear simple at the surface, but which reveal tremendous complexity upon close examination. One such phenomenon is jamming, in which aggregates of randomly placed particles, including spheres or more complicated shapes, or even molecules, transition from fluid-like to solid-like behavior. Jamming lends itself to...
University of Chicago The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded $4.4 million to a collaboration of scientists at five United States universities and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to help build a telescope for deployment on the International Space Station in 2017. The U.S. collaboration is part of a 13-nation effort to build the 2.5-meter ultraviolet telescope, called the Extreme Universe Space Observatory. UChicago Prof. Angela Olinto leads the U.S....
University of Chicago [ Watch The Video Tying a Vortex Ring into a Knot ] University of Chicago physicists have succeeding in creating a vortex knot—a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a century, but creating them in the laboratory had previously eluded scientists. Vortex knots should, in principle, be persistent, stable phenomena. "The unexpected thing is that they're not," said Dustin Kleckner, a...
CHICAGO, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Insight Behavioral Health Centers and the University of Chicago's Eating Disorder Program are teaming up to study new options for adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa who do not respond to current treatment protocols. Daniel Le Grange, Ph.D., director of the Eating Disorder Program at the University of Chicago, will serve as principal investigator for the expansive three-year study. Dr. Le Grange was a member of the original...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The best way to win any decades-long debate is science, science, and more science. If, for example, you’re able to hire a team of technicians to operate a powerful X-Ray to prove your point, there’s almost no way you’ll lose. Such is the case with a long-standing debate over which type of paint Picasso used in his works. Art scholars have been arguing for many years over the theory that the cubist painter used...
University of Chicago A natural disaster can bring out the best in older children, prompting 9-year-olds to be more willing to share, while 6-year-olds become more selfish. Researchers at the University of Toronto, the University of Chicago, and Liaoning Normal University made this finding in a rare natural experiment in China around the time of a horrific earthquake. A crucial difference between the two age groups emerged one month after the disaster. The 6-year-olds’ willingness to...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), a Senior Democratic Appropriator on the Energy and Water Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, is calling on the Argonne National Laboratory to provide its expertise to the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing to help resolve mechanical problems that have forced FAA officials to ground Boeing's 787 Dreamliner fleet. In a letter to Argonne Director, Eric Isaacs, Fattah asks the...
Jedidiah Becker for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online When it comes to providing an objective account of the world around us, the human brain can be a notoriously inaccurate and biased reporter. Scholarly literature in the fields of psychology and neuroscience are full of studies that demonstrate how the brain ‘fudges’ the picture of reality with which it presents our conscious mind, often favoring a useful or convenient interpretation of our surroundings over a strictly accurate...
