Science news articles about 'accurate control'

  • Comparing apples and pears

    ... fruit is stored in dedicated cool rooms with accurate control of oxygen levels. The correct oxygen concentration is related to the complex mechanisms of gas exchange ...
  • Controllable double quantum dots and Klein tunneling in nanotubes

    ... . However, up until now it has proved impossible to accurately control double quantum dots in nanotubes ... electrodes positioned close to the ultraclean nanotube to accurately control the number of electrons of the quantum dot ...
  • Radiofrequency ablation safe and effective for reducing pain from bone metastases

    ... in that cell death is immediate, lesion size can be accurately controlled, lesion temperature can be monitored, and it can be performed under local anesthesia and conscious sedation in the outpatient ...
  • Soft drinks may increase risk of pancreatic cancer

    ... such as smoking and red meat intake, which we can't accurately control for," said Mayne, an editorial board member of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. Yet Pereira ...
  • Photons led astray

    ... . "We can investigate such effects with our set-up because we can very accurately control the superposition state via the half-wave plate." The researchers can use the setting of this instrument to investigate ...
  • How nerve cells grow

    ... not lead to chaos, the growth of the dendrites must be accurately controlled. In fact, a large number of signal ... has now discovered exactly how the growth of the cytoskeleton is controlled during the dendrite development. Using specially bred ...
  • A molecular brake for the bacterial flagellar nano-motor

    ... and signal transduction machinery that allows them to accurately control motor rotation, thereby adjusting their swimming velocity in response to changing environments. The research ...
  • Hepatitis C treatment less effective in urban minority patients

    ... to ensure that all aspects of therapy with a study drug are accurately controlled, observed and documented." Researchers noted ... whites. Nevertheless, efficacy data from randomized controlled therapeutic trials are commonly used to make important ...
  • Brain uses eyes to pick up things: Unraveling the calculations

    ... all of the information into coordinates of the eye, according to new Dutch research. Unraveling those calculations will make it possible to more accurately control arm prostheses ...
  • Scientists perfect new nanowire technique

    ... Evans from the University of Leeds. "But the difficulty comes in controlling the orientation of such columnar stacks with respect to the surface ... areas, but for new generations of devices we need to accurately control how liquid crystal arranges itself ...
  • Conditioning reefs for the future

    ... 's Coral Reef Ecosystems Laboratory is one of the largest and most accurately controlled ocean acidification and warming experimental ... prescribed by the 2100 IPCC scenarios in a highly controlled environment, the CCM system allows studies ...
  • EECoG may finally allow enduring control of a prosthetic or a paralyzed arm by thought alone

    ... perform better than is sometimes supposed. They allow accurate control of a computer cursor in two or three ... discovered that populations of neurons in the motor cortex could be used to control the direction and speed of movements in three-dimensional ...
  • BrainGate neural interface system reaches 1,000-day performance milestone

    ... being developed to translate brain signals toward control of assistive devices has allowed a woman with paralysis to accurately control a computer cursor at 2.7 ...
  • ‘Smart’ microcapsules in a single step

    The ability to enclose materials in capsules between 10 and 100 micrometres in diameter, while accurately controlling both the capsule structure and the core contents, is a key concern in biology,...
  • Protein signal is crucial for accurate control of insect size

    Two independent groups of researchers have identified a hormone that is responsible for keeping the growth and development of insects on track. The results, which are reported in the journal Science, ...

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