Science Research Groups
Science laboratories, research groups, national and international programs, special projects, and expeditions.
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Reddy Lab at Loyola University Chicago Apr 22, 2017 BioCircuits Institute at UC San Diego Mar 31, 2017 MIALAB: Medical Image Analysis Lab Feb 22, 2017 |
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NASA Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan Jan 15, 2017 Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Jan 04, 2017 USGS Astrogeology Science Center Dec 31, 2016 |
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Culham Centre for Fusion Energy Mar 28, 2017 Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics Mar 11, 2017 |
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Data & Society Apr 25, 2017 UC Boulder Information Science Apr 17, 2017 MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Apr 10, 2017 |
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Banff International Research Station Jan 16, 2017 Mathematical Biosciences Institute Jan 07, 2017 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Jan 07, 2017 |
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Submitted Feb 26, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Space Sciences Official website for Mars Express Mission of the European Space Agency. Mars Express is so called because it will be built more quickly than any other comparable planetary mission. Beagle 2 was named after the ship in which Charles Darwin sailed when formulating his ideas about evolution.
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Submitted Feb 26, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Space Sciences This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each planet and the major moons in our solar system. Each page has my text and NASA's images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
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Submitted Feb 19, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Physics Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. It is also the nation's first national laboratory, chartered in 1946. Argonne is a direct descendant of the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the World War Two Manhattan Project. It was at the Met Lab where, on Dec. 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his band of about 50 colleagues created the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction in a squash court at the University of Chicago. After the war, Argonne was given the mission of developing nuclear reactors for peaceful purposes. Over the years, Argonne's research expanded to include many other areas of science, engineering and technology -- some of which are highlighted in this virtual tour. Argonne is not and never has been a weapons laboratory.
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Submitted Feb 18, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Space Sciences The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is a "research institute" of the Smithsonian Institution headquartered in Cambridge, MA, where it is joined with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). More than 300 scientists at the CfA are engaged in a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics, earth and space sciences, and science education. Because many of these research activities share Harvard and Smithsonian staff and resources, several of the "SAO" links at this website will take you to information posted on joint "CfA" pages.
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Submitted Feb 18, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Space Sciences SkyView is a Virtual Observatory on the Net generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray.
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Submitted Feb 18, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Space Sciences The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most ambitious astronomical survey project ever undertaken, will bring the modern practice of comprehensive and quantitative mapping to cosmography, the science of mapping the universe and determining our place in it. The Sky Survey will systematically map one-quarter of the entire sky, producing a detailed image of it and determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects. It will also measure the distance to a million of the nearest galaxies, giving us a three-dimensional picture of the universe through a volume one hundred times larger than that explored to date. The Sky Survey will also record the distances to 100,000 quasars, the most distant objects known, giving us an unprecedented hint at the distribution of matter to the edge of the visible universe.
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Submitted Feb 17, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Aquarius is an underwater ocean laboratory located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The laboratory is deployed three and half miles offshore, at a depth of 60 feet, next to spectacular coral reefs. Scientists live in Aquarius during ten-day missions using saturation diving to study and explore our coastal ocean.
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Submitted Jan 24, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Earth Science Caltech's Seismological Laboratory established in 1921, has a distinguished history of contributing to science and serving the public interest. Being internationally recognized for excellence in geophysical research and academics makes this an ideal place for study. The lab also serves as a focal point for earthquake information in Southern California and the world.
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Submitted Jan 24, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Earth Science The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) has a long history in the fields of earthquake science and earthquake information. Since 1887, the Seismological Laboratory has been involved in operating seismic networks in central and northern California. The Seismological Laboratory is involved in a number of projects in geophysical monitoring, earthquake information dissemination, and education and outreach.
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Submitted Jan 23, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Biology The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization with interests in science, health, and education. It was founded in 1950.
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Submitted Jan 21, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Earth Science The vision of the GEOsciences Network (GEON) project is to prototype interpretive environments of the future in Earth Sciences, using advanced information technologies to facilitate collaborative, inter-disciplinary science efforts. Scientists will be able to discover data, tools, and models via portals, using advanced, semantics-based search engines and query tools, in a uniform authentication environment that provides controlled access to a wide range of resources. A services-based environment facilitates creation of scientific workflows that are executed in the distributed environment. Advanced GIS mapping, 3D, and 4D visualization tools allow scientists to interact with the data. Such an environment enables new modes of science and can transform the day-to-day conduct of science.
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Submitted Jan 08, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences This website is designed to provide a portal through which scientists, resource managers, and the public can access information about our program and our partners.Our goal is to make our program completely transparent to the public, and to make products and data produced by the program readily accessible, including products from EPA researchers in our laboratories and centers, as well as from our grantees and collaborators.
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Submitted Jan 08, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Space Sciences Welcome to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology. There has never been a more exciting time for JPL than now, with exciting missions spread throughout the solar system. I hope you'll use our Web site to chart this time of unprecedented challenge and exploratory adventure. In January, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers landed on opposite sides of Mars on a mission to search for clues of past water on the red planet. The comet-chasing Stardust spacecraft scooped up samples of comet particles and is now en route back to Earth with its unique cargo. And in late June, after nearly seven years of interplanetary space travel, NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully arrived at Saturn and began a four-year study of the "gem of the solar system." But JPL's exploratory desire reaches far beyond our planetary neighborhood. Ground- and space-based telescopes are peering into the cosmos to learn more about the origins of the universe and search for Earth-like planets. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Galaxy Evolution Explorer, both managed by JPL, are capturing dazzling images as they study distant galaxies. The backbone of this exploration lies with NASA's Deep Space Network, also managed by JPL. This international network of antennas supports communications between distant spacecraft and the Earth-based teams who manage them. JPL missions also turn a watchful eye on Earth, using spacecraft and instruments aboard NASA satellites to expand knowledge of our home planet. Technologies developed for space often have applications on Earth in medicine, communications, safety and more.
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Submitted Jan 05, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Chemistry The Radiotracer Chemistry and Neuroimaging Program is a core element of the Brookhaven Center for Imaging and Neurosciences. It is dedicated to the development of radiotracers labeled with the short lived positron emitters as scientific tools for Positron Emission Tomography (PET). PET is a tracer method which uses compounds labeled with the short lived positron emitters to visualize and quantitate biochemical processes as well as the distribution and movement of drugs in the living human and animal body. PET research centers on the use of four short lived positron emitters.
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Submitted Jan 05, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Physics The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility that began operation in 2000, following 10 years of development and construction. Hundreds of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation. RHIC drives two intersecting beams of gold ions head-on, in a subatomic collision. What physicists learn from these collisions may help us understand more about why the physical world works the way it does, from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.
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Submitted Jan 05, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Space Sciences Because astronauts are spending more time in space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working with Brookhaven National Laboratory and others here on Earth to learn about the possible risks to human beings exposed to space radiation. To study the radiobiological effects using beams that simulate the cosmic rays found in space, a new, $34-million NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) has been established at Brookhaven Lab. Within the NSRL target room, Brookhaven researchers and other NASA-sponsored scientists irradiate a variety of biological specimens, tissues, and cells, as well as DNA in solution. Other experimenters use industrial materials as samples, studying their suitability for space suits and spacecraft shielding. In increasing knowledge of the effects of cosmic radiation, NSRL studies may expand the understanding of the link between ionizing radiation and aging or neuro-degeneration, as well as cancer. In aiming to limit the damage to healthy tissue by ionization, NSRL research may also lead to improvements in cancer radiation treatments.
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Submitted Jan 05, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Physics NSLS-II is a proposed new state-of-the-art medium energy storage ring designed to deliver world leading brightness and flux with top-off operation for constant output. The facility will be able to produce x-rays up to 10,000 times brighter than those produced at the NSLS today. Brookhaven proposes that the design and engineering of the new light source will begin in 2005, construction in 2008, and operations in 2012. The superlative character and combination of capabilities will have broad impact on a wide range of disciplines and scientific initiatives in the coming decades, including new studies of small crystals in structural biology, a wide range of nanometer-resolution probes for nanoscience, coherent imaging of the structure and dynamics of disordered materials, greatly increased applicability of inelastic x-ray scattering, and properties of materials under extreme conditions.
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Submitted Jan 05, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Biology Founded in 1992, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) is a not-for-profit research institute whose primary research interests are in structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products from a wide variety of organisms including viruses, eubacteria (both pathogens and non-pathogens, archaea (the so-called third domain of life), and eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi and protists such as the malarial parasite).
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Submitted Jan 04, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Earth Science Information on the New Madrid Fault zone including historical and recent seismic activity, map of recent quakes, topography, tectonics. etc. Includes a map of earthquakes in the midwestern US from within the past 6 months to the past hour.
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Submitted Jan 04, 2005 to Science Research Groups » Earth Science A fact sheet on the New Madrid Fault Zone prepared by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Earthquake Education and Technology Transfer. History of the fault zone, recent events. maps, predictions.
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