http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu Voices from the lab: Multimedia stories about basic research conducted at Vanderbilt University en-US Publisher: Michael J. Schoenfeld, Editor-in-Chief: David F. Salisbury http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/rss/rss_logo.gif http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu Voices from the lab: Multimedia stories about basic research conducted at Vanderbilt University http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/25ZekZpYhmA/index.php A Vanderbilt chemist and a biomedical engineer have teamed up to develop a respiratory virus detector that is sensitive enough to detect an infection at an early stage, takes only a few minutes to return a result and is simple enough so it can be performed in a pediatrician's office. 2009-06-26 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1505&story_id=373 David F. Salisbury http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1505&story_id=373 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/BE-f6mem-t0/index.php Our tendency to see people and faces as individuals may explain why we are such experts at recognizing them, new research indicates. This approach can be learned and applied to other objects as well. 2009-06-25 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1502&story_id=372 Melanie Moran http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1502&story_id=372 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/fOcYSMvMSGs/index.php The tentacled snake is a small water snake from South East Asia with an uncanny ability: It can predict the direction that its piscine prey will turn to escape even before they begin to move. 2009-06-18 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1499&story_id=371 David F. Salisbury http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1499&story_id=371 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/mPIXVw-YvNU/index.php Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don't disintegrate at the slightest touch. 2009-06-09 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1496&story_id=370 David F. Salisbury http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1496&story_id=370 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/K_zwoKrMLuw/index.php Vanderbilt researchers have received a one-year, $100,000 grant to see if they can mess with the female malaria mosquito's heat detection apparatus. 2009-05-15 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1493&story_id=369 David F. Salisbury http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1493&story_id=369 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/dev-JX-SVz0/index.php Imagine a time when the entire universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the universe was a quarter of the size it is today. 2009-05-07 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1490&story_id=368 David F. Salisbury http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1490&story_id=368 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/qYvlBe9QZ-o/index.php A team of chemists has successfully synthesized an alkaloid from club moss, enabling them to produce enough of the compound to test its anti-cancer properties and its ability to combat memory loss. 2009-04-15 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1487&story_id=367 David F. Salisbury http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1487&story_id=367 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/oAf93crsRAk/index.php Imagine a platoon of soldiers fighting in a hazardous urban environment who carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately identify the caliber and type of weapons they are firing. Engineers at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) have developed a system that can give soldiers just such an edge by turning their combat helmets into "smart nodes" in a wireless sensor network. 2009-03-18 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1484&story_id=366 David F. Salisbury http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1484&story_id=366 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/kC90eF7RKNc/index.php A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once. 2009-02-25 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1474&story_id=363 David F. Salisbury http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1474&story_id=363 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ExplorationVanderbiltsOnlineResearchMagazine/~3/5R00oNsdaD4/index.php Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. 2009-02-18 http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1481&story_id=365 Melanie Moran http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/text/index.php?action=view_section&id=1481&story_id=365