Using Argon-argon dating - a technique based on the decay ratio of radioactive potassium - researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Glasgow have revised both the date of the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago, and the timing of the Chicxulub asteroid impact that occurred at around the same time.
The gene-based technique marks a new approach toward cancer screening, and specialists are watching closely.
Equally important, the hydrogen-impregnation technique requires far less gas than the oxygen-based one.
The researchers used the star's X-ray light curves to determine its spin, which makes V1647 one of the youngest stars whose spin has been determined using an X-ray based technique, they said.
That started happening in 2006, when Dr Jiao developed a technique called time-series observation-based infra-red epifluorescence microscopy, or TIREM for short, that is able to measure the amount of AAPB in the oceans accurately.
Moreover, the technique may also work with other protein-based drugs, such as insulin.
Using a technique called "sniffing, " three foreign-based journalists working for Global Security magazine hacked into a closed wire-based network set up exclusively for the media.
The technique is based on the fact that mobile-phone companies keep information about the telephone numbers called, and where calls are made and received, for billing purposes.
Sequenom is developing a high-speed "bacterial fingerprinting" technique based on mass spectrometry that can be used to rapidly identify the DNA of subtly different strains of bacteria or viruses.
In fact, relationship-based marketing was the only technique that business owners had before they could spread the word to broader audiences through print, then radio, then TV, then the Web, and now through social networks.
In February this year Mark Swain of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and his colleagues reported that they had developed a new technique for calibrating data arriving at ordinary ground-based telescopes, allowing them to identify the components of an extrasolar atmosphere.
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Lee is acutely aware of the Bay Area's two-pronged French culinary heritage the precise, technique-heavy strain epitomized by Keller in Napa Valley and the more hands-off, ingredient-based school of Waters in Berkeley.
Last month 49, 000 consumers self-selected among 598 brands in 83 diverse categories in which they are customers, and assessed brands based on an independently-validated technique that fuses rational and emotional aspects of the categories, using a combination of psychological inquiry and higher-order statistical analyses.
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The technique works by focusing high-powered microwaves on plant-based material, transforming the tough cellulose molecules of the plant matter into volatile gases.
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The technique is based on classifying patients by the genetic make-up of certain of their hormones that are involved in the immune response.
With this project she will develop a new label-free biomolecular detection method, based on a technique called Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer (PRET), to monitor biochemical pathways involved in the differentiation of stem cells.
The technique allows statisticians to make guesses about the size and make-up of a population based on only a small sample.
The U.S.-based PGA Tour rejects the suggested law change saying there is no evidence the technique offers a "competitive advantage" over more traditional putting methods.
Their technique, based on an algorithm they call P4P, could eventually offer a less controversial version of peer-to-peer file sharing, a practice that has flooded the Internet with pirated music and movies and ignited debate over what online content broadband providers should regulate.
In an ordinary-looking workshop off Avenida Corrientes in Buenos Aires, she produces a collection based on her patented technique for applying plastic beads to fabric.
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