Article #418: Madagascar's unique animal population probably floated there to start
The origin, as well as the unique composition, of Madagascar's land animals has puzzled naturalists for more than two centuries. Now, data from a Pur...
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Article #105: Madagascar’s unique animal population probably rafted there
How Madagascar got its unique collection of lemurs and other animals has puzzled naturalists for a century. Data from a Purdue professor’s three-year...
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Article #104: Purdue and Melbourne researchers propose method to image electron wavefunctions
Purdue Professor Gerhard Klimeck and a University of Melbourne, Australia, colleague have proposed a novel way to accomplish 3-D mapping of electron w...
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Article #103: Patient safety focus of virtual clean room for training pharmacists
Pharmacy clean rooms and proper clean room procedures to ensure that chemotherapy and direct-to-the-bloodstream intravenous treatments remain contamin...
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Article #102: Research suggests urban sprawl, wet falls and winters influence severe weather
Previously rare big city storms like a 2009 tornado that downed trees and ripped off roofs in downtown Minneapolis and a 2008 twister in Atlanta that...
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Article #101: Purdue, NASA research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming, recipe for greener chemistry
Purdue Professor Joseph Francisco says we may have bigger things to worry about than carbon dioxide and the other high-profile greenhouse gases that s...
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Article #100: Study shows how land-use changes affect U.S. temperature, and might be used to address climate change
Researchers affiliated with ITaP’s Purdue Terrestrial Observatory program say regional surface temperatures can be affected by land use, suggesting th...
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Article #403: Study gives a clearer picture of how land-use changes affect the U.S. climate
Researchers say regional surface temperatures can be affected by land use, suggesting that local and regional strategies, such as creating green space...
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Article #398: Research suggests urban sprawl, wet falls and winter affect severe weather
Previously rare big city storms -- like a tornado August 19 that downed trees and ripped off roofs in downtown Minneapolis and the powerful thundersto...
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Article #374: Virtual Omaha Beach: Purdue team recreates D-Day battlefield, launches learning environment where information searches for user
Purdue and Indiana University researchers are commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day by releasing the first version of a 3-D, interactive model o...
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Article #355: Patient safety focus of immersive virtual environment for training pharmacists
When Tara Holt, a third-year Purdue University pharmacy student from Frankton, Ind., steps into a pharmacy clean room for the first time, she’s likely...
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Article #354: Prehistoric global cooling caused by C02, research finds
Ice in Antarctica suddenly appeared — in geologic terms — about 35 million years ago. For the previous 100 million years the continent had been essent...
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Article #348: Purdue research aims to stave off electronics industry crisis
The design of microprocessors and other devices central to the electronics age faces a crisis. The 40-year process of transistor downscaling has led t...
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Article #345: Time on giant computer will allow Purdue researchers to look at very small things, lots of them
Purdue researchers will study the next generation of computer chips before they are even built using one of the most powerful supercomputers in the wo...
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Article #342: Drought information to be more predictive and versatile for a variety of users
Odd as it may seem given that a considerable swath of Indiana flooded this spring, parts of the state were almost dry enough in September to start usi...
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Article #341: Purdue project aims to move visual mountains, and quickly
In an age of scientific visualization employing huge datasets, and of networked instruments that produce data in torrents, bandwidth is an issue. More...
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Article #339: Purdue project aims to put isotope analysis on the map, and the web
Mapping and spatial analysis of isotopes in water, particularly hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, could be used to trace the ultimate source of a city’s w...
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Article #333: Virtual clean room to enhance training for pharmacy students
Editor's note: View a fly-through animation of the clean room from the Rosen Center Web site, https://www.ecshowcase.com/projects/2020-01-01-cleanroom...
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Article #332: Making sense of the world an old idea, new technologies offer ways to do it better than ever
A Babylonian clay tablet dating from 600 B.C. is the oldest map of the known world, although not a whole lot of the world was actually “known” at that...
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Article #317: Purdue project aims to put isotope analysis on the map, and the Web
Mapping and spatial analysis of isotopes in water, particularly hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, could be used to trace the ultimate source of a city’s w...