Nanotechnology, the cutting-edge research field that explores ultrasmall materials, organisms, and devices, has now been graced with the largest, most sophisticated, and most accessible university research facility of its kind in the U.S.: It is the new $400 million MIT.nano building, which will have its official opening ceremonies next week.
At Seneca Avenue and Gates Avenue, it is the first facility of its kind in the working-class neighborhood of Ridgewood.
Dr. Tirath Sandhu, director of the Cornell University Duck Research Laboratory in Eastport, said it is "the only facility of its kind in this country that's exclusively devoted to ducks".
It was the only facility of its kind in Gaza, and sitting with the injured at Shifa Hospital, Jamila Alaiwa, the 59-year-old social worker who founded the home in 1990, told me of her anxiety about the wellbeing of her other charges.
Court No. 1 is arranged in such a way that spectators can peer down into it from all sides, rather than simply from the rear gallery, as is more com mon, making it probably the finest facility of its kind in the world.
It is the only facility of its kind in the United States and one of only nine in the world.
Many parents said they selected Casa by the Sea because it was the closest facility of its kind to Southern California.
Where/how to try it Drag2Zero is the only facility of its kind in Europe open to the public.
This device, called a "tokamak," is in the midst of a $94 million upgrade that will make it the most powerful fusion facility of its kind in the world when the work is completed in 2014.
When it started production in 2012, it was the first commercial facility of its kind in the country.
It is also the first facility of its kind in the country to provide an alternative to detention or institutionalization for children who run into trouble with the law.
