Evacuation software finds best way to route millions of vehicles
Yi-Chang Chiu wants to move people efficiently — lots of people, millions of people — in response to a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
Computer Sciences
Jun 13, 2007
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Small, self-controlled planes combine plant pathology and engineering
A Virginia Tech plant pathologist has developed autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to detect airborne pathogens above agricultural fields.
Engineering
Jun 13, 2007
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Plants recognize their siblings, biologists discover
The next time you venture into your garden armed with plants, consider who you place next to whom. It turns out that the docile garden plant isn’t as passive as widely assumed, at least not with strangers. Researchers at ...
Jun 13, 2007
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Highway system drives city population declines, says Brown economist
Construction of the American highway system in the late 20th century played a key role in causing population declines in central cities, according to new research by Brown University economist Nathaniel Baum-Snow published ...
Other
Jun 13, 2007
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Physicists discover 'triple-scoop' baryon
Physicists of the DZero experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a new heavy particle, the Ξb (pronounced "zigh sub b") baryon, with a mass of 5.774±0.019 GeV/c2, ...
General Physics
Jun 13, 2007
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The 5 dimensions of online gifts
Different social media, such as wikis, MySpace, Flickr and various forums have different ways for people to give and receive gifts, according to Swedish scientists. To fully understand online gifting and the successes and ...
Internet
Jun 13, 2007
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New Evidence Points to Oceans on Mars
Scientists have found new evidence to support the presence of large oceans on Mars in the past. Published in the June 14 issue of Nature, the research suggests that changes in Mars’ orientation with respect to its axis ...
Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2007
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Biologists unravel the genetic secrets of black widow spider silk
Biologists at the University of California, Riverside have identified the genes, and determined the DNA sequences, for two key proteins in the “dragline silk” of the black widow spider – an advance that may lead to ...
Jun 13, 2007
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A fly lamin gene is both like and unlike human genes
Mitch Dushay and colleagues at Uppsala University in Sweden announce the publication of their paper, "Characterization of lamin Mutation Phenotypes in Drosophila and Comparison to Human Laminopathies" in the June 13th issue ...
Jun 13, 2007
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