(PhysOrg.com) -- Rajeeb Hazra, Intel’s general manger of technical computing, surprised a group attending this year’s SC11 conference, at a steak house in Seattle this past week, by holding up a single chip and ...
Alternative lighting is emerging as a potent method to combat the energy crisis. Light-emitting diode (LED) lighting technologies could provide an innovative way to save energy and make wasteful lighting obsolete.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2011
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Tablets are fast becoming the media device of choice nowadays for work and play, particularly with the advent of iPads and the Samsung Galaxy Tab into the mobile device market. With a volume of 19.5 million of media tablet ...
Hardware
Nov 17, 2011
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It has long been known that cells release chemical signals in response to outside conditions, triggering reactions inside the cell.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 17, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Every few years the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) holds a public competition to stretch the outer limits of what technology can do. Two years ago they dispersed 10 large, ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 17, 2011
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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but an apple by another name could fetch a much sweeter price for farmers.
Economics & Business
Nov 17, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first statewide climate change outlook for New York, scientists say that the state may suffer disproportionate effects in coming decades compared with other regions, due to its geography and geology. ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2011
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Smartphones are capable of many things, from identifying your location and bringing you the news to playing video games. Now, thanks to a UConn professor’s efforts to make lectures and class discussion available on mobile ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As schools across the country face mounting state and federal pressure to overhaul teacher evaluation, a pilot initiative in Chicago provides evidence that principals are able to assess teachers accurately ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2011
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Human-like performance in speech technology could be just around the corner, thanks to a new research project that links three UK universities.
Computer Sciences
Nov 17, 2011
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