Archive: 03/30/2007
New algorithms improve automated image labeling
A Google image search for "tiger" yields many tiger photos – but also returns images of a tiger pear cactus stuck in a tire, a racecar, Tiger Woods, the boxer Dick Tiger, Antarctica, and many others. Why? Today’s ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Handheld instrument assesses dental disease in minutes
Who would have guessed that when the Star Trek medical diagnostic tool known as the tricorder makes its appearance in real life, the first user might be . . . your dentist.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Danish researches solve virus puzzle
How is virus as for example HIV and bird flu able to make the cells within a human body work for the purpose of the virus? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen shed new light on this question.
Biology /
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Rosetta and New Horizons watch Jupiter in joint campaign
ESA’s Rosetta and NASA’s New Horizons are working together in their joint campaign to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta’s Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates that the data ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2007 |
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For clean air
In addition to nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, many volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air contribute to smog and high ozone levels, as well as potentially damaging human health. Clean-air laws are thus rightly continuing ...
Mar 30, 2007 |
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Oil production in the world close to peak
In a worst-case scenario, global oil production may reach its peak next year, before starting to decline. In a best-case scenario, this peak would not be reached until 2018. These are the estimates made by Fredrik Robelius, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2007 |
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New Adaptive Optics technique demonstrated
On the evening of 25 March 2007, the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) achieved First Light at the Visitor Focus of Melipal, the third Unit Telescope of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). MAD allowed the scientists ...
Mar 30, 2007 |
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