Where you are and what you're doing increasingly play key roles in how you search the Internet. In fact, your search may just conduct itself. This concept, called "contextual search," is improving so gradually the changes ...

Technology - Internet

May 02, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Larissa Fast, assistant professor of conflict resolution at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, has co-authored three new research reports documenting and analyzing the dangers facing ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 18, 2013 not rated yet 1

University of Notre Dame researchers have successfully created three-dimensional anatomical models from CT scans using 3-D printing technology, a process that holds promise for medical professionals and their patients. A ...

Technology - Engineering

Apr 03, 2013 not rated yet 0

Sometimes, little things can add up to a lot. In short, that's the message of a research study on small dams, streams and pollution by Steve Powers, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame's Environmental ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A new research paper by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Environmental Change Initiative (ECI) demonstrates how two cutting-edge technologies can provide a sensitive and real-time solution to screening ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —In August 2011, researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were presented with a serious, and potentially very costly, puzzle in Kennewick, Wash. Since Kennewick lies within a region ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 22, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Troubled online coupon giant Groupon fired its quirky founder and CEO Andrew Mason Thursday (Feb. 28) following another disappointing quarter, and University of Notre Dame Management Professor Timothy Judge says, "Clearly, ...

Technology - Business

Mar 04, 2013 not rated yet 0

Bridal registries might be efficient – sparing the gift-giver from hours of shopping and the recipient from having to return unwanted items. But that convenience may come at a cost: Where once the mom held great sway over ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 26, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—new paper by researchers at the University of Notre Dame provides new insights into speciation, which is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 18, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

We've heard the clichés: "It was love at first sight," "It's inner beauty that truly matters," and "Opposites attract." But what's really at work in selecting a romantic or sexual partner?

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Feb 08, 2013 3.6 / 5 (9) 0

Every day scientists learn more about how the world works at the smallest scales. While this knowledge has the potential to help others, it's possible that the same discoveries can also be used in ways that cause widespread ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Jan 25, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

As the gun control debate continues, Kevin D. Bradford, an associate professional specialist in marketing at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, says the focus should be on those who distribute guns, ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jan 23, 2013 not rated yet 2

Catholics are less generous than other American Christians, according to a study recently published by the University of Notre Dame's Catholic Social and Pastoral Research Initiative (CSPRI).

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jan 22, 2013 3.1 / 5 (8) 8

(Phys.org)—Galaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel—in this case fresh gas, but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies. Now scientists have provided ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Jan 10, 2013 4 / 5 (3) 3 |

As a new year approaches, the University of Notre Dame's John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values has announced its first annual list of emerging ethical dilemmas and policy issues in Science and Technology ...

Other Sciences - Other

Dec 17, 2012 3.5 / 5 (2) 5