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Make or break for cellular tissues

In a study about to be published in the European Physical Journal E, French physicists from the Curie Institute in Paris have demonstrated that the behaviour of a thin layer of cells in contact with an unfavourable substr ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fujitsu introduces world's fastest CMOS 14-bit digital-to-analog converter

Fujitsu Semiconductor today announced its first 3rd generation high performance Digital to Analog Converter Application Specific Standard Product (ASSP). The MB86066 ‘Anakin’ DAC combines 14-bit ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mexico billionaires battle over telecoms sector

Battles between three Mexican billionaires over control of the lucrative telecoms sector heated up again this week, intensified by international criticism of monopolistic practices.

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

TV channel squeeze proposed to pay for tax cuts

(AP) -- Call it the Great Channel Squeeze.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

TV companies have a year to pipe down loud ads

(AP) -- Shush, already. That's the message the Federal Communications Commission is sending with new rules that force broadcast, cable and satellite companies to turn down the volume on blaring TV commercials.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 8

Researchers link patterns seen in spider silk, melodies

Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Monkeys also reason through analogy

Recognizing relations between relations is what analogy is all about. What lies behind this ability? Is it uniquely human? A study carried out by Joël Fagot of the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (France) and Roger ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A single 3-D glasses standard might help 3-D TVs catch on

With 3-D TV sales not meeting their grandest expectations, set makers have decided it's better to stand together, then fall apart. They're now rallying behind a standard for 3-D active shutter glasses, though the fruits of ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Is this how simple life got complicated?

A new study has created an analog of what researchers think the first multicellular cooperation might have looked like, showing that yeast cells—in an environment that requires them to work for their food—grow and ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Wireless 'breadcrumbs' that won’t become toast when baked... or soggy when hosed

When Hansel and Gretel ventured into the forest, they left a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way home. In today's world, cellular phones, Global Positioning System (GPS), WiFi, and Bluetooth are the digital ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toshiba's new technology cuts phase noise in oscillation ICs for wireless communication

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed noise reduction technology that reduces jitter in radio-frequency signals, cutting phase noise by up to 90 percent. This breakthrough opens the way for a further migration ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Regulator to join Comcast after OK of NBC deal

(AP) -- A top telecommunications regulator who voted to approve Comcast Corp.'s takeover of NBCUniversal in January is leaving to join the company as a lobbyist.

Technology / Telecom

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

World's highest performance RF digital-to-analog converter announced by NXP

NXP Semiconductors today announced the DAC1627D – a 16-bit dual-channel LVDS DDR interface Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) which supports output update rates of up to 1.25 Gsps. In terms of dynamic ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Ancient Greek calculating device continues to reveal secrets

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's known as the Antikythera mechanism, a metal gear driven device found over a century ago on a sunken Roman ship, near the island of Antikythera, that for just as many years has had scien ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 39 | with audio podcast report

Texas Instruments to buy National Semiconductor

Computer chip maker Texas Instruments said Monday it would buy California rival National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion in an all cash deal.

Technology / Business

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0