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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

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

Cell-inspired electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. In one second, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

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

The cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed

Applied mathematicians dissected the morphology of the plantain lily (Hosta lancifolia), a characteristic long leaf with a saddle-like arc midsection and closely packed ripples along the edges. The simple ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Don't change that channel: DTV woes still abound

(AP) -- Think the digital TV transition is over? Not quite. Many viewers have found that they can't pick up certain stations after the switch, even with the right TVs or converter boxes. The stations are still trying to ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New Wi-Fi Technology Using White Spaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- A wireless internet network that uses portions of the old analog TV spectrum may one day become a reality. The plans for a computer network that uses "white spaces," which are empty fragments ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 weblog

700,000 callers phone digital TV hot line

(AP) -- Nearly 700,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts that occurred Friday.

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 13, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Friday is final curtain for analog TV signals

(AP) -- The last major TV stations that are still broadcasting in analog will turn those signals off Friday and go all digital. And this time, they really mean it.

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are de ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | 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

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