Thanks to three scientists, including Simon Fraser University's Jeffery Joy, we can now see in OneZoom how a major portion of life originated from one cell and remains interconnected in the Tree of Life. The software has been loade ...

Biology - Other

Apr 01, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 1

Hollywood devotes great effort to chasing monsters through realistic-looking environments. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken have now developed a technology that greatly ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

(Phys.org)—Using new software developed at HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus, a computer can be trained to recognize characteristic animal behaviors like an experienced biologist. Rather than scrutinizing hours of video ...

Biology - Other

Dec 10, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org)—You move, he moves. You smile, he smiles. You get angry, he gets angry. "He" is the avator you chose. Faceshift, from EPFL's Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory, now offers a software program ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Nov 19, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- Two swimming strokes -- one that pulls through the water like a boat paddle and another that whirls to the side like a propeller -- are commonly used by athletes training for the Olympic Games. But elite swimmers ...

Technology - Engineering

Jun 19, 2012 4.3 / 5 (6) 5 |

Octopuses camouflage themselves by matching their body pattern to selected features of nearby objects, rather than trying to match the entire larger field of view, according to new research published in the ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 23, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

A novel software system developed by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been used in the first global camera trap study of mammals, which made international ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 13, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

With the aim of better protecting endangered species, game wardens are studying the behavior of surviving great apes in the wild. This is often painstaking work because it is difficult to distinguish between ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Aug 01, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(AP) -- A Southern California high school is taking the scalpel to frog dissections in biology class as it becomes the first U.S. school to take up animal welfare supporters' offer of free anatomy software.

Other Sciences - Other

May 31, 2011 not rated yet 0

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Young Investigator Research Program is enabling new scientists and engineers with exceptional ability to do creative basic research, enhance their career development ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Oct 22, 2010 not rated yet 0