News tagged with archive project
Efforts to save endangered languages
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are an estimated 6,500 languages in the world, with around fifty percent of them endangered and likely to cease to exist by 2100, but efforts are now being made to save them from extinction.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Technology brings new insights to ancient language
(PhysOrg.com) -- New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously ...
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Life mag goes online through Google scan project
(AP) -- Decades of Life magazine have been scanned and posted online, giving the public the first comprehensive electronic access to the iconic publication's archives.
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo! oppose Google book settlement
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance Wednesday opposing the legal settlement which would allow Internet giant Google to digitize and sell millions of books.
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Project to examine 'Yeti' DNA
(Phys.org) -- A new collaboration between Oxford University and the Lausanne Museum of Zoology will use the latest genetic techniques to investigate organic remains that some have claimed belong to the ‘Yeti’ ...
May 23, 2012 |
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Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time
The Wellcome Library is to bring the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of a ground-breaking digitisation project, ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’.
May 17, 2012 |
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NIST hydrogen fuel materials test facility starts delivering data
(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published their first archival paper based on data from the institute’s new hydrogen test facility. The paper ...
May 16, 2012 |
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Internet allows virtual Giza tour in 3D
Vicarious travellers and students of history can take a virtual stroll through the vast necropolis build by the ancient Egyptians in the Giza Plateau, thanks to a 3D Internet project launched this week.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 11, 2012 |
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Glastonbury Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry
(Phys.org) -- New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence of glass-making in Britain.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 08, 2012 |
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Climatic effects of a solar minimum
An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 years ago. Scientists from the German Research Centre for Geosciences ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 06, 2012 |
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Architecture of experience
Krystal Tung ’13 wanted to follow the yellow brick road. When the Cabot House resident heard that this spring’s House musical would be “The Wizard of Oz,” she headed straight for the stage.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 03, 2012 |
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Libraries: sandbox space for new technology
Libraries could be a testing ground for new technology such as Google's augmented-reality glasses and advances enabled by the roll-out of the National Broadband Network, a QUT expert says.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 01, 2012 |
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Nokia uses 'white spaces' technology for indoor positioning (w/ Video)
Scott Probasco is roaming the floor of the hanger at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, with a Nokia N9 attached to a small box. He passes Concorde, turns right at a World War One bi-plane and pauses underneath ...
Apr 30, 2012 |
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New study reveals a hidden nuclear history
On the week of the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the first-ever study of nuclear engineers has shown how they were shaped by secrecy and shifting goals. First defined by the Second World War’s Manhattan ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 30, 2012 |
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