News tagged with collection
Language change can be traced using gigantic text archives
(PhysOrg.com) -- Historical collections that include everything ever written in a dozen American and British newspapers since they started are now available electronically. Donald MacQueen from Uppsala University, Sweden, ...
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Fluid Dynamics Research to Make Peeing in Space More Comfortable and Sanitary (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering students at UC San Diego are studying the fluid dynamics of water in order to build a more comfortable and sanitary urine collection device for space travel.
Jun 02, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (6) |
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Analysis of Flickr photos could lead to online travel books
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have downloaded and analyzed nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe, using a supercomputer at the Cornell Center ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Open source mobile technology software reinventing health care in developing countries
Dr. Joel Selanikio's innovative technology is not only saving lives, it is changing the face of the public health system around the world. Merging his expertise in the areas of computer science, medicine and ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
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Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (10) |
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New bird discovered after its extinction
After almost 120 years in the Natural History Museum collections, a new Colombian bird has been discovered, and proclaimed extinct.
Mar 26, 2009 |
3.8 / 5 (4) |
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Ancestry hunters' bonanza as London records go online
Some 77 million documents dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries and including the ancestors of David Beckham and Britney Spears are to go online, under a service launched Thursday.
Mar 26, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
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Review: Plug-in software that fine tunes iTunes
(AP) -- I generally like the way Apple Inc.'s iTunes orchestrates my music collection, but sometimes it hits a wrong chord on the older and more eclectic CDs transferred to my computer.
Mar 25, 2009 |
2 / 5 (2) |
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Nice guys can finish first and so can their teams
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever thought the other guy was a loser for giving his all for the team even if others weren't pulling their weight?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
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What do Biological Cells and Democracy Have in Common?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) and Harvard University offer a groundbreaking new perspective on how genes determine and regulate the functional identity of a cell. The study, ...
Biology /
Feb 19, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
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Inuit are on the right track
Inuit trails are more than merely means to get from A to B. In reality, they represent a complex social network spanning the Canadian Arctic and are a distinctive aspect of the Inuit cultural identity. And what is remarkable ...
Biology /
Feb 04, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
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It's the network: Researchers examine behavior influenced by network structure
A team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania investigating the political, social and economic struggle between individual self-interest and the need to build a consensus have learned that, depending only ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (5) |
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Scientists use Brownian Motion to Explore How Birds Flock Together
(PhysOrg.com) -- How do thousands of fish swim together in giant schools, seemingly moving as a single body? Flocks of birds, herds of beasts, and a variety of other animals in nature seem to share this same ...
Jan 23, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (37) |
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Putting heads (and computers) together to solve global problems
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine if the planet's collective brainpower and computing power could be brought together to tackle some of the world's toughest problems, including global climate change and cancer. It may sound like science ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
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