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What's the best irrigation canal liner?

There are an estimated 1.2 million acres of agricultural land in Texas irrigated via canals, and many are in need of renovation, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

MIT biologist relishes the challenge of picking apart the cell's most complex structure

One of the most important structures in a cell is the nuclear pore complex — a tiny yet complicated channel through which information flows in and out of the cell’s nucleus, directing all other cell ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

The Sun's crowning glory

(Phys.org) -- Those who experience a total solar eclipse are overwhelmed as they look at the circle of light that surrounds our Sun. Laypeople may find it enchanting, but researchers have been racking their ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Harnessing natural light, indoors

(Phys.org) -- Using the most recent generation windows, architects and lighting designers can to control daylight, directing it where they want within a room. An EPFL laboratory has developed a simulation ...

Technology / Software

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

Al Qaeda suspect's porn film found to contain treasure trove of secret documents

A suspected member of the Al Qaeda terrorist group, arrested in May last year in Germany, was found with a memory stick hidden in his underwear. Police discovered the stick contained a password-protected folder ...

Technology / Other

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 44 | with audio podcast report

Algorithmic incentives: New twist on 30 year-old work could lead to better ways of structuring contracts

In 1993, MIT cryptography researchers Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali shared in the first Gödel Prize for theoretical computer science for their work on interactive proofs — a type of mathematic ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create first custom designed protein crystal

Protein design is technique that is increasingly valuable to a variety of fields, from biochemistry to therapeutics to materials engineering. University of Pennsylvania chemists have taken this kind of design ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hackers for hire put corporate security systems to the test

Most weekdays, Jarrad Sims and Tin Tam, a pair of college buddies, ride their bikes to a computer center and try to hack into computer security systems belonging to Boeing Co.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can behavior be controlled by genes? The case of honeybee work assignments

What worker bees do depends on how old they are. A worker a few days old will become a nurse bee that devotes herself to feeding larvae (brood), secreting beeswax to seal the cells that contain brood and attending ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Will 3-D printing launch a new industrial revolution?

Peter Schmitt, an MIT doctoral student, printed a clock in 2009. He didn't print an image of a clock on a piece of paper. He printed a three-dimensional clock -- an eight-inch diameter plastic timekeeping ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (34) | comments 56 | with audio podcast


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