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How to control complex networks

At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system futile.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study shows evolutionary adaptations can be reversed, but rarely

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in 1859, scientists have wondered whether evolutionary adaptations can be reversed.

Biology / Evolution

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Chemist investigates material for next-generation computer memory

Investigating the building blocks for next-generation computer memory has earned a University of Houston (UH) chemist his third Tier One research award.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Exploring the future with modern information technology

European researchers are seeking to create a global computer model named FuturICT, a collective analysis platform for a better understanding of the world. The visionary idea is to design this knowledge accelerator ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wrong strategy could worsen dengue epidemics: study

The wrong approach to wiping out the mosquitoes that cause dengue infections could lead to worse epidemics in the future, according to a study released Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New method helps solve several baffling puzzles in protein molecular structure

The structures of many protein molecules remain unsolved even after experts apply an extensive array of approaches. An international collaboration has led to a new, high-performance method that rapidly determined ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Eddies found to be deep, powerful modes of ocean transport

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their colleagues have discovered that massive, swirling ocean eddies -- known to be up to 500 kilometers across at the surface ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Using supercomputers to understand the super stars of the cosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it a high-speed graphic animation of a yellow-golden cauliflower erupting in fast motion? No. Maybe it's some kind of time-lapse, computer-generated X-ray of a brain as it grows over years. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Habitat restoration could help species to cope with climate change

Animals and plants may need extra habitats to survive the challenge of climate change, according to research by scientists at the University of York.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cleaner vehicle standards good for health, agriculture, climate

A new analysis, published this week and conducted by a team of scientists led by Drew Shindell of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, shows stricter vehicle emission standards ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Biomedical engineers develop computational model to better understand genomes

Biomedical engineers have developed a computational model that will help biological researchers clearly identify the significance of variations between different genomes — the complex sequences of DNA and RNA at the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Airplane contrails worse than CO2 emissions for global warming: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Climate Change, Dr. Ulrike Burkhardt and Dr. Bernd Karcher from the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the German Aerospace Centre show that the co ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 58 | with audio podcast report

USGS finds 2,000-year-old coral near BP Gulf well

(AP) -- Federal scientists say they have dated coral living near the site of the busted BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2,000 years old.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers make the leap to whole-cell simulations

Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that – in a test of its response to sugar in its environment – accurately simulates the behavior of living cells.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

From candy floss to rock: Study provides new evidence about beginnings of the solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- The earliest rocks in our Solar System were more like candy floss than the hard rock that we know today, according to research published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast