News tagged with element analysis

Scientists use physical experiments, computer modelling to explore efficiency of bladed tooth shape

Using a combination of guillotine-based experiments and cutting-edge computer modelling, researchers at the University of Bristol have explored the most efficient ways for teeth to slice food. Their results, ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New method reveals parts of bacterium genome essential to life

A team at the Stanford University School of Medicine has cataloged, down to the letter, exactly what parts of the genetic code are essential for survival in one bacterial species, Caulobacter crescentus.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

'FEAsy' analyzes designs from raw sketches to speed parts creation (w/ Video)

Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

High-tech tests allow anthropologists to track ancient hominids across the landscape

Dazzling new scientific techniques are allowing archaeologists to track the movements and menus of extinct hominids through the seasons and years as they ate their way across the African landscape, helping ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0