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Experimental smart outlet brings flexibility, resiliency to grid architecture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sandia National Laboratories has developed an experimental "smart outlet" that autonomously measures, monitors and controls electrical loads with no connection to a centralized computer or ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Courts endangering religious freedom, academic claims

Studying recent cases in the UK, USA, Canada and mainland Europe, Oxford University philosopher Professor Roger Trigg has identified a trend towards curtailing religious freedom in favour of other social priorities ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

IBM attacks the complexity of security with identity intelligence

IBM announced a new identity intelligence breakthrough designed in IBM labs to provide corporations with a far more sophisticated approach to managing the information employees can access. 

Technology / Software

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists model brain structure to help computers recognize objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- An essential question confronting neuroscientists and computer vision researchers alike is how objects can be identified by simply "looking" at an image. Introspectively, we know that the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The end of an era?

At Binghamton University’s Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, scholars view the world through a unique lens.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Samsung grows ever bigger, but icon status elusive

If you own a consumer electronics gadget, there's a good chance something from Samsung makes it tick. The company has traveled far from its roots as a seller of cheap appliances in the 1970s and 1980s when ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4

How many species on Earth? 8.7 million

Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million).

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Editing the genome

The power to edit genes is as revolutionary, immediately useful and unlimited in its potential as was Johannes Gutenberg's printing press. And like Gutenberg's invention, most DNA editing tools are slow, expensive, and hard ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Being small has its advantages, if you are a leaf

(PhysOrg.com) -- The size of leaves can vary by a factor of 1,000 across plant species, but until now, the reason why has remained a mystery. A new study by an international team of scientists led by UCLA ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Manakins, birds of tropical forests, cooperate for common goal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Leks, they're called, gatherings of males of certain animal species for competitive mating displays. But not every lek's members are competitors, scientists have learned. Some--birds called ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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