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We’ll Be Back After These Messages -- Will You?

(PhysOrg.com) -- For at least 50 years, television advertisements have been ordered randomly within commercial breaks. But given the spread of digital video recorders (DVR) that allow users to blip-blip past the ads in fast-forward, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 4




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Robot uses 3-D imaging and sensor-based cutting technology to debone poultry

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a prototype system that uses advanced imaging technology and a robotic cutting arm to automatically debone chicken and ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

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

Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images

Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The 3D Lyrid meteor shower

This weekend, NASA scientists, amateur astronomers, and an astronaut on board the International Space Station will attempt the first-ever 3D photography of meteors from Earth and space.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Novel coding technique patented

Over the past decade, tablet computers and smartphones have taken the world by storm, in no small part due to the way in which they can be switched on almost instantly. The race has been on to develop computers that can similarly ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Sometimes the quickest path is not a straight line

Sometimes the fastest pathway from point A to point B is not a straight line: for example, if you’re underwater and contending with strong and shifting currents. But figuring out the best route in such ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Aiding cancer therapy by mathematically modeling tumor-immune interactions

Cancer is one of the five leading causes of death. And yet, despite decades of research, there is no standardized first-line treatment for most cancers. In addition, disappointing results from predominant second-line treatments ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research team applies mathematical modeling and algorithms to learning process

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people inherently understand that they have a unique way of studying material for a test that suits their unique personality. Unfortunately, such differences between people tend to create problems for ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Lawrence Livermore ramps up wind energy research

As the percentage of wind energy contributing to the power grid continues to increase, the variable nature of wind can make it difficult to keep the generation and the load balanced.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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