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Early identification of dementia increasingly difficult

If grandma seems to forget things, will she end up demented? These days, memory loss is one of the very few symptoms that may signal which 70-year-olds risk developing dementia. This is shown in a doctoral thesis at the Sahlgrenska ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Robots in the classroom

Tore Fløan smiles at me: “In the past we competed with European organizations, but now we have the Chinese breathing down our necks,” he says.

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers solve scaling challenge for multi-core chips

Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced that they have identified a path to overcome ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researcher tests performance of diverse HPC architectures

Surveying the wide range of parallel system architectures offered in the supercomputer market, an Ohio State University researcher recently sought to establish some side-by-side performance comparisons.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wind turbines that learn like humans

Depending on the weather, wind turbines can face whispering breezes or gale-force gusts. Such variable conditions make extracting the maximum power from the turbines a tricky control problem, but a collaboration of Chinese ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Scale-out processors: Bridging the efficiency gap between servers and emerging cloud workloads

Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant computing platform providing billions of users world-wide with online services. The software applications powering these services, commonly referred to as scale-out workloads and ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hail to the geeks

Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held Friday and Saturday in Boston, heavily showcased ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ancient 'graffiti' unlock the life of the common man

History is often shaped by the stories of kings and religious and military leaders, and much of what we know about the past derives from official sources like military records and governmental decrees. Now ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Actor Alan Alda sponsors 'fiery' science contest

American actor Alan Alda remembers the disappointment of being 11 and asking a teacher about the flame at the end of a candle, only to be brushed off with the answer: "It's oxidation."

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

New Nokia phone no standout, but worth a look

The first of Nokia's new generation of smartphones isn't flashy and certainly isn't an iPhone killer. But it's a nice device, and at $40 with a two-year contract, a bargain.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 4

S. Korea's Hynix swings to red in Q4 on poor demand

South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest maker of memory chips, said Thursday it swung into the red in the fourth quarter as chip prices fell on weak demand for personal computers.

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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