News tagged with reconstruction

Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

OrcaM is new kid on block for 3-D data capture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Call it automated photograph station, seven-camera system, 3-D model showcase, or digital reconstruction tool. OrcaM is being described as all these things. Whatever the tag, the "OrcaM" name ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 19 | with audio podcast report

Creating 3D models with a simple webcam (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Constructing virtual 3D models usually requires heavy and expensive equipment, or takes lengthy amounts of time. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge, Qi Pan, Dr Gerhard Reitmayr ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (28) | comments 6

'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data

(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful, newly refined image-processing technique may allow astronomers to discover extrasolar planets that are possibly lurking in over a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope archival ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

'Bed-of-nails' breast implant deters cancer cells

One in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer. Of those, many will undergo surgery to remove the tumor and will require some kind of breast reconstruction afterward, often involving implants. ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Imaging instruction: Researchers produce 'primer' to guide the use of STORM

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it was quickly adopted by the scientific community, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang worried that researchers using the system of technology ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flying snakes, caught on tape (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- New video analysis and mathematical modeling by engineers at Virginia Tech reveals how certain types of snakes can "fly" by flinging themselves off their perches, flattening their bodies, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Ancient woman suggests diverse migration

A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas appears to support theories that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated from a broader area than once ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 8

High-performance engineering used to design facial bone replacements

Scientists are using the engineering technology behind the creation of high-performance aircraft components to design 3-D models for the replacement of delicate and complex facial bones lost to cancer surgery ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sugary band-aid may help heal post-operative tissue

A compound found in sunless tanning spray may help to heal wounds following surgery, according to new results published by plastic surgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's first skeletal mount of Paluxysaurus jonesi reveals new biology

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Early Cretaceous sauropod Paluxysaurus jonesi weighed 20 tons, was 60 feet long and had a neck 26 feet long, according to scientists who prepared the world's first full skeletal mount ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

New temperature reconstruction from Indo-Pacific warm pool

A new 2,000-year-long reconstruction of sea surface temperatures (SST) from the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) suggests that temperatures in the region may have been as warm during the Medieval Warm Period ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Cold case techniques bring mummy's face to life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the skills of artists who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what the Oriental Institute’s mummy Meresamun may have looked like in real life.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The method of repairing Cadiz's walls has hardly changed since the 17th century

In the year 1596, a sacking at the hands of the Count of Essex almost destroyed the city of Cadiz. Since then, authorities have focused their efforts on establishing a barrier between the city and the sea, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0