News tagged with research integrity

Researchers take steps toward fast, low-cost DNA sequencing device

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Yale University have developed a new concept for use in a high-speed genomic sequencing device that may have the potential to substantially drive down costs.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have built the first carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor with a channel length below 10 nm, a size that is considered a requirement for computing technology in the next decade. Not ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 32 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers attack a stinker of a pest; iPhone users can help track the invader

A new hobo pest -- the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) -- is pigging out on many of North America's most important crops, posing an unprecedented threat to U.S. agriculture, say experts.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

RIM buys mobile social game developer

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion announced Tuesday it has purchased Scoreloop, a Germany-based company which makes a toolkit for developers to add social features to mobile games.

Technology / Business

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Universal standards' for research integrity may have unintended consequences

The global scientific community is capable of policing its own behavior and should resist creation of a central oversight body to enforce 'universal standards' that may have unintended consequences, a renowned physicist and ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 18

A new code of conduct for researchers

A new European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity will be presented by the European Science Foundation at the World Conference on Research Integrity. The code addresses good practice and bad conduct in science, offering ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Easy assembly of electronic biological chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- A handheld, ultra-portable device that can recognize and immediately report on a wide variety of environmental or medical compounds may eventually be possible, using a method that incorporates ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0