News tagged with scientific visualization

NASA views our perpetually moving ocean

(Phys.org) -- The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of ocean currents.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Modified HDTV screens used for 3-D technology (w/ Video)

Surround 3-D TV is poised to take over your living room. For the first time, a team of researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration

(PhysOrg.com) -- Normally, virtual worlds are the setting of many online games and entertainment applications, but now they’re becoming a place for scientific collaboration and outreach, as well. A team of ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 2 feature




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SLAC X-ray laser used to probe biomolecules to individual atoms

An international team led by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has proved how the world's most powerful X-ray laser can assist in cracking the structures of biomolecules, and in the processes helped to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Unzipped' carbon nanotubes could help energize fuel cells, batteries

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes riddled with defects and impurities on the outside could replace some of the expensive platinum catalysts used in fuel cells and metal-air batteries, according to scientists at ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New tool for visualizing the distribution of vascular plants in Belgium

The Belgian Biodiversity Platform has just released a new website "IFBL Data Portal, Explore Flora Checklists of Belgium". It aggregates about 23,000 checklists of vascular plants in Belgium, compiled since 1939 ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MIT biologist relishes the challenge of picking apart the cell's most complex structure

One of the most important structures in a cell is the nuclear pore complex — a tiny yet complicated channel through which information flows in and out of the cell’s nucleus, directing all other cell ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A new optical microscopy approach opens the door to better observations in molecular biology

Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have set up a new optical microscopy approach that combines two recent imaging techniques in order to visualize molecular assemblies without affecting their biological ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The teacher is central to successful use of computers in schools

The idea of one computer per student is becoming increasingly common in the Swedish school system. The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is now conducting several studies on the educational consequences of the so-called 1:1 ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Battle of the sexes offers evolutionary insights

In a paper published May 3, in the journal Evolution, University of Cincinnati graduate student Karl Grieshop and Michal Polak, associate professor of biological sciences at UC, examine the role of genita ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast

OSC's Tomko to champion high-performance computing

A senior researcher in computer science at the Ohio Supercomputer Center has been designated a Campus Champion – charged with empowering researchers and educators to advance scientific discovery by serving ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find new form of Mars lava flow

High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mars. The ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

See Dan read: Baboons can learn to spot real words

Dan the baboon sits in front of a computer screen. The letters BRRU pop up. With a quick and almost dismissive tap, the monkey signals it's not a word. Correct. Next comes, ITCS. Again, not a word. Finally ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 18


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