News tagged with translation

Time crystals could behave almost like perpetual motion machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- As every young science student knows, moving objects have kinetic energy. But just how much energy does something need to move? In a new study, a pair of physicists has shown that it’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (34) | comments 39 | with audio podcast report

Many cancer cells found to have an 'eat me' signal

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that many cancer cells carry the seeds of their own destruction — a protein on the cell surface that signals circulating immune cells to engulf ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Computer automatically deciphers ancient language

In his 2002 book Lost Languages, Andrew Robinson, then the literary editor of the London Times' higher-education supplement, declared that "successful archaeological decipherment has turned out to require ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Internet set for change with non-English addresses

(AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 31

DoCoMo demonstrates spoken language translator for smartphones

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese cellular service company NTT DoCoMo, recently demonstrated a smartphone cloud based app that allows users speaking different languages to communicate with one another by translating ...

Technology / Software

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Some monkeys born with gene that protects against AIDS

A certain gene in some monkeys can help boost vaccine protection against simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a trait that could help researchers develop better AIDS vaccines for humans, suggested a study ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research moves nanomedicine one step closer to reality

A class of engineered nanoparticles -- gold-centered spheres smaller than viruses -- has been shown safe when administered by two alternative routes in a mouse study led by investigators at the Stanford University School ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New site to use crowd-sourcing as means to translate the internet

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you're Google and you're looking for the next crowd-sourcing piece to add to your already massive portfolio, it would seem Professor Luis von Ahn, of Carnegie Mellon, would be your man. After several previous ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

DARPA issues BAA for advanced robotic translator

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the procurement of research leading to an advanced robotic device capable of performing ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

New fusion gene plays role in some stomach cancers

A newly discovered hybrid gene appears to play a direct role in some stomach cancers, according to an international team of scientists led by researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify promising new treatment for childhood leukemia

An experimental drug lessens symptoms of a rare form of childhood leukemia and offers significant insight into the cellular development of the disease, according to findings from a new UCSF study. The mouse model research ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hand-held NMR instrument yields rapid analysis of human tumors

Using a handheld molecular imaging device in combination with magnetic nanoparticles and a smartphone, a team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has developed a fast, portable ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pig model of cystic fibrosis improves understanding of disease

It's been more than 20 years since scientists first discovered the gene that causes cystic fibrosis (CF), yet questions about how the mutated gene causes disease remain unanswered.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google translation 'app' hits iPhone

Google software that turns iPhones into interpreters became available at Apple's online App Store on Tuesday.

Technology / Software

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 15