Scientists use math to find oil
Mathematical procedures developed at MIT may soon help energy companies locate new sources of oil many kilometers underground.
Mathematical procedures developed at MIT may soon help energy companies locate new sources of oil many kilometers underground.
Mathematics
Aug 16, 2006
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Computer designers at the University of Rochester are going ballistic. "Everyone has been trying to make better transistors by modifying current designs, but what we really need is the next paradigm," says Quentin Diduck, ...
General Physics
Aug 16, 2006
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In a landmark study, biologists at Florida State University have uncovered a specific genetic and molecular mechanism that causes cell polarity -- the asymmetric shape or composition critical to a cell's proper functioning. ...
Aug 16, 2006
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When a hurricane strikes, authorities are increasingly turning to satellite images and computer-based maps to tell them everything from where the most vulnerable people live to where the closest supply of food, water and ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2006
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NASA personnel continue to sift through 37-year-old records in their attempt to locate the magnetic tapes that recorded the original Apollo 11 video in 1969. The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which ...
Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2006
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An international group of astronomers have discovered large disc galaxies akin to our Milky Way that must have formed on a rapid time scale, only 3 billion years after the Big Bang. In one of these systems, the combination ...
Astronomy
Aug 16, 2006
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The ability of scientists to improve health and disease management of cattle and enhance the nutritional value of beef and dairy products has received a major boost with the release this week of the most complete sequence ...
Aug 16, 2006
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Engineers in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (University of Southampton, UK) have developed a method to make bipolar transistors twice as fast as current devices.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Aug 16, 2006
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A PhD student in the University of Adelaide’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences has found evidence of a collision between northern and central Australia 1.64 billion years ago. Kate Selway says that two billion ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2006
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The world’s astronomers, under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), have concluded two years of work defining the difference between “planets” and the smaller “solar system bodies” such as ...
Astronomy
Aug 16, 2006
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