"It seems like Nature has some secret that lets it make complicated stuff in an effortless way," Stephen Wolfram recently told an audience at Oxford University’s Mathematical Institute.
Mathematics
Jul 2, 2012
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TDK Corporation has developed a multilayer band pass filter in size 1005 that is significantly smaller than the existing 1608 types.
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jul 2, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- University of Sussex biologists studying Brazilian big-headed ants have discovered how one species uses powerful scent trails to quickly recruit helpers in transporting prized food in a competitive environment ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- It looks like a plastic candy wrapper that’s been charred on both sides, but it may hold the solution to commercially viable fuel cells.
Materials Science
Jul 2, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- NASA's special "Webb-cam," the camera in a giant clean room at NASA Goddard, now has "double vision," because there are two video cameras now focusing on what's happening with the very first completed instrument ...
Space Exploration
Jul 2, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- On July 5, NASA will launch a sounding rocket mission called the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation or SUMI, to study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields on the sun in a hard-to-observe ...
Space Exploration
Jul 2, 2012
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It’s not about how much information you have but what you can do with it that matters. This is the case for the deluge of data and information that abounds in today’s fast paced, information technology-dependent ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 2, 2012
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Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Fujitsu today announced their joint development of an indoor support system for the blind that uses ultra wide band (UWB) technology and a ...
Engineering
Jul 2, 2012
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Canada’s leading retailers take the lion’s share of the nation’s retail economy, according to a new report by Ryerson University’s Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity (CSCA). According to the centre’s ...
Economics & Business
Jul 2, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Astronomers have found evidence of hundreds of black holes in a galaxy 250 million light years away. The discovery, made with a worldwide network of radio telescopes, gives scientists a new way to find out how ...
Astronomy
Jul 2, 2012
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