A team of engineers from the University of Seville (US) has created a system for monitoring historical monuments by remote control and detecting possible damage. Five years ago the researchers placed various sensors on the ...
Engineering
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An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist is helping to sort through the jumbled genetics of Echinacea, the coneflower known for its blossoms--and its potential for treating infections, inflammation, and other human ...
Ecology
Mar 5, 2010
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Today, computers can't reliably identify the objects in digital images. But if they could, they could comb through hours of video for the two or three minutes that a viewer might be interested in, or perform web searches ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 5, 2010
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Innovative sound-mapping software based on human hearing has been developed to help architects design out unwanted noise.
Software
Mar 5, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the development of new drugs, photoaffinity labels (PALs) are a versatile tool to investigate the interaction between a receptor and a drug or a ligand. Researchers working with Stephanie Grond at the ...
Biochemistry
Mar 5, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This animation, made up of eight Envisat radar images, shows the 97-km long B-9B iceberg (right) ramming into the Mertz Glacier Tongue in Eastern Antarctica in early February. The collision caused a chunk ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2010
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Singaporeans consume around 275,000 tons of rice each year, which requires 688 billion liters of water to be produced - 2.5 times Singapore's annual domestic water use.
Environment
Mar 5, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In research published in the March 4 issue of the journal Nature, Northeastern University physicists have pioneered the development of large-scale computer simulations to assess how cracks form and proliferate ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 5, 2010
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France had the first one back in the 12th century. In 1980, less than 60 existed worldwide. But since then, the number had doubled.
Economics & Business
Mar 5, 2010
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Cells may not have a mouth, but they still need to ingest substances from the external environment. If this process - known as endocytosis - is affected, it can lead to infectious diseases or cardio-vascular diseases, cancer, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 5, 2010
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