Building on the eminent interdisciplinary tradition at the University of Chicago, the School of Social Service Administration has launched a new initiative that will take its multidisciplinary problem-solving approach to ...
Social Sciences
Jun 8, 2011
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When the current financial crisis hit, the failure of traditional economic doctrines to provide any sort of early warning shocked not only financial experts worldwide, but also governments and the general public, and we all ...
Mathematics
Jun 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Optimizing school bus routes is a lot more complicated than one might think. The International School of Geneva handed their problem over to a group of EPFL mathematicians.
Mathematics
Jun 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Can defective chips be reused? An EU-funded team of scientists says they can.
Computer Sciences
Jun 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Like an opera singer hitting a note that shatters a glass, a signal at a particular resonant frequency can concentrate energy in a material and change its properties. And as with 18th century "musical glasses," ...
General Physics
Jun 8, 2011
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As millions of acres of farmland in the U.S. Midwest and South recover from Mississippi River flooding, scientists report that river flooding can increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in farm soils. But ...
Environment
Jun 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers are working to reduce the uncertainty associated with climate-change measurements using a mobile temperature-sensing technology made for tracking ...
Engineering
Jun 8, 2011
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Antioxidants are popular anti-aging ingredients in skin creams, and now scientists are reporting a new source of these healthful substances — leaf buds of poplar trees. Their study appears in the ACS' Journal of Agricultural ...
Biochemistry
Jun 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Depending on whom you ask, nanoparticles are, potentially, either one of the most promising or the most perilous creations of science. These tiny objects can deliver drugs efficiently and enhance the properties ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 8, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Robotic automation, microrobotics and robotic perception and recognition all advanced a few steps closer to their future applications in manufacturing, health care and other areas during the week of May 9-13, ...
Robotics
Jun 8, 2011
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