(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of volunteers has pored over observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and discovered more than 5,000 "bubbles" in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy. Young, hot stars blow these bubbles into ...
Astronomy
Mar 7, 2012
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Two years ago, Martin Rinard's group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposed a surprisingly simple way to make some computer procedures more efficient: Just skip a bunch of steps. Although ...
Computer Sciences
May 23, 2012
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(Phys.org) —In the age of the Internet, it's getting harder and harder to keep secrets. When you type in your password, there's no telling who might be watching it go by. New research at Cornell may offer a pathway to more ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 29, 2013
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Modern software takes computational speed for granted. But modern microprocessors can only speed up by increasing the number of cores. To take full advantage of multiple cores, software developers have to arrange their code ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 12, 2015
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Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 20, 2013
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Medieval authors have had their work brought back to life with 21st century technology in an unexpected collaboration at the University of St Andrews.
Archaeology
May 11, 2021
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The counterintuitive question on how to wrap a curved spherical surface using conventionally stiff and non-stretchable or brittle materials, forms the basis of this study. To answer the question, Yu-Ki Lee and a research ...
What if you could send an e-mail to a co-worker, text a friend or post something on Facebook confident that it would eventually self-destruct?
Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Irish computer scientists have developed a system to improve the helpfulness of online customer reviews. In recognition of the quality of their work, the group received a distinguished paper award at the ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 18, 2009
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Despite advances in computer graphics, few people would think virtual characters or objects are real. Yet placed in a virtual reality environment most people will interact with them as if they are really there. European researchers ...
Computer Sciences
May 11, 2009
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