A team of chemists from the University of Seville (US, Spain) has managed to distinguish between different kinds of tea leaves on the basis of their mineral content and by using artificial neural networks. This technique ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 30, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers help smaller processors outperform a single superfast processor by working more efficiently in parallel.
Computer Sciences
Jul 7, 2010
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In constructing an evolutionary tree of life, scientists have granted themselves and the rest of us humans a genus, Homo, all to ourselves. But there’s no getting around the fact that we’re in the same family with chimpanzees ...
Evolution
Jun 28, 2010
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Researchers have devised a new kind of random number generator, for encrypted communications and other uses, that is cryptographically secure, inherently private and - most importantly - certified random by laws of physics.
Quantum Physics
Apr 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nathan Clement is still a few courses away from earning a bachelor's degree, but he's already credited with a significant advance in the field of DNA sequencing.
Biotechnology
Mar 3, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 25, 2010
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A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In order to infer ...
General Physics
Nov 23, 2009
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In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wandering across a ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 29, 2009
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We intuitively understand the value of being able to make things smaller without sacrificing performance. The endeavor produces smaller speakers with bigger sound and a host of portable electronic devices such as digital ...
Software
Sep 18, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation has been performed ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 3, 2009
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