A new web tool allows researchers to obtain higher protein yields for a range of life sciences applications including biosensing and drug manufacturing. Designed by scientists at A*STAR, the program provides users with a ...
Biotechnology
Nov 19, 2014
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Increasing reliance on renewable energies is the way to achieve greater CO2 emission sustainability and energy independence. As such energies are yet only available intermittently and energy cannot be stored easily, most ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 13, 2014
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A team of scientists found how to make pregnancy tests more sensitive and cheaper. Thanks to neutrons, they could investigate the interaction between antibody and antigens and the importance of a blocking protein, present ...
Biochemistry
Sep 25, 2014
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The D-Wave computer is currently the latest link of a long chain of computers designed for the solution of optimization problems. In what sense does it realize quantum computation? We describe the evolution of such computers ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 23, 2014
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A new and innovative computing machine is currently attracting a great deal of attention in specialist circles. A team under the leadership of Matthias Troyer, a professor at ETH Zurich, has now confirmed that the machine ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 18, 2014
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When walking with female romantic partners, males tend to slow down by about 7%, according to new research published Oct 23 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, by Cara Wall-Scheffler and colleagues at Seattle Pacific University.
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2013
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A team of engineers led by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a new approach that marries computer vision and hardware optimization to sort cells up to 38 times faster than is currently ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 2, 2013
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Fake online products reviews have been around for years, fueled by unscrupulous marketers seeking to boost sales.
Internet
Sep 29, 2013
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Large-scale computing has become a necessity for solving the nation's most intractable problems. Due to their sheer number of cores, high-end computers increasingly exhibit intermittently incorrect behaviors—referred to ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 11, 2013
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Finding a single optimal route is easy, but optimizing the combination of multiple routes is a challenge found in a wide range of applications including Internet instant messaging, peer-to-peer networks, subway traffic, airport ...
