If one would rewind the tape of life, would evolution result in the same outcome? The Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould came up with this famous thought experiment. He suggested that evolution would not repeat ...
Evolution
Oct 28, 2014
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Parallel universes – worlds where the dinosaur-killing asteroid never hit, or where Australia was colonised by the Portuguese – are a staple of science fiction. But are they real?
Quantum Physics
Oct 24, 2014
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During the past few years, Virginia Tech's Wu Feng has built upon a National Science Foundation (NSF) / Microsoft grant from the "Computing in the Cloud" program, and synergistically complemented it with subsequent collaborative ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 20, 2014
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Cambridge's COSMOS supercomputer, the largest shared-memory computer in Europe, has been named by computer giant Intel as one of its Parallel Computing Centres, building on a long-standing collaboration between Intel and ...
Hardware
Jun 24, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Changing the texture and surface characteristics of a semiconductor material at the nanoscale can influence the way that neural cells grow on the material.
Bio & Medicine
Mar 12, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Molecular dynamics simulations often require too much time to be practical for simulating important chemical processes that take place on long timescales. Using EMSL-developed NWChem, researchers provided evidence ...
Materials Science
Jan 27, 2014
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There is no one inside the Range Rover in a Las Vegas parking lot. But it still guides its way to a parking place, after what looks like some hesitation.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 9, 2014
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Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have built a Linux cluster using 16 Raspberry Pi computers as part of a program to teach children and adults the basics ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 13, 2013
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It can take up to two and a half turns to steer a modern vehicle. While turning, the driver must release the wheel in the necessary hand-over-hand movement, which is unsafe. In his upcoming HFES 2013 Annual Meeting paper, ...
Engineering
Sep 17, 2013
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Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known species of primate, lived mainly in South China during the Pleistocene. The enormous body size of this taxon, together with its special dietary proclivity and possible relationship ...
Archaeology
Sep 11, 2013
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