Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 06, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (57) | comments 0

Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,” making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. ...


Mastodon tooth find thrills Mich. family

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 06, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The way a Michigan man found three mastodon teeth may not be as adventurous as an Indiana Jones movie, but the discovery was just as exciting.


Rocky Finding -- Evidence of Extrasolar Asteroid Belt

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 06, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Providing the best evidence yet for an asteroid belt beyond the solar system, new measurements pinpoint the location of such a disk of warm dust surrounding the star Zeta Leporis. As the January 6, 2007 issue of Science Ne ...


New problems tagged to smoking

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 06, 2007 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Smoking can lead to obstructed airways or lung disease that could surface many years after smokers quit, doctors in Taiwan said.


Relics of Taipei's first settlement found

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 06, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The ruins of Taiwan's earliest settlement in Taipei, dating around 2,500 years before Christ, have been found in a vacant lot, an archaeologist said.


Anchovy fishing may harm penguins

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 06, 2007 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Over-fishing by humans could cause a famine among penguins on the Patagonian coast of Argentina, U.S. researchers said.


NIH awards $11.5M for science education

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 06, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eleven projects exploring different aspects of science will share nearly $11.5 million from the U.S. National Institutions of Health.



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