Search results for linear garden
New roadside beautification concept studied
Biology /
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Travel America's highways or drive down any city street this summer and you'll probably see them. From small, manicured beds of flowers maintained by community volunteers to extensive landscaping projects ...
Bumblebees make bee line for gardens
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Jul 23, 2007 |
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Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The results come from the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, which are published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied ...
Scientist finds alternate explanation for dune formation on Titan
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2009 |
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A new and likely controversial paper has just been published online in Nature Geoscience by LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology Chair Patrick Hesp and United States Geological Survey scientist David ...
CERN boss wants to bid for linear collider
Sep 16, 2009 |
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CERN’s director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva lab. Heuer made his call to situate ...
Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the three detector design concepts for the proposed next linear collider have been validated by the International Detector Advisory Group, and their conclusions endorsed by the International ...
Putting the squeeze on data
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It’s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead ...
Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion: Magnets, Cantilever Capture Wide Range of Frequencies
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions ...
Hair today, gone tomorrow: tracking hair loss and growth
Oct 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO has developed maths-based imaging technology to measure hair on different parts of the human body.
Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...
Human eye inspires advance in computer vision (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times ...
New study cites lower rate of quakes along some subduction zones
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Most earthquakes occur along fault lines, which form boundaries between two tectonic plates. As the relative speed of the plates around a fault increases, is there a corresponding increase in the number of earthquakes produced ...
Nanowire technology could make LCDs brighter, thinner, and cheaper
Oct 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As nanoimprinting technology advances, scientists have shown that using nano-sized polarizers could significantly enhance the contrast ratio in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). For consumers, ...
Simple method devised to predict rises in Ebro River level
Mar 27, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has developed a new mathematical method to easily predict rises in the level of the Ebro River in Zaragoza based on water flow recorded ...
Synthetic moleculues could add spice to fight against cancer
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Turning up the heat on the red tomato during processing has the potential to give the popular garden staple added disease-fighting power, Ohio State University research suggests.
Molecular machine turns packaged messenger RNA into a linear transcript
Biology /
Feb 11, 2009 |
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For RNA, the gateway to a productive life outside the nucleus is the nuclear pore complex, an amalgamation of 30 kinds of proteins that regulates all traffic passing through the nuclear membrane. New research from Rockefeller ...
