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New software to simulate future financial crises

New software to simulate future financial crises

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can economics better predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy? Breakthrough simulation software by European researchers could hold the answers ...


Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Ariana Leonard's high school students shuffled in their seats, eagerly awaiting a cue from their Spanish teacher that the assignment would begin. "Take out your cell phones," she said in Spanish.


IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...


Cryptographic voting debuts

Cryptographic voting debuts

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, in Takoma Park, Md., a new cryptographic voting system that could ensure accurate vote counts was used for the first time in a real election. MIT’s Ron Rivest, the Viterbi Professor ...


findNano app puts nanotech in your pocket

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has developed findNano, an application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users discover and determine whether consumer products are nanotechnology-enabled. Nanotechnology, ...


The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...


Next-generation microcapsules deliver 'chemicals on demand'

Next-generation microcapsules deliver 'chemicals on demand'

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists in California are reporting development of a new generation of the microcapsules used in carbon-free copy paper, in which capsules burst and release ink with pressure from a pen. The new microcapsules ...


You might be 'fluphobic' if ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The moment it became clear that I was on the verge of a full-blown case of the disease, I was gazing at an ATM keypad.


Papershow is portable whiteboard, presentation, more

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It all began with the blackboard that lets you write on a large surface for all to see and that can be easily erased. To this day, blackboards continue to be found mostly in schools. It's how teachers communicate their ideas ...


Grudgingly, young people finally flock to Twitter (AP)

Grudgingly, young people finally flock to Twitter

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- They think it's pointless, narcissistic. Some don't even know what it is. Even so, more young adults and teens - normally at the cutting edge of technology - are finally coming around to Twitter, ...


LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While not the smallest lettering ever created, the tiny initials "LCLS" have been written with what may be the world's most potent pen. Etched into boron carbide, a super-hard substance used ...


On their trip, Pen Hadow (R) and Ann Daniels found the average thickness of the ice floes was 1.8 metres

Arctic ice cap 'to disappear in future summers'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (31) | comments 21

The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.


Technology brings new insights to ancient language

Technology brings new insights to ancient language

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously ...


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Pigs learn to understand mirrors

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of domesticated pigs has found that with just a little experimentation they can find food based only on a reflection in a mirror.


Microsoft's Rx for health care

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

You can pay your phone bill online, but you still need a pen and clipboard to fill out forms at a doctor's office. You can check in for a flight on the Internet, but you have to carry around a slip of paper with handwritten ...