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arXiv online scientific repository hits milestone

arXiv online scientific repository hits milestone

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million e-print postings -- research articles published ...


Taking the drudgery out of software development

Taking the drudgery out of software development

Technology / Software

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (19) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developers will no longer have to reinvent the wheel when writing new programs and applications thanks to a clever new set of tools and a central repository of 'building blocks'.


Ocean treasure stored at Texas A&M's IODP repository

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Priceless treasure from the bottom of the sea is locked away at Texas A&M University, stacked on floor-to-ceiling racks and kept secure in 15,000 square feet of refrigerated space.


Researcher leads international effort to create 'proteinpedia'

Biology /

created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine has led the effort to compile to date the largest free resource of experimental information about human proteins. Reporting in the February issue of Nature Bi ...


Social networking site for researchers aims to make academic papers a thing of the past

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 3

myExperiment, the social networking site for scientists, has set out to challenge traditional ideas of academic publishing as it enters a new phase of funding.


The sum of knowledge -- online and accessible, no less

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are creating new technology that could, ultimately, make accessible the sum of humankind's knowledge. Hundreds of organisations and millions of documents are already linked to this "United ...


MS, SAP Tout New RFID Platform Capabilities

Technology / Software

created May 03, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Microsoft releases the first public beta of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and SAP showcases its RFID Product Tracking and Authentication application at the RFID Journal Live conference.


Taming the vast -- and growing -- digital data-sphere

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind ...


'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 28, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at Florida State University’s Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility will give international scientists a close-up look at fluctuations that ...


Peer-to-peer networking takes internet out of the equation

Technology / Internet

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows independent, ...


Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently includ ...


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IBM makes Big Blue cloud

Technology / Software

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (8) | comments 9

IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs.


Don't ask, don't tell: Financial disclosure lacking in literature on stents

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Most published research about coronary stents does not reveal information about authors’ financial relationships that might bias their interpretation of scientific data, according to researchers at Duke University Medical ...


Drug discovery process more accurate, less expensive using novel mass spectrometry application

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer and cell biology experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have developed a new mass spectrometry-based tool they say provides more precise, cost-effective data collection for drug discovery efforts.


Would you like a large shake with that little Mac?

Would you like a large shake with that little Mac?

Technology / Other

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

What began as a way to prevent damage to the hard drive from a dropped laptop has led to an innovative project that lets seismology and engineering students or researchers study, store and share data to better ...