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College Board weighs online science labs
Oct 20, 2006 |
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The College Board is studying whether virtual science labs are acceptable for Advance Placement coursework for U.S. high school science students.
Mobile math lab for cell phones created
Jul 10, 2007 |
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Israeli scientists have developed a mobile math lab application for cell phones, providing students with experiential, interactive ways to learn math.
HP Labs award will lay groundwork for next generation computers
Sep 17, 2008 |
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While most personal computers today can process a few hundred thousand calculations per second, computer scientists are laying the groundwork for exascale machines that will process more than a million trillion ...
Rare sheep could be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world, study
Jul 04, 2009 |
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The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says "baa."
Seeing a fabulous vision of the future
Sep 16, 2009 |
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It was a harmonic convergence of scheduling that found me spending six solid hours with some of Silicon Valley's brightest minds. Without giving it much thought, I committed recently to a morning of meetings at Hewlett-Packard's ...
Researchers rapidly turn bacteria into biotech factories
Jul 26, 2009 |
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High-throughput sequencing has turned biologists into voracious genome readers, enabling them to scan millions of DNA letters, or bases, per hour. When revising a genome, however, they struggle, suffering from serious writer's ...
Ebola virus disarmed by excising a single gene
Biology /
Jan 21, 2008 |
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The deadly Ebola virus, an emerging public health concern in Africa and a potential biological weapon, ranks among the most feared of exotic pathogens.
Researchers double cell phone memory through software alone
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 27, 2007 |
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Cell phones are increasingly sophisticated -- sporting such features as cameras, music players, games, video clips, Internet access and, lest we forget, the capability to phone someone -- but these features come at a price: ...
NASA holds module naming competition
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2006 |
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NASA is asking U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade to help name the next U.S. International Space Station module.
Team develops solar-powered laptop for Tanzanian students
Dec 20, 2007 |
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For a team of Penn State engineering students, the challenge wasn't getting laptops to Tanzanian students, but how to power those machines.
Environmental program helps companies save energy
Jun 15, 2009 |
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The first time Sarah Shapiro walked into a Cisco Systems lab filled with racks of blinking routers and miles of multicolored electrical wires, she felt like she was on a movie set.
Space is 'current frontier' for engineer working on next-gen wireless technologies
May 07, 2008 |
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Bhaskar Rao is a space explorer, though he is no astronaut. The electrical engineer from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering explores the “space frontier” that has opened up with the emergence of MIMO ...
Teachers to learn about Mars-Earth science
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2006 |
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Eighteen middle school and high school U.S. science teachers will soon depart for Alaska for a Mars exploration and polar science research experience.
Light-speed computer connection will slash genetic data transfer time between TGen-ASU
Nov 12, 2008 |
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Hot on the heels of a new supercomputer, plans for a new light-speed data line between the Translational Genomics Research Institute and Arizona State University could slash the time is takes to transfer genetic information.
Hopping Robot Captures Top Research Expo Honor
Feb 25, 2008 |
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The goal of Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam was to build a robot with off-the-shelf parts for his graduate research project that could roll around and hop over obstacles like a motorized kangaroo on roller ...
