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Wolfram Alpha 'Knowledge Engine' is Like a Modern Farmer's Almanac

Technology / Internet

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, there's a lot of hype and skepticism surrounding the latest "Google rival," a so-called search engine named Wolfram Alpha. In the near future, anyone with Internet access will be ...


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Wolfram Alpha Could Answer Questions that Google Can't

Technology / Internet

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new search engine described as an "electronic brain" could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking ...


Noninsulin-producing alpha cells in the pancreas can be converted to insulin-producing beta cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In findings that add to the prospects of regenerating insulin-producing cells in people with type 1 diabetes, researchers in Europe -- co-funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation -- have shown that insulin-producing ...


Star-Forming Backbone of a Massive Structure in the Early Universe Photographed

Star-Forming Backbone of a Massive Structure in the Early Universe Photographed

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a special camera known as AzTEC developed by a research team led by Grant Wilson, astronomy professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an international research group has ...


Study finds link between Parkinson's disease genes and manganese poisoning

Study finds link between Parkinson's disease genes and manganese poisoning

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental ...


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Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Alpha

Technology / Software

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the full release of Chrome 1.0 in December, Google has just released Chrome 2.0 alpha that brings many noticeable improvements over Chrome 1.0. With this new alpha release of Chrome 2.0, ...


High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 48

In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability ...


'Spaghetti' scaffolding could help grow skin in labs

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists are developing new scaffolding technology which could be used to grow tissues such as skin, nerves and cartilage using 3D spaghetti-like structures. Their research is highlighted in the latest issue of Business, the qu ...


New genes at work in patients with hereditary lung disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Florida researchers have safely given new, functional genes to patients with a hereditary defect that can lead to fatal lung and liver diseases, according to clinical trial findings slated to appear this week ...


More insulin-producing cells, at the flip of a 'switch'

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have found a way in mice to convert another type of pancreas cell into the critical insulin-producing beta cells that are lost in those with type I diabetes. The secret ingredient is a single transcription factor, ...


Promising new trends in Web search engines

Technology / Internet

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The Internet is a vastly different place than it was 15 years ago, but the way consumers search it has changed very little.


Researchers Suggest New Approach in Development Efforts for Parkinson’s Therapeutics

Researchers Suggest New Approach in Development Efforts for Parkinson’s Therapeutics

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers outline today a new approach in the potential development of drugs to counter a cellular defect that triggers Parkinson’s and other diseases.


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Review: Flaws in Web's much-touted WolframAlpha

Technology / Internet

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(AP) -- When a free Web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its ...


Nicotine may have more profound impact than previously thought

Nicotine may have more profound impact than previously thought

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Nicotine isn't just addictive. It may also interfere with dozens of cellular interactions in the body, new Brown University research suggests.


MRSA study suggests strategy shift needed to develop effective therapeutics

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

USA300--the major epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causing severe infections in the United States during the past decade--inherits its destructiveness directly from a forefather strain ...