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Ski Runs Are Not Created Equal

Space & Earth / Environment

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Building a new ski run by bulldozing a mountainside rather than only cutting its shrubs and trees is far more damaging ecologically, yet might offer only a week's earlier start to the downhill season, says ...





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How do you improve mammogram accuracy? Add noise

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Members of a Syracuse University research team have shown that an obscure phenomenon called stochastic resonance (SR) can improve the clarity of signals in systems such as radar, sonar and even radiography, used in medical ...


Putting the squeeze on data

Putting the squeeze on data

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

(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 ...


How could Santa know if you've been good or bad?

How could Santa know if you've been good or bad?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By using technology to detect guilty expressions, of course. CSIRO is using automated expression recognition technology to tell whether someone is in pain and, according to computer scientist, ...


Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Technology / Energy

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Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used.


Gene therapy makes mice breath easier

Medicine & Health / Research

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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The study, which appears on-line in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, descri ...


Anemia drug not helpful for kidney disease patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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An international study authored by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher has concluded that the anemia drug darbepoetin alfa works no better than a placebo in several other applications previously thought to be promising.


Banks and bailouts: Playing politics?

Other Sciences / Economics

created 21 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Banks with strong political connections were more likely to receive bailout money from the government—and more of it—in the past year than those with weaker ties, say University of Michigan researchers.


Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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At Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy it was revealed that single-stranded DNA can disperse bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes into individual tubes and serve as guideposts for synthesizing ...


Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Swimming Bacteria Could Become Model for Micromachines

Physics / General Physics

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(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn researchers say Spiroplasma's propulsion style is optimal for converting energy into motion.


Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles — this time resulting ...



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