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Scientists Bring 2000 year old painted warrior to virtual live

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A 2000-year-old painted statue is being restored to her original glory by scientists from WMG at the University of Warwick, the University of Southampton, and the Herculaneum Conservation Project.





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Shipworm threatens archaeological treasures

Shipworm threatens archaeological treasures

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The dreaded shipworm is moving into the Baltic Sea, threatening artefacts of the area's cultural heritage. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, suspect that the unfortunate spread is due to ...


Salazar calls for high flows into Colorado River

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is calling for more manmade floods to be released from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River.


IBM will develop a cloud computing network specially for the US Air Force

IBM taking US Air Force into software cloud

Technology / Software

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

IBM said Thursday it has been enlisted by the US Air Force to show how defense and intelligence networks can safely soar into the online software "cloud."


First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces ...


Studying hair of ancient Peruvians answers questions about stress

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent studies show that one in three Canadians suffer from stress and the number is on the rise. But stress isn't a new problem.


Teaching computer games

Technology / Other

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students' ...


Using degrees of freedom to get hyperentanglement

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest challenges scientists are grappling with today is the creation of an efficient quantum computer. There are a number of models out there, and hundreds of scientists and researchers around ...


Microsoft and NSF enable research in the cloud

Technology / Other

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft Corp. and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced an agreement that will offer individual researchers and research groups selected through NSF's merit review process free access to advanced cloud computing ...


Intel aims for the cloud as businesses ramp IT spending

Technology / Business

created Jan 17, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Intel Corp. affirmed this week what many analysts have been talking about for some time: That a corporate spending wave is about to hit -- and a big part of it will come from the cloud.


A computer per student leads to higher performance than traditional classroom settings

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A dozen years into the "1 to 1" computing movement's push to pair every schoolchild and teacher with a laptop, studies show the students in these programs outperformed their peers in traditional classrooms, according to researchers.



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