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Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...


Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications

Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 6

An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan ...


Novel technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.


BLUE STRAGGLERS IN GLOBULAR CLUSTER 47 TUCANAE

Even stars get fat -- And 'stellar cannibalism' is the reason

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Researchers have discovered evidence that blue stragglers in globular clusters, whose existence has long puzzled astronomers, are the result of 'stellar cannibalism' in binary stars. In other words, binary ...


Hubble scores a perfect 10

Hubble scores a perfect ten

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (42) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business after a one-month breakdown with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147. Scientists made two repair attempts, and last week's effort ...


Hearing on the wing: New structure discovered in butterfly ears

Hearing on the wing: New structure discovered in butterfly ears

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever structure in the ear of a tropical butterfly that potentially makes it able to distinguish between high and low pitch sounds has been discovered by scientists from the University ...


Blue rose

Blue roses to debut in Japan

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Which colour would you like your roses? Red, white, yellow... or perhaps blue?


Man-Made Activities Affect Blue Haze (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Blue haze," a common occurrence that appears over heavily forested areas around the world, is formed by natural emissions of chemicals, but human activities can worsen it to the point of affecting the world's ...


A blue whale swims in the deep waters off the southern Sri Lankan town of Mirissa

Blue whales disturbed by seismic surveys: scientists

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday.


Researchers develop light-treatment device to improve sleep quality in the elderly

Researchers develop light-treatment device to improve sleep quality in the elderly

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sleep disturbances increase as we age. Some studies report more than half of seniors 65 years of age or older suffer from chronic sleep disturbances. Researchers have long believed that the sleep disturbances ...


Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The carcass of a rare blue whale washed ashore in southern New Zealand after it apparently died of old age, a marine expert said Thursday.


Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns: research

Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns: research (w/Video)

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965.


Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science

Leading-edge data analytics and visualization enable breakthrough science

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most science research programs that run on high-performance computers like the IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) generate enormous quantities of ...


Digging up evidence of 400-year-old global trade and wealth

Digging up evidence of 400-year-old global trade and wealth

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

French and Chinese blue glass, Dutch layered glass, Baltic amber: roughly 70,000 beads manufactured all over the world have been excavated at one of the Spanish empire's remotest outposts, the Santa Catalina ...


Animal families with the most diversity also have widest range of size

Animal families with the most diversity also have widest range of size

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhere out there in the ocean, SpongeBob SquarePants has a teeny-tiny cousin and a humongous uncle.