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Study shows more genes are controlled by biological clocks

Biology /

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The tick-tock of your biological clock may have just gotten a little louder. Researchers at the University of Georgia report that the number of genes under control of in living things than suspected only a few years ago. ...





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Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 11

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- th ...


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Many computer users hesitate to ride the Wave

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Google's latest brainchild, Google Wave, is all the rage among bleeding-edge technology enthusiasts. But corporate information technology executives say that while they're intrigued by Wave -- a replacement ...


What computer science can teach economics

What computer science can teach economics

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have spent decades developing techniques for answering a single question: How long does a given calculation take to perform? Constantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor ...


Hunting for new zeolites

Hunting for new zeolites

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline. But thanks to computations ...


Parallel course

Parallel course: Researchers help ease transition to parallel programming

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz -- a 30-fold increase. And ...


DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and ...


Tiny but adaptable wasp brains show ability to alter their architecture

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis.


Researchers save electricity with low-power processors and flash memory

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more ...


Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos

Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 1

Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.


3 Americans share 2009 Nobel Prize in physics (AP)

'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering "masters of light" work on fibre optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.



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