News tagged with deep web

Infovell's 'research engine' finds deep Web pages that Google, Yahoo miss

Sep 08, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (58) | 6

According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley, traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo index only about 0.2% of the Internet. The remaining 99.8%, known as the "deep Web," is ...

New metasearch engine leaves Google, Yahoo crawling

Technology / Computer Sciences

Mar 25, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (15) | 6

One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to type a query into an online search engine and have it deliver not Web pages that may contain an answer, but just the answer itself, says Weiyi Meng, ...

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Queen Mary scientists shed light on a mysterious particle

Physics / General Physics

Dec 14, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Queen Mary, University of London have begun looking deep into the Earth to study some of nature's weirdest particles; neutrinos.

Going underground for a climate solution

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | 2 / 5 (4) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hoping to help fix the Earth's atmosphere, Catherine Peters recently found herself 4,100 feet underground.

New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources

Physics / General Physics

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...

Interactive animations give science students a boost

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

For a generation of students raised and nurtured at the computer keyboard, it seems like a no-brainer that computer-assisted learning would have a prominent role in the college science classroom.

Study finds over 90 percent of people with gum disease are at risk for diabetes

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 14, 2009 | 3 / 5 (3) | 1

The study, led by Dr. Shiela Strauss, Associate Professor of Nursing and Co-Director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, examined data from 2,923 adult participants in the ...

Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (48) | 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...

Scientists crack mystery of protein's dual function

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Dec 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved a 10-year-old mystery of how a single protein from an ancient family of enzymes can have two completely distinct roles in the body. In addition to providing guidance ...

'Extreme' genes shed light on origins of photosynthesis

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

Dec 11, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While most school children understand that green plants photosynthesize, absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, few people consider the profound global-scale effects that photosynthesis has had on Earth. ...

TRMM Satellite sees Cyclone Cleo coming to a close

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Rainfall in the once-known Cyclone Cleo has really diminished over the last 24 hours, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite has confirmed it. Cleo is fading and the Joint Typhoon Warning ...