News tagged with design
Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...
'FEAsy' analyzes designs from raw sketches to speed parts creation (w/ Video)
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy.
Interior design now has a language all its own
Aug 26, 2009 |
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In the 1990s, Professor Jan Jennings struggled to talk with her interior design students about design practices that had been used throughout history and across cultures. There were no names, for example, ...
Pharmaceuticals Look to Adaptive Trials
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, trials of pharmaceuticals have revolved around the double-blind test, controlled with a placebo, in which not even those conducting the investigation knew who was receiving what ...
New light-emitting biomaterial could improve tumor imaging, study shows
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 10, 2009 |
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A new material developed at the University of Virginia - an oxygen nanosensor that couples a light-emitting dye with a biopolymer - simplifies the imaging of oxygen-deficient regions of tumors. Such tumors are associated ...
Shake, rattle, no roll: Construction guide for earthquake-resistant buildings
Jul 29, 2009 |
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A guide* for designing buildings using steel moment frames to resist earthquakes has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of its support for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction ...
Study: Cigarette packaging still misleading consumers over health hazards
Jul 28, 2009 |
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New research suggests that current regulations have failed to remove misleading information from cigarette packaging, revealing that a substantial majority of consumers believe cigarettes are less hazardous when the packs ...
Game utilizes human intuition to help computers solve complex problems
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks.
University has grand designs to build a house of straw (w/ Video)
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Could straw houses be the buildings of the future? That's what researchers at the University of Bath will be testing this summer by constructing a "BaleHaus" made of prefabricated straw bale and hemp cladding ...
NASA Mission Gets Closer to Solving Magnetic Reconnection Mystery (w/ Videos)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is designing a mission to investigate one of the most fundamental and explosive physical processes in the universe - magnetic reconnection. Known as the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) ...
Students tackle world's woes at Microsoft Imagine Cup
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Hundreds of thousands of college students from around the world vied in a Microsoft challenge to find ways that technology can help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals.
Philips presents OLED-based interactive lighting concepts
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Royal Philips Electronics today premiered the world’s first OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) -based interactive lighting concepts, created for both consumer as well as professional use, during the Euroluce ...
Departure of chip-design legend Bob Pease prompts outpouring in Silicon Valley
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Bob Pease is a genuine Silicon Valley rock star who I never would have heard of had he not lost his job, or left his job. It's not entirely clear which.
A full-sized California-style home made of bamboo
Apr 08, 2009 |
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A new type of eco-friendly residential house made of bamboo now stands in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
Texas School Standards: Age of the Universe Erased
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The fight over the new education and curriculum standards for the public schools in Texas has been long and publicized. Most of the publicity, though, focuses on the school board's focus on ...
