News tagged with design
'Inlet Outlet' Lets Users Give Power Back To Wall Sockets
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever wish you could you power your home's electrical appliances with the energy you generate on your exercise bike? A new concept called an "inlet outlet" could allow homeowners to put power ...
UCI robot to aid brain research
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A robot powered by a computerized model of a rodent brain will help researchers from UC Irvine and UC San Diego understand how people recognize and adapt to change.
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 ...
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.
Evolution still scientifically stable
Sep 14, 2009 |
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An international team of researchers, including Monash University biochemists, has discovered evidence at the molecular level in support of one of the key tenets of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Chart junk? How pictures may help make graphs better
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Those oft-maligned, and highly embellished, graphs and charts in USA Today and other media outlets may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs, according to new research from North Carolina ...
Scientists develop revolutionary microchip that uses 30 times less energy
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Leaving your mobile phone charger at home when you go for a two week long vacation may just be the norm one day as scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Rice University, United States, have successfully ...
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 ...
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 ...
Texas education board approves science standards (Update)
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Texas will no longer require educators to teach weaknesses of all scientific theories, including evolution.
LG Unveils Transparent Mobile Phone: LG-GD900
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 18, 2009 |
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LG Electronics today unveiled the world's first transparent design phone, the LG-GD900, at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
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 ...
Social Web sites face transparency questions
Mar 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yelp.com prides itself on being a site where people can write reviews about pretty much anything and connect with similarly critical peers. Yet as the site grows, some of the businesses scrutinized on Yelp are turning ...
