News tagged with digital model

High-tech models help guide restoration efforts to save threatened plants

A team of scientists from the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) and two universities will begin research using sophisticated topographic models to identify areas within dry forests that have the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists succeed in making the spinal cord transparent

(Medical Xpress) -- In the event of the spinal cord injury, the long nerve cell filaments, the axons, may become severed. For quite some time now, scientists have been investigating whether these axons can ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NASA, Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online activity grows in a similar pattern to those of real-life networks

The activity of online communities does not grow in line with the number of users, according to a model recently published in the European Physical Journal B.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New York Times suffers quarterly loss

The New York Times Company said Thursday it lost $120 million in the second quarter, as income from digital subscriptions failed to make up for a steep write-down of its print newspaper assets.

Technology / Business

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Eye of Gaia: Billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way

The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting "billion-pixel array" will serve as the super-sensitive ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 15

Apple angles for position of power in publishing world

Apple's bold foray into the world of digital publishing could make it the online gatekeeper for newspaper and magazine content, just as it is for music.

Technology / Business

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google, IPI to launch digital media grants for Africa

Internet search giant Google has awarded $2.7 million (1.96 million euros) to media watchdog IPI as part of a new project to support digital news in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, IPI said Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Warner Music CEO looks 'beyond iTunes' amid losses

(AP) -- Digital download sales growth slowed further for Warner Music Group Corp. in its fiscal third quarter, prompting CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to say Thursday that the company was looking "beyond the iTunes model" to return ...

Technology / Business

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Innovative digital technologies assist specialists in anatomical reconstruction

Techniques for using digital technology in separating conjoined twins, developing facial prostheses and acquiring data from anthropologic specimens will be among the topics presented at a symposium sponsored by the American ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The naked truth about our landscape

Australia has been stripped bare of vegetation to expose the surface that lies beneath.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Secrets of insect flight revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are one step closer to creating a micro-aircraft that flies with the manoeuvrability and energy efficiency of an insect after decoding the aerodynamic secrets of insect flight.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Rome was built in a day, with hundreds of thousands of digital photos

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ancient city of Rome was not built in a day. It took nearly a decade to build the Colosseum, and almost a century to construct St. Peter's Basilica. But now the city, including these landmarks, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Online radio stations strike big deal on royalties

(AP) -- The future of Internet radio appears more secure after a handful of online stations reached an agreement Tuesday to head off a potentially crippling increase in copyright royalty rates.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

National Science and Technology Council releases strategy for digital scientific data

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) released a report describing a strategy to promote preservation and access to digital scientific data. The report, Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0