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'FEAsy' analyzes designs from raw sketches to speed parts creation (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy.


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New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for applications that include biological sensors and more compact, powerful computer ...





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Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

When bombs and bullets left 37 dead during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan, earlier this month, the insurgency was using the element of surprise. Unpredictability is the hallmark of modern insurgent attacks such as ...


Pandemic toolkit offers flu with a view

Pandemic toolkit offers flu with a view

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- As communities brace for rising wintertime influenza cases, scientists are developing a mathematical and visual analytic toolkit to help health officials quickly analyze pandemics and craft ...


Science not faked, but not pretty (AP)

Science not faked, but not pretty

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (57) | comments 93

(AP) -- E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data - but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an ...


Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa.


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Reference Genome of Maize Published (w/ Podcast)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science reveal ...


The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität ...


New research analyzes issues in immigration law

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Miami Law Professor Rebecca A. Sharpless has recently authored a research paper titled, "Toward a True Elements Test: Taylor and the Categorical Analysis of Crimes in Immigration Law."


New neuroimaging analysis technique identifies impact of Alzheimer's disease gene in healthy brains

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brain imaging can offer a window into risk for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). A study conducted at the University of Kansas School of Medicine demonstrated that genetic risk is expressed in the brains of even ...


Exoplanets Clue to Sun's Curious Chemistry

Exoplanets Clue to Sun's Curious Chemistry

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A ground-breaking census of 500 stars, 70 of which are known to host planets, has successfully linked the long-standing "lithium mystery" observed in the Sun to the presence of planetary systems. ...


3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While many vaccines used around the world today are produced for profit by commercial firms, the private sector accounts for a tiny fraction of the funding for an HIV vaccine: 4 percent in 2008, down from ...



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