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Brain on a chip?

Brain on a chip?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- How does the human brain run itself without any software? Find that out, say European researchers, and a whole new field of neural computing will open up. A prototype 'brain on a chip' is ...





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Diagnosing skin cancer without a biopsy

Diagnosing skin cancer without a biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent Montana State University master's graduate is working with doctors at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee to build a handheld laser microscope that could someday reduce the number ...


Handheld laser microscope to help diagnose skin cancer without a biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent Montana State University master's graduate is working with doctors at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee to build a handheld laser microscope that could someday reduce the number of biopsies needed to diagnose ...


Putting services at the heart of tomorrow’s software

Putting services at the heart of tomorrow's software

Technology / Software

created Jun 26, 2006 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Service development in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the point where small, functional services can be linked together to achieve some larger goal, and it is the point where computing could finally ...


International team tracks clues to HIV

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Rice University's Andrew Barron and his group, working with labs in Italy, Germany and Greece, have identified specific molecules that could block the means by which the deadly virus spreads by taking away its ability to ...


Microscopy Images of Platinum Nanocrystals

Platinum nanocrystals boost catalytic activity for fuel oxidation, hydrogen production

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 03, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0

A research team composed of electrochemists and materials scientists from two continents has produced a new form of the industrially-important metal platinum: 24-facet nanocrystals whose catalytic activity ...


Franklin's bumble bee may be extinct

Franklin's bumble bee may be extinct

Biology / Ecology

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, just returned from a scientific trip to southern Oregon and Northern California ...


Ubiquitous health: Enabling telemedicine to cut hospital visits, save money

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient's family or physician to problematic changes in the person's vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers ...


Hidden Before Our Eyes: Tiny World Makes Giant Leap to Silver Screen

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s something of an understatement to say Shekhar Garde has an eye for detail. A global leader in his field, Garde works to shed new light on the hidden world of atoms and molecules. Equipped with state-of-the-art ...


Future of social networking explored in UW's computer science building

Future of social networking explored in UW's computer science building

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 2

If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you're hunting down a person or a thing, a computer's not much help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what ...


Semantic descriptors to help the hunt for music

Technology /

created Jan 04, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

You like a certain song and want to hear other tracks like it, but don't know how to find them? Ending the needle-in-a-haystack problem of searching for music on the Internet or even in your own hard drive is a new audio-based ...



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