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From Grain to Pixel

Technology / Other

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Not only video shops are struggling with the digitisation of films. Digitisation is also giving rise to problems in a completely different area. Film archives and laboratories have built up their work around the analogue ...





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This handout photo received in September 2009 courtesy of the University of Connecticut (UConn) shows a skull fragment

Hitler skull fragment in Moscow authentic: FSB

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An officer with the Russian intelligence service the FSB on Monday dismissed a US report suggesting a fragment of Hitler's skull held in Moscow is actually from a woman, insisting their relic is genuine.


AP unveils 'treasure trove' of historical footage

Technology / Internet

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a "treasure trove" of historical film footage from the 1960s and '70s that had been sitting in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's former World War II headquarters ...


MRI reveals inner ear anomalies in children with hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 15, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), physicians can identify soft-tissue defects that contribute to hearing loss in children, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, one of ...


A man surfs the web at a cafe in Beijing, China where two Chinese bloggers have been fined for defamation

China bloggers fined for defamation: report

Technology / Internet

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two Chinese bloggers were ordered to pay about 290,000 yuan (42,478 dollars) in compensation to the widow of film director Xie Jin for claiming he died in the arms of a prostitute, a report said Saturday.


Digitized student: Accelerated research using a digital camera

Technology / Other

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A researcher on a short trip to a foreign country, with little money, but a digital camera in hand has devised a novel approach to digitizing foreign archives that could speed up research.


Fitness levels decline with age, especially after 45

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Men and women become gradually less fit with age, with declines accelerating after age 45, according to a report in the October 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, mainta ...


Laser surgery does not appear to have long-term effects on corneal cells

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laser eye surgery to correct vision problems does not appear to be associated with lasting changes to cells lining the inside of the cornea at nine years after the procedure, according to a report in the November issue of ...


Myopia appears to have become more common

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Myopia (nearsightedness) may have been more common in Americans from 1999 to 2004 than it was 30 years ago, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.


New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

New transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting ...


French technology upstart challenges Google

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American ...



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