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Atomic-level Snapshot Catches Protein Motor in Action (w/ Video)

Atomic-level Snapshot Catches Protein Motor in Action (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The atomic-level action of a remarkable class of ring-shaped protein motors has been uncovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory using a state-of-the-art protein ...


Qualcomm's next e-book to use a mirasol display

Qualcomm's next e-book to use a mirasol display

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Qualcomm subsidiary Mirasol is developing a new e-book reader with a color display that uses ambient light. The reader will be capable of displaying video smoothly, but the new features will ...


IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

IBM scientists create rapid disease diagnostic chip (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy to use, and can test for ...


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Google's Chrome OS to be ready for 2010 holidays (Update)

Technology / Software

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster.


New study to evaluate robots as exercise trainers (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Maja Mataric', who directs the University of Southern California Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, will lead an effort to evaluate robots as exercise coaches for adults of all ages, with a particular focus on the ...


Patient's weight not linked to success of fibroid surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obese patients are no more likely to have post-operative complications than those of average weight when undergoing robotic surgery to remove uterine fibroids, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital.


AOL to lay off a third of staff (AP)

AOL offers buyouts to over a third of work force

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The struggling Internet company AOL plans to shed up to 2,500 jobs - more than a third of its work force - as it prepares to separate from Time Warner and finally sever their ill-fated marriage.


Homo floresiensis

'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...


P2P comes to the aid of audiovisual search (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer ...


"Walky" Project (Keio University in Tokyo)

iPhone Software That Controls Robot Movements (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the graduate school of media design at Keio University in Tokyo, a project called "Walky" is under developed. Researchers have developed specifically designed software for the iPhone that ...



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