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Taking space in stride: New analysis could lead to better lunar, Mars spacesuits (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has watched videos of the Apollo astronauts moving across the surface of the moon has noticed the unusual loping gait they sometimes adopted and their slow, almost graceful, movements. Now a new ...


Simple method devised to predict rises in Ebro River level

Simple method devised to predict rises in Ebro River level

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has developed a new mathematical method to easily predict rises in the level of the Ebro River in Zaragoza based on water flow recorded ...





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Watch digital TV and films without disruptions thanks to mathematical model

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dutch researcher Alina Weffers-Albu has developed a method to calculate how a device can provide maximum functionality with a minimum quantity of processor and memory capacity. TVs, DVD players and mobile phones can malfunction ...


Researchers fine-tune diffuse optical tomography for breast cancer screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clemson University researchers in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bremen, Germany, are working to make the physical pain and discomfort of mammograms a thing of the past, while allowing for diagnostic ...


Engineers Shovel Their Way through Snow-Plowing Problem

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

The average person probably doesn’t realize that snowplowing is a complex operation involving the interaction of several variables. To simplify this process, two University of Missouri engineers have developed models that ...


New technique developed to evaluate basketball players

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of Spanish and American researchers has developed a method to evaluate basketball players that will, they say, better meet the requirements of the sport's trainers and experts. The technique uses mathematical models ...


New tool could unpick complex cancer causes and help sociologists mine Facebook

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Warwick's Department of Statistics and Centre for Complexity Science have devised a new research tool that could help unpick the complex cell interactions that lead to cancer and also allow ...


Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling

Physics / General Physics

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

A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales ...


Mathematical model identifies genes which battle hepatitis C

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 19, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Joint research by Dr. Leonid Brodsky, of the Institute of Evolution of the University of Haifa, and Dr. Milton Taylor, of Indiana University, led to the discovery of a mathematical method which can identify which genes in ...


The human brain minimizes energy expenditure and integrates gravity in to the action plan

Biology /

created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

When reaching for an object, the brain prepares neural commands sent to the target muscles to minimize energy expenditure, according to a study published in PLoS Computational Biology by neuroscientists and mathematicians from t ...


Combination of old and new media deepens mathematical understanding

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

By combining the trusty old book, pen and paper with the possibilities offered by the computer and the interactive whiteboard, ICT can help to improve students’ understanding in maths education. So conclude a team of researchers ...


Underground lines that bypass monuments

Underground lines that bypass monuments

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The ...



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