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Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa

Year's Best Gift Could Be A Job From Santa

Other Sciences / Other

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

In this year's myriad discussions of stimulus and jobs programs, no one has yet publicly raised the idea to ask Santa Claus to take Christmas Eve off. Outsourcing his job by asking mere mortals to deliver ...


CSIRO researchers create giant waves

CSIRO researchers create giant waves -- virtually

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have created 'rogue waves' more than 20 metres high and smashed them into virtual oil and gas production platforms to compare different mooring designs.


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 ...


Scientists demonstrate importance of niche differences in biodiversity

Scientists demonstrate importance of niche differences in biodiversity

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have found strong evidence that niche differences are critical to biodiversity. Their findings are published online in this week's issue of the journal Nature.


Simple new way to analyze sleep disorders

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the United States and are a ...