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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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Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Bacteria offer insights into human decision making

Physics / General Physics

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that ...


Nanomedicine: ending 'hit and miss' design

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created 13 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanomedicine is the design of tiny particles that can home in on diseased cells and get inside them. Nanoparticles can carry drugs into cells and tag cells for MRI and other diagnostic ...


Solar energy powers Marines on battlefield

Solar energy powers Marines on battlefield (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created 18 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A year ago, U.S. Marines operating in the Arabian Desert only viewed the sun as the source of the region's relentless heat. Recently, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Advanced Power Generation Future Naval ...


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GSM system about to be compromised

Technology / Telecom

created 22 hours ago | popularity 3.7 / 5 (19) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System for Mobile ...


Severity of H1N1 flu in US during current flu season may be less than feared

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 23 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study from researchers at the UK Medical Research Council and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) projects that the severity of the H1N1 flu during the autumn-winter flu season in the U.S. will likely be less ...


Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

An Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing lower-cost, renewable biofuels. The team has programmed a photosynthetic microbe to self-destruct, making the recovery ...


Creativity in mathematics

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

"Mathematics links Art and Science in one great enterprise, the human attempt to make sense of the universe." So writes Abel Prizewinner and Fields Medalist Sir Michael F. Atiyah in the January 2010 Notices of the American Ma ...


Television control for the remote

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cheap way to deliver interactive communications to remote communities has been successfully tested in Brazil and Italy.


Google search results to include 'real-time' data (AP)

Google search results to include 'real-time' data

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- Fresh information from blogs, news sites, Twitter and other popular hangouts will appear in Google's search results more quickly as the company aims to give people a more comprehensive look at what's ...


Coin tosses can be easily rigged: study

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 12

The ubiquitous coin toss is not so random after all, and can easily be manipulated to turn up heads, or tails, a Canadian study has found.



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