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Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry

Nov 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry ...

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Technology / Computer Sciences

Nov 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (24) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...

AT&T and Verizon ads duel on airwaves and in court

Technology / Business

Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- What would the holidays be without bickering between siblings? AT&T and Verizon are swamping TV with ads attacking facets of each other's wireless networks. While the ads stick fairly close to the truth, there's ...

South Koreans to get Apple's iPhone this week

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Nov 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(AP) -- Apple Inc's iPhone is coming to South Korea this week, a local carrier announced Sunday, bringing the iconic communications device to one of the world's most sophisticated mobile phone markets.

Researchers patent enabling technology for spread-spectrum systems

Technology / Telecom

Nov 17, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users.

Spacesuits with artificial intelligence may look for life on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts may in future be wearing spacesuits equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital eyes, turning them into what the researchers call cyborg astrobiologists.

Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

Nov 19, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A new statistical technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows scientists to scan a genome for specific gene-regulatory regions without requiring prior knowledge of the relevant transcription factors. ...

Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement

Physics / Quantum Physics

Oct 07, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (25) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already ...

The Link Between Birdsong And Human Language

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Nov 10, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 0

Scientists studying how Bengalese finches use sets of syllables to communicate are a step closer to understanding how humans develop and use vocabulary. After studying the neural networks in finch brains, ...

Why Does Water Expand When it Cools? A New Explanation

Physics / Condensed Matter

Jul 17, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (39) | 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of us, when we take our first science classes, learn that when things cool down, they shrink. (When they heat up, we learn, they usually expand.) However, water seems to be the exception ...

What is 'Real'? How Our Brain Differentiates Between Reality and Fantasy

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Mar 23, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (22) | 24

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people can easily tell the difference between reality and fantasy. We know that characters in novels and movies are fictitious, and we also understand that historical figures - even if ...

Kepler Mission Update

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 06, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kepler completed another science data download over October 18-19. In this download, a month's worth of science data was transmitted through the NASA Deep Space Network and into the Science ...

GE, Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stretch on

Technology / Business

Nov 20, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- A deal for Comcast Corp. to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal and create one of the most powerful media companies in the world is taking longer than expected as the current owners tussle over ...

Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier

Technology / Telecom

Sep 29, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (27) | 0

Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...