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Argonne cloud computing helps scientists run high energy physics experiments

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds." The ...





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Nimbus and cloud computing meet STAR production demands

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. ...


Social networking meets ambient intelligence (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharing small snippets of information about your daily life is a key feature of the online social networking revolution. Soon status updates and other social information could be generated automatically.


Picking quality health care: New study shows a little context makes a big difference

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A hospital pneumonia survival rate of 93 percent may sound good, but knowing that it's actually merely "fair" can help people pick a better hospital, according to new research. A "good" survival rate would be from 95 percent ...


Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'

Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many people have tried to read Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," whose publication celebrates its 150th anniversary this month, but gave up.


Is it e-government's saviour? An automatic knowledge filter

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative new knowledge management concept has the potential to revolutionise the way government administrators work.


FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.


New brain findings on dyslexic children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...


Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented

Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 2

When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder ...


Face off: Misunderstood expressions facilitate adolescent aggression

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Juvenile delinquency may be a result of misunderstood social cues. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health shows that male juvenile delinquents frequently misint ...


Mexican health care reform has been convoluted and ineffective

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A Policy Forum published in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine argues that twenty-five years of health care reforms in Mexico have increased insurance coverage but have not resulted in greater efficiency and ha ...



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