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Social patents: Using online social networks to handle patent applications

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experts in intellectual property and patents explain in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation how tools, such as online social networking could be used to eradicate the en ...





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New technology for dating ancient rock paintings

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric ...


Hidden treasure: Technique reveals buried image in famed illustrator's painting

Hidden treasure: Technique reveals buried image in famed illustrator's painting

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists today reported use of a new X-ray imaging technique to reveal for the first time in a century unprecedented details of a painting hidden beneath another painting by famed American illustrator N.C. ...


A rare discovery: An engraved gemstone carrying a portrait of Alexander the Great

A rare discovery: An engraved gemstone carrying a portrait of Alexander the Great

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 1

A rare and surprising archaeological discovery at Tel Dor: A gemstone engraved with the portrait of Alexander the Great was uncovered during excavations by an archaeological team directed by Dr. Ayelet Gilboa ...


Google documents Iraqi museum treasures (AP)

Google documents Iraqi museum treasures

Technology / Internet

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

(AP) -- Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.


Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest

Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, ...


Incontinence sufferers have lower quality of life

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 16, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

[B]Debate continues over testing and treatment, balance may be needed[/B] An article published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology highlights the ongoing debate over whether testing is necessary prior to diagnosis and ...


Radar used to study snow, sleet, rain

Space & Earth /

created Mar 19, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The University of Helsinki has acquired a state-of-the-art polarimetric weather radar to study the physics of rain clouds, snow and sleet.


Researcher tags genes linked to disc degeneration

Researcher tags genes linked to disc degeneration

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lumbar disc degeneration is an uncomfortable condition that affects millions of people, but two University of Alberta researchers have identified some of the genes that are causing problems. ...


Supreme Court Decision Challenges Software Patents

Technology / Other

created May 04, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The KSR decision may not put an end to bad patents and patent trolls, but legal experts agree that at least it's a step forward in the always contentious field of software patents.


Satellites used to track ocean eddies

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created Mar 02, 2006 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new satellite project -- Ocean FOCUS -- is being used to warn oil production operators of warm eddies in the Gulf of Mexico.



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