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Creating 3D models with a simple webcam

Creating 3D models with a simple webcam (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Constructing virtual 3D models usually requires heavy and expensive equipment, or takes lengthy amounts of time. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge, Qi Pan, Dr Gerhard Reitmayr ...


Plastic surgeons offer microsurgery technique for breast reconstruction, tummy tuck after mastectomy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Since her teens, Jennifer Jablon had watched family members deal with breast cancer during their 40s, 50s, and 60s. She wondered whether it would be her fate too.





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Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.


Timing of surgery for knee injuries may not affect outcomes

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multiple-ligament knee injuries resulting from traumatic knee dislocations - such as high impact car accidents or certain sports are uncommon, and the optimal timing of surgical repair or reconstruction has not been definitively ...


Scientists gain new understanding of disease-causing bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, ...


New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...


New tool for helping pediatric heart surgery

Physics / General Physics

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

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs. It is the basis of a new tool that may help ...


Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In ...


First reconstitution of an epidermis from human embryonic stem cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stem cell research is making great strides. This is yet again illustrated by a study carried out by the I-STEM Institute (France), published in the Lancet on 21 November 2009. The I-STEM team, directed by Marc Peschanski has su ...


Measuring Electron Orbitals

Measuring Electron Orbitals

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, it has been possible to measure electron density in individual molecular states using what is known as the photoelectric effect. Now published in Science, this method repres ...


Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative ...


Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which ...



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