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San Diego Supercomputer Center begins cloud computing research using the Google-IBM CluE cluster

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore new ways for academic researchers ...





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US electricity grid hit by cyber attacks: report

Technology / Internet

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Chinese and Russian cyber-spies have hacked into the US electricity grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system, a report said Wednesday.


In Disaster-Prone Areas, Construction Needs a New Approach

In Disaster-Prone Areas, Construction Needs a New Approach

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In regions that have been devastated by hurricanes and other natural disasters, public officials should pursue a new direction in infrastructure projects, one that focuses on more durable designs and a greater ...


On the road to secure car-to-car communications

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers.


Belief, how European e-Infrastructure makes a difference (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of great strength, especially in e-Science and grid technology, such as the GÉANT network ...


Expert: Obama's cybersecurity response disappointing in scope

Expert: Obama's cybersecurity response disappointing in scope

Technology / Internet

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

President Barack Obama's announcement today (May 29) that he will create a cybersecurity coordinator in the White House with responsibility for information security is a step in the right direction, but more has ...


Field stations foster serendipitous discoveries in environmental, biological sciences

Field stations foster serendipitous discoveries in environmental, biological sciences

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

North America's biological field stations have long been home to a rich legacy of research results, scientists say, making them important places for serendipitous discoveries in the biological and environmental ...


Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market

Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market

Technology / Telecom

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have defied the world economic crisis by growing faster than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to a United Nations report published ...


Self-healing concrete for safer, more durable infrastructure

Self-healing concrete for safer, more durable infrastructure (w/Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A concrete material developed at the University of Michigan can heal itself when it cracks. No human intervention is necessary--just water and carbon dioxide.


EPA's new green parking lot allows scientists to study permeable surfaces that may help the environment

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Paved parking lots and driveways make our lives easier, but they often create an easy pathway for pollutants to reach underground water sources and alter the natural flow of water back into the ground. The U.S. Environmental ...


Electronic medicine, without borders?

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Disease knows no borders and now researchers in Europe and the Mediterranean shoreline are using electronic infrastructures (e-Infrastructures) to coordinate and cooperate internationally.



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