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'Seeing' the quantum world

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (17) | comments 7

Quantum physics is both mysterious and difficult to grasp. Barry Sanders, director of the University of Calgary's Institute for Quantum Information Science, is hoping to change that.


Report: AMD ex-CEO said linked to Galleon case

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is "thoroughly reviewing" published reports fingering former chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz as the AMD executive who gave confidential company information to a defendant in the ...





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Structural biology scores with protein snapshot

Structural biology scores with protein snapshot

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

In a landmark technical achievement, investigators in the Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology have used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods to determine the structure of the largest membrane-spanning ...


HIV screening found cost-effective in older adults

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recent studies suggest that large numbers of Americans remain sexually active well into their 60's, 70's and even 80's. But researchers at Duke University Medical Center say seniors may be overlooked as possible carriers ...


GreedyMe to help with present lists

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created Nov 18, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new Web site called GreedyMe.com has been launched that allows users to create online wish lists.


Where Surgery Was the Standard, Casting May Be the Future

Where Surgery Was the Standard, Casting May Be the Future (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Other

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) may lead doctors to choose to tweak an old technology ? casting ? over using high-tech implantable devices for children ...


Keeping computing compatible

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As distributed computing becomes universal, the programs that make devices work really have to work together. European researchers have gone back to basics to create a development toolkit that guarantees ...


A picture paints more than a petabyte of data

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (15) | comments 2

In the age of the petabyte, we all need help digesting and understanding massive amounts of information. In this month's Physics World, a series of features celebrates the ascendance of visual methods that are being used t ...


Researcher hits bulls-eye for antibiotic target

Researcher hits bulls-eye for antibiotic target

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created Aug 22, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A Purdue University researcher has opened the door for possible antibiotic treatments for a variety of diseases by determining the structure of a protein that controls the starvation response of E. coli.


Fossil Is Missing Link in Elephant Lineage

Fossil Is Missing Link in Elephant Lineage

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 01, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

A pig-sized, tusked creature that roamed the earth some 27 million years ago represents a missing link between the oldest known relatives of elephants and the more recent group from which modern elephants descended, ...


Scientists work to stop chocolate going the way of George Clooney

Scientists work to stop chocolate going the way of George Clooney

Chemistry /

created Jun 10, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (18) | comments 2

What do George Clooney and old chocolate have in common? Both are still delicious but have greyed with age – and while this certainly hasn’t damaged the image of the former ER star, it does detract from the ...


Laser scientist illuminates research in living color

Laser scientist illuminates research in living color

Physics /

created Apr 28, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In art, color is information. Just look at a painting by an artist such as Monet: Each uniquely hued brushstroke brings to life a new blade of grass, a leaf, a flower petal, a slice of sky-each a component ...



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