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Should I buy a PC or Mac?

Technology / Software

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (13) | comments 17

Q. Our 6-year-old PC computer is dying a slow death and we are considering moving to a new iMac but have a few concerns. First, of all, we have several Word documents on our disk drive now that we want to keep and add to ...


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 ...


FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

Technology / Computer Sciences

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.


Scientists prepare the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2) "Poisk"

Rocket with new module for space station blasts off

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Soyuz rocket carrying a new Russian-made module for the International Space Station blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan, television pictures showed.


Disgraced cloning expert convicted in SKorea (AP)

Disgraced cloning expert convicted in South Korea (Update)

Biology / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- A South Korean stem cell scientist once hailed as a hero for bringing hope to people with incurable diseases and creating the world's first cloned dog was convicted Monday on criminal charges related ...


Galileo Galilei

Paradigm shift: How Galileo's spy glass upended science

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Today it would hardly pass muster as a child's plaything, but the telescope Galileo used 400 years ago this week to peer into the heavens overturned the foundations of knowledge, changing our perception of ...


New research analyzes the marriage of science and law

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Distinguished Professor on the Humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law Susan Haack has recently published a research paper entitled, "Irreconcilable Differences? The ...


A scientific basis the 'golden rule' of pairing wines and foods

A scientific basis the 'golden rule' of pairing wines and foods

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists in Japan are reporting the first scientific explanation for one of the most widely known rules of thumb for pairing wine with food: "Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish." The scientists ...


Final look at ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites

Final look at ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As preparations for the launch of SMOS and Proba-2 continue on schedule, the engineers and technicians at the Russian launch site say goodbye as both satellites are encapsulated within the half-shells of the ...


LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While not the smallest lettering ever created, the tiny initials "LCLS" have been written with what may be the world's most potent pen. Etched into boron carbide, a super-hard substance used ...


Kraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop

Kraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The National Institute for Computational Sciences' (NICS's) Cray XT5 supercomputer—Kraken—has been upgraded to become the first academic system to surpass a thousand trillion calculations a second, or one ...


iPhone the body electric

iPhone the body electric: New 'apps' visualize human anatomy

Technology / Software

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs - known as applications or "apps" - to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze ...


The eScience revolution: Creating semantic Web platforms for massive scientific collaboration

The eScience revolution: Creating semantic Web platforms for massive scientific collaboration

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to hasten scientific discovery ...


Algae and pollen grains provide evidence of remarkably warm period in Antarctica's history

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 2

For Sophie Warny, LSU assistant professor of geology and geophysics and curator at the LSU Museum of Natural Science, years of patience in analyzing Antarctic samples with low fossil recovery finally led to a scientific breakthrough. ...


Nanotechnology and synthetic biology: What does the American public think?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Nanotechnology and synthetic biology continue to develop as two of the most exciting areas of scientific discovery, but research has shown that the public is almost completely unaware of the science and its applications. ...