News tagged with scientific
NASA Challenges 350 Rocketeers Nationwide to Aim a Mile High
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has invited more than 350 student rocketeers from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities -- 37 teams nationwide -- to take part in the 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Projects.
Where are the female scientists in research articles?
Dec 04, 2009 |
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A recent research article published in the journal Scientometrics by a team from the University of Extremadura (UEX) has proved something that was already obvious to its scientific community - the extreme imbala ...
UK climate scientist to temporarily step down
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the ...
Britain's Royal Society puts rare scientific manuscripts online
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Historic manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and other ground-breaking scientists will be published online for the first time, Britain's Royal Society said Monday.
Should I buy a PC or Mac?
Nov 25, 2009 |
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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
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 25, 2009 |
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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
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(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.
Rocket with new module for space station blasts off
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009 |
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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 South Korea (Update)
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Paradigm shift: How Galileo's spy glass upended science
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2009 |
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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
Oct 21, 2009 |
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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
Oct 21, 2009 |
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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
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 21, 2009 |
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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?
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(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
Oct 08, 2009 |
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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 ...
