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Tracking tigers in 3-D

Tracking tigers in 3-D

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New software developed with help from the Wildlife Conservation Society will allow tiger researchers to rapidly identify individual animals by creating a three-dimensional model using photos taken by remote ...





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Encoded Metallic Nanowires Reveal Bioweapons

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 10, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

When dangerous infectious diseases or biological weapons are suspected, fast help is required. The first step is a reliable, sensitive, and unambiguous, yet also fast and simple, identification of the pathogen; preferably, ...


Study shows how the zebrafish gets his stripe

Biology /

created Sep 25, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered how the zebrafish (Danio rerio) develops one of its four stripes. Their findings add to the growing list of tasks carried out by an important molecule that is involved in the arrangement of everything ...


New study uncovers secrets behind butterfly wing patterns

New study uncovers secrets behind butterfly wing patterns

Biology /

created Oct 25, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The genes that make a fruit fly's eyes red also produce red wing patterns in the Heliconius butterfly found in South and Central America, finds a new study by a UC Irvine entomologist.


Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. ...


Nanowire 'barcode' system speeds biodetection in the field

Nanowire 'barcode' system speeds biodetection in the field

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 08, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Detecting biowarfare agents in the field will become a lot easier thanks to a new barcode system based on biosensing nanowires developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers.


'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains

'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes are at the center of the nanoelectronics research movement, with scientists making great progress toward getting nanotube-based electronic devices into the hands of consumers. ...


New species declared: Clouded leopard on Borneo and Sumatra

New species declared: Clouded leopard on Borneo and Sumatra

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created Mar 15, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (37) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered that the clouded leopard found on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra is an entirely new species of cat. The secretive rainforest animal was originally thought to be the same species ...


Computer Identifies Apple Appeal

Apple peel appeal: Using software to measure variances in 'honeycrisp' apple peels

Biology /

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Apples have long been associated with good health, including lower risks of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Apples also contain anthocyanins, important antioxidants that give the peels their red coloring. ...


Mollusks taste memories to build shells

Mollusks taste memories to build shells (w/Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of California, Berkeley, graduate student Alistair Boettiger has amassed a beautiful collection of seashells, but not by combing the beach. He created them in his computer.


Measurements from the Edge: Magnetic Properties of Thin Films

Measurements from the edge: magnetic properties of thin films

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 28, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, together with colleagues from IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have pushed the measurement of thin films to the ...



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