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A third dimension for mobile phones

Technology / Engineering

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three-dimensional viewing has not yet made it in a big way onto our television and cinema screens. According to European researchers, the story of 3-D TV is set to be quite different with mobile devices, ...


Super-resolution microscopy takes on a third dimension

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The shapes of some of the tiniest cellular structures are coming into sharper focus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus, where scientists have developed a new imaging technology that produces ...





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The goal of robot hockey: to become better engineers

The goal of robot hockey: to become better engineers (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may be a long time before we see robots shooting pucks and making saves in professional hockey, but second-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Alberta put some pretty ...


Invention will help speed development of drug treatments for heart failure

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research conducted by University of Minnesota scientists, in collaboration with Celladon Corporation, has led to the invention of technology to more rapidly identify compounds for the treatment of heart failure.


Schizophrenia gene's role may be broader, more potent, than thought

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF scientists studying nerve cells in fruit flies have uncovered a new function for a gene whose human equivalent may play a critical role in schizophrenia.


Hoping for a fluorescent basket case: How HIV is assembled and released from infected cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Although recent advances have raised hopes that a protective vaccine can be developed, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains a major public health problem. Much has been learned about HIV-1, the virus that causes ...


Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function

Weather-sensitive architectural skins integrate form with function

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end, she has created architectural "skins," ...


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Second Life creates virtual world for businesses

Technology / Internet

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Linden Lab on Wednesday announced it is adding a new dimension to Second Life online world to give businesses private places for virtual meetings.


Flemish researchers develop revolutionary technology for use in plant breeding

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In collaboration with researchers at VIB-UGent and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), scientists at the BioScience business group of Bayer CropScience AG in Gent have developed a technology that can significantly increase ...


New Urbanspoon app digs into restaurant reservations

Technology / Software

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Something big is shaking at Urbanspoon, the Seattle company behind a hugely successful iPhone restaurant-finding application.


The explainer: P vs. NP -- The most notorious problem in theoretical computer science remains open

P vs. NP -- The most notorious problem in theoretical computer science remains open

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 5

In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wander ...


Think what you eat: Studies point to cellular factors linking diet and behavior

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New research released today is affirming a long-held maxim: you are what you eat — and, more to the point, what you eat has a profound influence on the brain. The findings offer insight into the neurobiological factors behind ...



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