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Using real-time road traffic data to evaluate congestion

A new project has shown that by using existing sources of information about traffic flow it is possible to create a minute-by-minute image of congestion in cities.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mogees project delivers haptic symphony (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creative sound-making is as fluid and changing as it implies, incorporating everything from troupes that bang on every hard surface imaginable to creators of electronic music, to musicians ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog

Activision jumps into kids' game with 'Skylanders'

(AP) -- To impress kids these days, it's not enough to make another video game. Mere action figures won't do, either. So Activision is merging the two.

Technology / Software

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Foreign insects, diseases got into US

(AP) -- Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authorities were so focused on preventing another attack that they overlooked a ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Developing more accurate cold atom accelerometers

For the first time, a team of French physicists, supported by CNES and ESA, has succeeded in developing a vibration-resistant cold atom accelerometer. Tested in parabolic flight, this prototype was able to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Cacao collection expedition may yield weapons for combating witches' broom disease

Fungi found in the leaves and trunks of wild Peruvian cacao trees offer the potential for biological control of cacao diseases such as witches' broom disease, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Understanding the interplay of grains helps cars drop the pounds, be more fuel efficient

Sometimes solving the biggest challenges begins with understanding something very small -- like the tiny grains that form a piece of metal. For a team of scientists who wanted to improve automotive fuel efficiency, ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Firewood movement leading cause of oak infestation in San Diego County

A catastrophic infestation of the goldspotted oak borer, which has killed more than 80,000 oak trees in San Diego County in the last decade, might be contained by controlling the movement of oak firewood from that region, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spider scientists creep up on elusive prey

The summer sun is in full force, yet these scavengers are clutching flashlights.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Space shuttle veterans were a different breed of astronaut

As a teenager in Costa Rica, Franklin Chang-Diaz had an improbable goal: becoming an American astronaut. Ultimately, he would fly a record seven shuttle missions and today wants to fly to Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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