News tagged with virtual library
UCLA team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts
Google "Edward the Confessor" and you'll get page after page of links to biographies of this 11th-century English king, to Westminster Abbey, which he founded and where he is buried, and to the Magna Carta, which was partly ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Explained: Sigma
It's a question that arises with virtually every major new finding in science or medicine: What makes a result reliable enough to be taken seriously? The answer has to do with statistical significance -- but ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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New Kindle Touch is an impressive e-reader
When it comes to reading digital books, tablets are all the rage. But there's a lot to like about simple e-readers, which over the past year have become both a lot cheaper and a lot less clunky.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 09, 2012 |
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A therapist in your pocket
Brooding in your apartment on Saturday afternoon? A new smart phone intuits when you're depressed and will nudge you to call or go out with friends.
Feb 07, 2012 |
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NVIDIA dresses up CUDA parallel computing platform
(PhysOrg.com) -- This week’s NVIDIA announcement of a dressed up version of its CUDA parallel computing platform is targeted as a good news message for engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists, geophysicists, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 28, 2012 |
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New approach to combat intractable bacterial infections
(Medical Xpress) -- Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibiotics—and save lives—as the power of our antibiotics ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Powerful pixels: Mapping the 'Apollo Zone'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Grayscale pixels – up close, they look like black, white or grey squares. But when you zoom out to see the bigger picture, they can create a digital photograph, like this one of our moon.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 29, 2011 |
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Anthropologist offers view of snakes as predatory, prey, and competitor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Because we humans are able to write down our greatest fears, we’ve managed to amass quite a library of frightful things over the past several hundred years. One particular fear that ...
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Humbled Netflix CEO still thinking, talking big
(AP) -- To hear Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tell it, the bone-headed decisions that have dragged down the Internet's leading video subscription service during the past five months eventually will be forgotten like a bad movie ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Defining a cyberbully
"I was cyberbullied at age 40 by someone that tried to beat me up in high school," says a person posting on a website that chronicles stories of people intimidated through digital communications.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 09, 2011 |
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New European project launched to address shortcomings in climate data
A major European joint research project has kicked off to establish the infrastructure and expertise needed to make earth measurements which are sufficiently accurate to make reliable predictions about the effects of climate ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2011 |
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