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How to Spot an Influential Paper Based on its Citations
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At first it may seem that the number of citations received by a published scientific paper is directly related to that paper's quality of content. The higher the quality, the more people read ...
Jinni: Semantic Search for Movies
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most interesting things I have come across over the Internet is the movie search engine Jinni. Can't think of anything to watch tonight? Type in a phrase, and dozens of moves app ...
Dell Planning Pocket Web Gadget
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dell engineers are in the process of developing a pocket handheld device for browsing the internet. Dell plans on using the Google Inc.'s Android software and may also use chips based on designed ...
Scientists Create Smallest Ever Droplet of Acid, Solve Ozone Puzzle
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In its atomic form, chlorine can destroy vast quantities of ozone. But exactly how chlorine is created in the ultracold conditions of the stratosphere has puzzled scientists. Now, a team of ...
Scientists Observe Liquid Water Below Freezing
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Below 0 °C, water turns to ice. But beyond that, or below about -75 °C, the ice may turn back into liquid water. While scientists have previously predicted this phase transition with computer ...
First Smartphone with 1GHZ Processor (w/ Video)
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Looks like the Apple iPhone 3G S may soon have some serious competition with the soon to be announced, Toshiba TG01 smartphone. The TG01 is expected to be officially announced at the Mobile ...
Galactic Colonization Limited By The Inability To Expand Exponentially
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 50 years, many have taken the so-called Fermi Paradox to indicate that the existence of intelligent alien civilizations is an impossibility. However, a recent re-examination ...
A Glimpse of the Future MEMS-based Storage: Totally Green & Thumbnail Size
Jun 23, 2009 |
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The University of Twente--Enschede, The Netherlands published newly conferred PhD Mohammed Ghiath Khatib's thesis, "MEMS-based Storage Devices: Integration in Energy-Constrained Mobile System". The new MEMS, ...
Jatropha Helps Air New Zealand Cut Its CO2 Emissions by More Than 60%
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Recently, Air New Zealand ran a test flight of a jet plane fueled with a biofuel blend made with jatropha. The results showed a fuel savings of 1.2%, amounting to more than a ton of fuel over the course of ...
Passing cars to generate energy for new UK supermarket
Jun 17, 2009 |
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A new grocery store in the UK opening today will generate energy every time a customer drives into the parking lot. Sainsbury's, located in Gloucester, is the first European store to feature "Kinetic Road ...
Multi-core ARM Chips Slated For Smartphones Next Year
Jun 16, 2009 |
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ARM is the chip design company that makes processors for smartphones like the Palm Pre and Apple iPhone 3G. By next year we can expect to see dual-core processors in smartphones, with quad-core to follow sometime ...
Nvidia Adds Five New GPU's to Their Mobile Line
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Nvidia adds five new GPU's to their mobile GeForce lineup. These new chips have up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips.
Professor Interrupted: Gender Differences in High Level Engineering, Science and Math Institutions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 12, 2009 |
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A soon to be released exhaustive study entitled "Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty (2009)" published by The National Academies Press finds improvements ...
Microsoft to Offer Free Antivirus Protection
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Microsoft is gearing up to offer Windows users a free real-time antivirus protection. Code name Morro, the antivirus product will be a hosted service. Morro works by routing all users Internet traffic to a ...
Sunlight Trap Could Lead to New Generation of Solar Devices
Jun 11, 2009 |
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In the Greek legend of Dionysius' ear, Dionysius made a cave shaped like an ellipse in order to hear the words whispered by a prisoner in one of the foci of the cave. Some science museums today feature a similar ...
