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Common Data Determinants of Recurrent Cancer Are Broken, Mislead Researchers
January 2, 2013 In order to study the effectiveness or cost effectiveness of treatments for recurrent cancer, you first have to discover the patients in medical databases who have recurrent cancer. Unfortunately, ... > full story -
Toward Reducing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the Internet and Telecommunications
January 2, 2013 Amid growing concern over the surprisingly large amount of greenhouse gas produced by the Internet and other telecommunications activities, researchers are reporting new models of emissions and ... > full story -
Secure Communication Technology Can Conquer Lack of Trust
January 2, 2013 Many scenarios in business and communication require that two parties share information without either being sure if they can trust the other. Examples include secure auctions and identification at ... > full story -
Tool to Evaluate Genome Sequencing Method Developed
January 2, 2013 Advances in bio-technologies and computer software have helped make genome sequencing much more common than in the past. But still in question are both the accuracy of different sequencing methods ... > full story -
Teenagers Without Internet Access at Home Are Educationally Disadvantaged, UK Study Suggests
December 30, 2012 A major in-depth study examining how teenagers in the UK are using the internet and other mobile devices says the benefits of using such technologies far outweigh any perceived ... > full story -
Virtual Women Reveal More Skin, Regardless of Body Proportions
December 26, 2012 In the virtual world of Second Life, female avatars expose substantially more skin than males, independent of their virtual body proportions, according to new ... > full story -
Physicists Take Photonic Topological Insulators to the Next Level
December 21, 2012 Researchers have designed a simulation that for the first time emulates key properties of electronic topological insulators. Topological insulators, a state of matter that was only discovered in the ... > full story -
Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds
December 20, 2012 A new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will be born. The online experience, called Clouds, is a new addition to the Milky Way ... > full story -
How Songbirds Learn to Sing: Mathematical Model Explains How Birds Correct Mistakes to Stay on Key
December 20, 2012 Scientists studying how songbirds stay on key have developed a statistical explanation for why some things are harder for the brain to learn than others, building the first mathematical model that ... > full story -
On-Demand Synaptic Electronics: Circuits That Learn and Forget
December 20, 2012 Researchers in Japan and the US propose a nanoionic device with a range of neuromorphic and electrical multifunctions that may allow the fabrication of on-demand configurable circuits, analog ... > full story
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