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Finding Chicago's Food Gardens With Google Earth
January 3, 2013 — Urban agriculture is promoted as a strategy for dealing with food insecurity, stimulating economic development, and combating diet-related health problems in cities. However, up to now, no one has ... > full story -
Jumping Droplets Help Heat Transfer: Scalable Nanopatterned Surfaces for More Efficient Power Generation and Desalination
January 3, 2013 — Many industrial plants depend on water vapor condensing on metal plates: In power plants, the resulting water is then returned to a boiler to be vaporized again; in desalination plants, it yields a ... > full story -
Turning Smartphones Into Secure and Versatile Keys
January 3, 2013 — It's already possible to open doors using an app -- but we are a long way from seeing widespread acceptance of this in the market. Now, researchers have developed a piece of software that will make ... > full story -
How Computers Push on the Molecules They Simulate
January 3, 2013 — Simulations are essential to test theories and explore what's inaccessible to direct experiment. Digital computers can't use exact, continuous equations of motion and have to slice time into chunks, ... > full story -
Video Analysis: Detecting Text Every Which Way
January 3, 2013 — Software that detects and extracts text from within video frames, making it searchable, is set to make a vast resource even more ... > full story -
New Design for Basic Component of Computer Chips: Researchers Demonstrate Record-Setting P-Type Transistor
January 2, 2013 — Almost all computer chips use two types of transistors: one called p-type, for positive, and one called n-type, for negative. Improving the performance of the chip as a whole requires parallel ... > full story -
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
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