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Finnish IT Center For Science Upgrades Cray Supercomputer To One Of Europe’s Most Powerful
November 13, 2008 — CSC's Cray supercomputer has been upgraded to over 85 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second). This makes the new Cray XT5 system at CSC the most powerful academic supercomputer ... > full story -
SAFEDRIVE Delivers Safety And Efficiency On Airport Runways
November 13, 2008 — French and Portuguese partners, working together in the EUREKA-funded SAFEDRIVE project, have developed an important new satellite navigation-based system for managing airport ground ... > full story -
Computerized Carer Lessens Dementia Load
November 12, 2008 — An artificial intelligence coaching system has been developed that will help carers of older adults with moderate dementia. The COACH system uses a camera and computer to deliver interactive advice ... > full story -
Certain Types Of Thinking Are Best Suited To Certain Types Of Problem-solving
November 12, 2008 — Geometry problems are best solved by a combination of verbal and spatial strategies, but not shape-based imagery ... > full story -
Nano-scale Electromechanical Sensors In Handheld Devices
November 12, 2008 — Physicists are researching nano-scale cantilevers that have the potential to read and alert us to toxic chemicals or gases in the air. Put them into a small handheld device and the potential is there ... > full story -
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Text Messaging May Help Children Fight Off Obesity
November 12, 2008 — Cell phone text messaging could be used to reduce children's chances of becoming overweight or obese later in life, by helping them monitor and modify their own behaviors ... > full story -
Free Software Gets An Education
November 12, 2008 — Companies, organizations and citizens spend billions of dollars a year on licensing fees for proprietary software. Could that money not be put to better use developing free software alternatives and ... > full story -
Light-speed Computer Connection Will Slash Genetic Data Transfer Time
November 12, 2008 — Hot on the heels of a new supercomputer, plans for a new light-speed data line between the Translational Genomics Research Institute and Arizona State University could slash the time is takes to ... > full story -
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Forced Evolution: Can We Mutate Viruses To Death?
November 11, 2008 — Can scientists create a designer drug that forces viruses to mutate themselves out of existence? A new study by bioengineers could help make it happen. The study offers the most comprehensive ... > full story -
Mass Production Method For Nanomaterial Graphene Devised
November 11, 2008 — Graphene sheets have an array of attractive benefits in electronics but research on them has been restricted due to the difficulty of creating single layer samples. An article in the journal Nature ... > full story -
Economic Incentives For Analysts Play Role In Determining Street Earnings
November 11, 2008 — Researchers have found that analysts' self-interests often influence the value of street earnings, which makes street earnings less useful for predicting future earnings of high-growth ... > full story -
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Online Tools Help Organize Internet Resources And Improve Educational Searches
November 11, 2008 — With universities storing ever more teaching resources online, how do students and tutors find what they need? Researchers have devised novel ways to classify and locate teaching materials – ... > full story
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