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Big Data, for Better or Worse: 90% of World's Data Generated Over Last Two Years
May 22, 2013 A full 90 percent of all the data in the world has been generated over the last two years. Internet-based companies are awash with data that can be grouped and utilized. Is this a good ... > full story -
Minus Environment, Patterns Still Emerge: Computational Study Tracks E. Coli Cells' Regulatory Mechanisms
May 21, 2013 Random mutations and genetic drift, rather than design principles, may explain the emergence of regulatory network properties in E. ... > full story -
Ethicists' Behavior Not More Moral
May 21, 2013 Do ethicists engage in better moral behavior than other professors? The answer is no. Nor are they more likely than nonethicists to act according to values they ... > full story -
NASA's IRIS Mission Readies for a New Challenge
May 21, 2013 NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar ... > full story -
Visual Search Function: Where Scene Context Happens in Our Brain
May 21, 2013 Though a seemingly simple and intuitive strategy, visual search function -- a process that takes mere seconds for the human brain -- is still something that a computer can't do as accurately. Over ... > full story -
How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages
May 20, 2013 Individuals who learn two languages at an early age seem to switch back and forth between separate "sound systems" for each language, according to new research. The research addresses enduring ... > full story -
Fastest Measurements Ever Made of Ion Channel Proteins
May 20, 2013 Engineers have used miniaturized electronics to measure the activity of individual ion-channel proteins with temporal resolution as fine as one microsecond, producing the fastest recordings of single ... > full story -
Telerehabilitation Allows Accurate Assessment of Patients With Low Back Pain
May 20, 2013 A new "telerehabilitation" approach lets physical therapists assess patients with low back pain over the Internet, with good accuracy compared with face-to-face examinations, reports a new ... > full story -
Fossil Brain Teaser: New Study Reveals Patterns of Dinosaur Brain Development
May 20, 2013 A new study sheds light on how the brain and inner ear developed in dinosaurs. Using high-resolution CT scanning and 3D computer imaging, it was possible to reconstruct and visualise the brain and ... > full story -
Competition in the Quantum World
May 19, 2013 Physicists have gained a deep insight into the nature of quantum mechanical phase transitions. Scientists have simulated the competition between two rival dynamical processes at a novel type of ... > full story
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