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Second Life: 'Second China' Offers Foreign Service Workers First Impression
November 20, 2008 — Diplomats or military envoys making their first trip to China may soon have a chance to visit a Chinese office building, stop in at a traditional teahouse or hop a cab -- all before they board a ... > full story -
Battling Bacteria In The Blood: Mathematical Models Help In Tackling Deadly Infections
November 19, 2008 — It's a leading cause of death, but no one knows for sure how and why it happens. It's a major source of health care costs, adding days or weeks to the hospital stays of millions of people. But no one ... > full story -
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Oak Ridge Supercomputer Is The World's Fastest For Science
November 17, 2008 — A Cray XT high-performance computing system at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world's fastest supercomputer for science. The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has a peak performance of 1.64 ... > full story -
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Disease Modeling: Mathematical Models Resolve Controversy Over Nicotine Addiction
November 14, 2008 — Human disease research produces an enormous amount of data from different sources such as animal models, high throughput genetic screening of human tissue, and in vitro laboratory experiments. This ... > full story -
Prototyping With Industrial Robots
November 14, 2008 — A shipping company must exercise patience whenever it needs a new a ship's propeller: its production is time consuming because a foundry workers must first fashion a model and a mold based on it. ... > full story -
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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 -
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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 -
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Computer Model Can Predict Human Behavior And Learning
November 10, 2008 — A new computer model can predict how people will complete a controlled task and how the knowledge needed to complete that task develops over ... > full story -
How Evolution Learns From Past Environments To Adapt To New Environments
November 10, 2008 — The evolution of novel characteristics within organisms can be enhanced when environments change in a systematic manner, according to a new study. Researchers suggest that in environments that vary ... > full story -
Robots Show That Brain Activity Is Linked To Time As Well As Space
November 7, 2008 — Humanoid robots have been used to show that that functional hierarchy in the brain is linked to time as well as space. Researchers in Japan have created a new type of neural network model which adds ... > full story -
'Beauty Machine' Makes Average Face A Knockout With A Single Click
November 7, 2008 — Our mothers told us that true beauty is more than skin deep — but researchers are now challenging Mom. They’ve built a beauty machine that, with the press of a button, turns a picture of ... > full story -
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Computers Effective In Verifying Mathematical Proofs
November 7, 2008 — New computer tools have the potential to revolutionize the practice of mathematics by providing more-reliable proofs of mathematical results than have ever been possible in the history of humankind. ... > full story
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