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• Evolution
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  Why Do Organisms Build Tissues They Seemingly Never Use?

  August 10, 2012 — Why, after millions of years of evolution, do organisms build structures that seemingly serve no purpose? A new study investigates the evolutionary reasons why organisms go through developmental ... > full story
• Software
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  Educational Psychology
  Computer Modeling
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  Tracking Fruit Flies to Understand the Function of the Nervous System

  August 9, 2012 — Researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain have designed open source software that allows tracking the ... > full story
• Aviation
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  Civil Engineering
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  Transformed X-48c Flies Successfully

  August 7, 2012 — The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Aug. 7 at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The aircraft, designed by The Boeing Co. and built by ... > full story
• Detectors
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  A Simple Way to Help Cities Monitor Traffic More Accurately

  August 7, 2012 — New software helps in-road traffic detectors count cars more accurately -- and save city planners ... > full story
• Information Technology
  Hacking
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  What Makes Paris Look Like Paris? Software Finds Stylistic Core

  August 7, 2012 — Paris is one of those cities that has a look all its own, something that goes beyond landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame. Researchers have developed visual data mining software that can ... > full story
• Computer Modeling
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  Broadening Researcher Access to Protein Simulation

  August 6, 2012 — Using just an upgraded desktop computer equipped with a relatively inexpensive graphics processing card, a team of computer scientists and biochemists has developed advanced GPU accelerated software ... > full story
• Mobile Computing
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  Making Mobile Better: Mobile Computing Devices May Overtake Personal Computer for Internet Use in 2013

  August 2, 2012 — Mobile computing devices will probably overtake the personal computer as the most common means for accessing the Internet worldwide sometime in 2013 and it may not be a seamless transition, according ... > full story
• Distributed Computing
  Computer Modeling
  Computer Science
  Encryption
  Hacking
  Nature of Water
   
  

  Data Storage: Keeping Things in Place

  August 2, 2012 — Fluid dynamics simulations aim to better predict how air circulating in a hard disk drive perturbs the vibrating read/write ... > full story
• Information Technology
  Computer Programming
  Artificial Intelligence
  Hacking
  Software
  Encryption
   

  Writing Graphics Software Gets Much Easier: New Programming Language Yields Code That’s Much Shorter and Clearer -- But Also Faster

  August 1, 2012 — A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that's much shorter and clearer -- but also ... > full story
• Cosmic Rays
  Cosmology
  Detectors
  Medical Technology
  Astronomy
  Physics
   

  100 Years of Cosmic Rays Mystery

  July 31, 2012 — Experts explain how physicists have gradually revealed the nature of cosmic rays and examines the progress being made in understanding where they come ... > full story

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