Bioinformatics lecturers enlist undergrads to tackle DNA annotation challenge November 25, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
In this week's issue of PLoS Biology, a team of Marseilles University lecturers led by Pascal Hingamp, describe the Annotathon – an innovative bioinformatics teaching approach that appeals to undergraduate biology ... | |
IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years November 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Unveiled today, the third annual "IBM Next Five in Five" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
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 Strong, lightweight green material could replace concrete, but contains no cement November 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Each year, coal-burning power plants, steel factories and similar facilities in the United States produce more than 125 million tons of waste, much of it fly ash and bottom ash left over from ... | |
Secret to workplace happiness? Remember what you love about the job, study urges November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Urging employees to simply rethink their jobs was enough to drop absenteeism by 60 per cent and turnover by 75 per cent, a new University of Alberta study shows. | |
 Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon 14 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Zipf’s law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, ... | |
Scientists find key to keeping killer T cells in prime shape for fighting infection, cancer November 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Like tuning a violin to produce strong, elegant notes, researchers at The Wistar Institute have found multiple receptors on the outside of the body's killer immune system cells which they believe can be selectively targeted ... | |
Creating a memory device out of paper November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology continues to shrink, and as memory needs become more demanding, the industry dealing with microelectronics requires devices that are cost-efficient and lightweight. And, while organic materials ... | |
 Fujitsu's 'Laptop4Life' program gives you a new laptop every 3 years 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Buy any LifeBook laptop from Fujitsu Siemens, and the company will provide you with a new laptop every three years until you die. The only requirements are that you need to buy a three-year ... | |
Researchers identify a potentially universal mechanism of aging November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 71 vote(s)
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Like our current financial crisis, the aging process might also be a product excessive deregulation. Researchers have discovered that DNA damage decreases a cell's ability to regulate which genes are turned on and off in ... | |
Thanksgiving sky: Jupiter, Venus, moon together November 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- It's not just families that are getting together this Thanksgiving week. The three brightest objects in the night sky - Venus, Jupiter and a crescent moon - will crowd around each other for an unusual group shot. | |
Canada's vast oil sands hide dirty environmental secret November 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 66 vote(s)
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From here in the far north of Canada through a web of transcontinental pipelines down to a network of refineries ringing the Chicago area, a new supply of precious oil has begun flowing into the gas tanks of more Americans, ... | |
 Meteorite search update: 10-ton rock responsible for fireball in Western Canada last week November 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Investigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan on November 20 has determined that an asteroid fragment weighing approximately 10 tonnes entered the Earth's atmosphere over ... | |
Major North American breakthrough for dialysis patients November 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD), a growing number of patients at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), have become the beneficiaries of a North American breakthrough: high efficacy hemodiafiltration ... | |
Sounding a warning on earbuds November 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Justin Roberts has wildly curious young fans, the type who might lean into a live monitor during one of his concerts just to see what it sounds like. | |
 Gas pump made of minerals has no moving parts November 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that a type of hard mineral called zeolite can provide a high rate of gas flow in a micro-scale gas pump. Because the pump is based simply on temperature differences ... | |
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