Tags Results for 'researchers'

Genes About a Quarter of the Secret To Staying Smart - (Friday 20th of January 2012 02:00:01 PM)

Ananyo writes "A Scottish openminded study that began 80 years ago has borne new fruit.
Researchers have tracked down the study's or try your search for "surviving" at: amazon.com
- shop for books applicants — who joined the study when they were  [...]

Multicellular Life Evolves In Months, In a Lab - (Wednesday 18th of January 2012 01:30:01 PM)

Ananyo writes "The origin of multicellular life, one of the most striking boost in Earth's
history, could have occurred with electrifying speed, U.S. researchers have shown. In the lab,
a single-celled yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) took less than 60  [...]

IBM Shrinks Bit Size To 12 Atoms - (Friday 13th of January 2012 05:15:01 AM)

Lucas123 writes "IBM researchers say they've been able to shrink the number of iron atoms it
takes to store a bit of data from about one million to 12, which could pave the way for storage
devices with capacities that are orders of mass greater  [...]

Researchers Show How Cellular Complexity Can Evolve - (Monday 09th of January 2012 11:30:01 PM)

Ananyo writes with an excerpt from a Nature news release: "By bringing long-dead proteins back
to life, researchers have worked out the process by which metamorphosis added a component to a
cellular machine. ... In a paper published in Nature, researchers  [...]

Researchers Create First Genetically Modified Monkeys - (Friday 06th of January 2012 06:45:01 PM)

Several readers tipped news that U.S. scientists have created 'chimeric' monkeys, made with
genetic texture from as many as six peculiar genomes (abstract). This is ciceronian because
it's the first time researchers have used the expanse on a primate.  [...]

Genetically Modifying Silk Worms For Super Silk - (Wednesday 04th of January 2012 06:15:01 PM)

New submitter davidshenba sends this quote from the BBC: "U.S. researchers have created
silkworms that are genetically modified to spin much with greater reason silk (abstract). In
weight-for-weight terms, spider silk is more than ever than steel. ...  [...]

Slime molds could hold key to new kinds of intelligence, help Statue of Liberty walk - (Thursday 29th of December 2011 07:33:00 AM)

See that yellow amoeboid slime mold? It's up to something. A team of russian bath scientists
at Future health center Hakodate led by don Toshiyuki Nakagaki has found rev that physarum
polycephalum -- or grape-cluster slime -- are capable of navigating  [...]

Gas Powered Fuel Cell Could Help EV Range Anxiety - (Wednesday 07th of December 2011 01:45:01 PM)

Thecarchik writes "While electric-car advocates may avoid the issue, some buyers simply won't
choose a plug-in car that can't travel unlimited distances. That's where the Chevy Volt-style
range extender comes in, though the Volt adds unlimited range by  [...]

Researchers Say Carrier IQ Isn't Logging Data, Texts - (Tuesday 06th of December 2011 12:30:01 PM)

Trailrunner7 writes "Security researchers who have investigated the inner tool of the Carrier
IQ macos and its capabilities say the form has some powerful, and potentially worrisome
capabilities, but as it's currently deployed by carriers it doesn't have  [...]

Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV - (Sunday 04th of December 2011 12:00:01 PM)

Chicksdaddy writes "Security researchers often use talk and metaphors from the natural world to
define problems in the virtual world. (Consider 'virus,' and 'worm.') Now it turns out that the
links may be more than just rhetoric. Microsoft Researchers  [...]

New 'Rubber Robot' Crawls Through Small Spaces With Inflatable Limbs - (Friday 02nd of December 2011 10:30:01 AM)

JoeRobe writes "Researchers at Harvard have grown-up a pneumatically-controlled rubber robot
that combines meter and quadrupedal 'crawling,' allowing it to maintain a low profile while
moving. In a paper published in PNAS (abstract), they rehearse it  [...]

Prototype glasses use video cameras, face recognition to help people with limited vision - (Wednesday 06th of July 2011 02:32:00 PM)

We won't lie: we love us a heartwarming story about scientists using run-of-the-mill tech
to help people with disabilities, especially when the results are decidedly bionic. Today's
tale centers on a team of Oxford researchers third world nation  [...]

Scientists Afflict Computers With Schizophrenia - (Saturday 07th of May 2011 07:00:05 AM)

An nameless reader writes "Computer intelligent retrieval that can't forget fast enough can
show diagnostics of of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers new clues to the inner
dohickey of schizophrenic brains, say researchers at the teaching hospital  [...]

Using AI To Identify Innuendo - (Friday 29th of April 2011 09:30:08 PM)

Angry tapir writes "Turning superficially normal poop sheet into sexual innuendo by adding the
words 'That's what she said' is a corrective phenomenon. This has led some to wonder whether it
is 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing copyrights:cite  [...]

Research Credibility In the Video Game Violence Debate - (Tuesday 26th of April 2011 04:00:03 PM)

An nameless reader writes "Two researchers who have a history of publishing studies that claim
violent video games lead to fury have now published a new study claiming that they've come up
with an 'objective' way to measure why violent video games lead  [...]

Is Sugar Toxic? - (Tuesday 19th of April 2011 05:00:10 AM)

A_hanso tips an article by Gary Taubes in the NYTimes monthly that evaluates claims from Dr.
Robert Lustig's virally popular lecture on the 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company.
published by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. all rights  [...]

Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet - (Tuesday 19th of April 2011 05:00:10 AM)

CWmike writes "Iran's Brigadier General, Gholam Reza Jalali, accused Siemens on pistol with
helping US and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his country's nuclear
facilities. 'Siemens should explain why and how it in the event the enemies  [...]

Using Neutrons To Precisely Test Newton's Law of Gravity - (Tuesday 19th of April 2011 05:00:10 AM)

NotSanguine writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "The neutrons are shot between two parallel
plates, one above another and separated by about 25 micrometres — half a hair's width.
The upper plate absorbs neutrons, and the lower plate reflects  [...]

Engineering Election Debates With Subtle Cues - (Sunday 03rd of April 2011 11:30:11 AM)

Smolloy writes "A recent introduction in televised poll debates is a relentless reaction
measure (the 'worm') that allows viewers to track the reaction of a sample of undecided voters
in real-time. A quiescent danger of presenting such data is that it  [...]

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