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Effortless Remote Real-Time Rendering at Your Fingertips

The technology works by breaking down the rendering calculation so that each part can be ran simultaneously across a number of machines, thus the final result…

Power and Electrical Engineering

ETH Zurich Breaks Speed Record: One Million RPM Drill

One million revolutions per minute In future it can be expected that the drill used in material processing will become even faster and the compressor used for…

Earth Sciences

New Ocean Bottom Seismometer Measures Earth Tremors Longer

A group of researchers has presented the new ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) in the magazine IEEE Transactions on instrumentation and measurement. Thanks to its…

Transportation and Logistics

SAFEDRIVE Enhances Airport Runway Safety and Efficiency

Today's airports are straining under the demands for increased capacity and high traffic throughput. This means more planes on runways but also more…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut for First Time

Fomalhaut has been a candidate for planet hunting ever since an excess of dust was discovered around the star in the early 1980s by the US- UK-Dutch Infrared…

Life & Chemistry

Sicilian Weed Joins British Genetics: A Remarkable Discovery

The researchers unravelled the remarkable history of an Italian interloper, a close relative of the common British weed Groundsel, that was first brought to…

Studies and Analyses

UK study shows kids are active but not eating their ‘5-a-day’

The study was performed by a team of researchers from The Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit and The University of East Anglia, coordinated by Esther…

Health & Medicine

Traffic Pollution Aggravates Asthma Symptoms in Children

A Mexican research team led by Dr Isabelle Romieu of the Institute Nacional de Sauld Publica, correlated pollutants associated with exacerbation of respiratory…

Business and Finance

Banking Crisis Insights: Learning From Past Regulations

“The history of regulation is largely one of regulators trying to catch up after a crisis has arisen,” says Professor Catherine Schenk, from the World Economy…

Studies and Analyses

$4.9 Million Funded for Trauma Research by Biomedical Team

The group, the Global Human Body Models Consortium (www.ghbmc.com), is funding the Center for Injury Biomechanics (www.cib.vt.edu) to conduct a study to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Unlocking Rice Dormancy Insights for Wheat Production

That discovery has important implications for both rice-producing and wheat-producing regions. If red color and dormancy in wheat are controlled by a single…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

NDSU Professor Creates 3-D Model of Plant Drinking Process

Mario Biondini, professor in the School of Natural Resource Sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, has developed a three-dimensional model…

Life & Chemistry

Light Activates New Code in Brain Cells for Neural Balance

The discovery opens the possibility that brain chemistry could be selectively altered by stimulating specific circuits to remedy low levels of neural chemicals…

Life & Chemistry

Singing in Slow Motion: Exploring Sequential Behaviors

“All our movements, from talking and walking to acrobatics or piano playing, are sequential behaviors,” explained Michale Fee, an investigator in the McGovern…

Information Technology

BEinGRID – Much More Than Your Everyday Research Project

BEinGRID, the largest ICT project financed by the European Commission, will be hosting a booth at the ICT 2008 event in Lyon on November 25-27. This release…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Impact of Violent Video Games on Heart Rate

In the study boys (12-15) were asked to play two different video games at home in the evening. The boys' heart rate was registered, among other parameters. It…

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