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Supercomputer Flexibility Increased by Virtualized Operating System

But new work on Sandia National Laboratories’ Red Storm supercomputer — the 17th fastest in the world — is helping to make supercomputers more accessible, in…

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Researchers Develop New Bushfire Warning Device

The same technology used to send SMS messages on mobile phones could be used to develop an efficient and cost-effective early warning message to authorities…

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Newest Mobile Radar Will Help Study Rain, Snow Storms

The “X-band” radar looks straight up to probe the structures and dynamics of storms as they pass over the university's severe weather research team, according…

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Stealth Data: Elevating PC Data Protection on Windows

Data can now be protected better than ever before with the Windows operating system, without leaving the slightest trace or giving away the tiniest hint of its…

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"Sleeping Beauty" – Molecule of the Year

The transposon was generated by Dr. Zsuzsanna Izsvák, Dr. Zoltán Ivics and Dr. Lajos Mátés of the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany. It was selected out…

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New Research Uses Electric Fields to Transform Data Properties

Researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the French research facility CNRS, south of Paris, are using electric fields to manipulate the property of…

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Robots Inspired by Insect Movement Patterns for Science

Even simple insects can generate quite different movement patterns with their six legs. The animal uses various gaits depending on whether it crawls uphill or…

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GOES-P Spacecraft Processing Underway in Florida

The GOES-P spacecraft is currently being processed at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida. Prior to the holiday break the Payload Attached…

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Record-Breaking Prime Number Decomposition Achieved

Extrapolating the trend from previous records in this area (512-bit in 1999, 663-bit in 2005, and the current 768-bit in 2009), it is reasonable to expect that…

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Mobile Technologies Enhance Bushfire Monitoring Efforts

Mobile technologies, including the global system for mobile communication (GSM) and the ZigBee short-range wireless data connection technology could be used to…

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Handheld Touch Screen Device May Lead to Mobile Fingerprint ID

So they came to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The FBI told NIST they wanted something more portable than the 20-pound rugged…

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Knowledge Computing: New Insights for Scientific Research

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) and at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) of Forschungszentrum…

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'Fighting' IED Attacks with SCARE Technology

University of Maryland computer science Ph.D. student Paulo Shakarian and computer science Professor V.S. Subrahmanian, together with University of Torino…

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Digital Avalanche Rescue Dog Enhances Ski Safety Efforts

For many skiers and snowboarders, there is nothing quite like being the first to make tracks in the virgin snow, off the regular piste. But this can be a…

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Intel and DFKI Collaborate on Future 3D Internet Innovations

DFKI aggregates research excellence and application orientation. In May 2009, Justin Rattner, Director of the Corporate Technology Group and Intel Chief…

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New Cell Phone Technology Allows Deaf People To Communicate – Via American Sign Language – Anytime, Anywhere

“We completely take cell phones for granted,” said Sheila Hemami, Cornell professor of electrical and computer engineering, who leads the research with Eve…

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