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UK Scientific Research Boosted by NGS Innovations

Established in 2004 and now with over 500 accredited users, the NGS is in use extensively across a wide range of research disciplines such as bioinformatics.

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Advancing Radar and Communications Systems at Argonne

Argonne's program partners are Advanced Diamond Technologies, Inc. (ADT), Innovative Micro Technology (IMT), MEMtronics Corp., Peregrine Semiconductor the…

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Designing Semantic Software: Insights from the NeOn Project

Semantic applications are the next frontier for information science, but creating them is very difficult. Now, European researchers in the NeOn project are…

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Jason-2 Launch Enhances Australian Ocean Science Insights

Jason-2, or the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), is a joint venture between NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

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Customize Your Travel Experience with New Software Innovation

Through a computer, a mobile or a PDA, users can define their needs, their artistic, cultural and gastronomic preferences, their lifestyle and their favourite…

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Exciton-Based Circuits Eliminate a ‘Speed Trap’ Between Computing and Communication Signals

Integrated circuits, assemblies of transistors that are the building blocks for all electronic devices, currently use electrons to ferry the signals needed for…

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Argonne’s Supercomputer Named World’s Fastest for Open Science, Third Overall

The Top500 List was announced today during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. The Blue Gene/P – known as Intrepid and located at…

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Scientists Clarify Evolutionary Differences Between Humans and Chimpanzees

What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute [EMBL-EBI] have come…

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Innovative Network Aims to Enhance Medical Information Sharing

However the system, which was meant to allow them to share medical information across a network, highlighted the limits of computer ‘understanding’. Unlike…

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Space radar to improve miners’ safety

Using space technology developed for ESA for the special ground penetration radar GINGER (Guidance and Into-the-Ground Exploration Radar) that will be mounted…

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Customize Your Travel Experience With New Software Innovation

This technology, researcher adds, is open and interoperable, and therefore it is very appropriate to be integrated in existing systems, such as web sites.Users…

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New Intrusion Tolerance Software Enhances Server Security

The increasing sophistication and incessant morphing of cyber-attacks lend importance to the concept of intrusion tolerance: a system must fend off, or at…

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Improving Ambulance Response Times: Cornell’s New Approach

A National Science Foundation grant of almost $300,000 is allowing associate professor of operations research Shane Henderson, assistant professor of…

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Victorian Premier Plans to Build World’s Largest Life Sciences Supercomputer Facility

Australia’s Victorian Premier John Brumby today announced a $100 million (AUD) initiative to build the world’s largest life sciences supercomputer facility to…

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Semantic Grid Innovations for Satellites and Insurance Sectors

These are just two of a long list of other possible applications in the business world. In the final project review, concluded in August 2007, experts from a…

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New European Concept for Secure, Resilient Messaging

Compared with the traditional messaging system, which is vulnerable in failure situations, the new self- healing, resilient messaging platform is markedly more…

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