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Breakthrough in Spintronics: The Future of Smart Electronics

Researchers have made an important advance in the emerging field of 'spintronics' that may one day usher in a new generation of smaller, smarter, faster…

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University of Southampton Launches Pervasive Systems Centre

The technology is to be developed by the University of Southampton's new Pervasive Systems Centre which is being launched this month.The Centre, co-directed by…

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MUSCLE Network Showcases Innovative Prototypes at CeBIT

As part of its dissemination activities, the NoE will present the multimedia expertise of its different teams through highly visual demonstrations and videos. Some live demos will for instance allow visitors to play around with Maps of Music using PlaySOM, listening to them, exploring musical landscapes, and even creating maps of their own. They will also feature PocketSOMPlayer for mobile devices (TU-Wien), 3D-virtual Worlds presenting SOMs (EC3) and Video-Clip Copy Detection (INRIA)….

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Genedata Launches ToxPedia for Enhanced Systems Toxicology

To gain the greatest benefit from systems toxicology, scientists need to integrate toxicogenomic data with conventional toxicological end points. This…

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New Computer Key Unlocks Insights Into Heritable Disorders

The results – which are published in the current issue of Nature Biotechnology – show that genes important for the development of diseases like Alzheimer’s…

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W3C Relaunches HTML Activity for Enhanced Web Development

Recognizing the importance of an open forum for the development of the predominant Web content technology, W3C today invites browser vendors, application…

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Innovative Classroom Design Engages Autistic Children in Schools

Experts from Coventry University have designed the first low cost education and activity area for children with autism that can be used in mainstream schools….

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A clearer view on biology

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has developed a new computational tool that makes images obtained with cutting-edge microscopes even sharper….

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Exploring the Cell’s Cytoskeleton: Structure and Function

Like our body every cell has a skeleton that provides it with a shape, confers rigidity and protects its fragile inner workings. The cytoskeleton is built of…

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Atomic Clock Signals: Fiber-Optics Could Enhance Stability

But today's best atomic clocks are so accurate—neither gaining nor losing one second in as long as 400 million years—that more stable methods are needed. The…

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GIOVE-A Navigation Signal Now Accessible to Users

Following the launch of GIOVE-A on 28 December 2005 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the transmission of the first Galileo signals from medium Earth orbit on…

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New Research Lowers Language Barriers with SMART Project

The Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval and Translation (SMART) project funded by the European Union (EU) and led by Xerox’s European Research…

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Genedata Joins BaSysBio to Enhance Gene Regulation Research

BaSysBio (Bacillus Systems Biology) will study the global regulation of gene transcription in the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. This bacterium has…

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EGEE Joins Gridwise: Insights from Krakow Workshop

The announcement coincides with GridwiseTech Business Workshop, taking place in Krakow, Poland on 22-23 February 2007, which brings together cross-segment Grid…

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Dare to Be Digital 2007: Enter Abertay’s Top Contest

The contest, hosted by Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, is back for 2007 stronger than ever and now firmly established as the leading international…

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Discover SuperBot’s Progress Through Vivid Online Videos

Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute recently reported to NASA significant progress in developing “SuperBot,”…

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