September 4, 2007 – 12:34 am
From Smithsonian by Kennedy Warne.
They fly 50 miles per hour. Go years without touching land. Predict the weather. Mate for life. And they’re among the world’s most endangered birds. Can albatrosses be saved?
Scofield, of New Zealand’s Canterbury Museum and co-author of Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World, has been studying albatrosses for more than [...]
August 11, 2007 – 1:19 am
From Physorg.com.
It’s an odd combination of Navier-Stokes equations and NASCAR driving. Computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed software that is incorporated in new technology allowing television audiences to instantaneously see how air flows around speeding cars.
The algorithm Model Reduction for Real-time Fluids, first presented at a SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference last August, [...]
From Telegraph
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The University of St Andrews team has created an ‘incredible levitation effects’ by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together. They have worked out a way of reversing this pheneomenon, known as the Casimir force, so that it repels instead of attracts.
Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines [...]
From Popular Science.
As science has become increasingly complex and interconnected, even the smallest a-ha instance demands that researchers spend the bulk of their time on grunt work—combing through relevant journal articles that are poorly annotated, begging colleagues for necessary materials (a biologist may need specific cell lines, for instance), and tracking down data sets. As [...]
From IEEE Spectrum.
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The base station’s activities are governed by a base station controller, a special-purpose computer within the station that allocates radio channels and helps coordinate handovers between the transceivers under its control.
This controller in turn communicates with a mobile switching center that takes phone calls and connects them to call recipients within the same [...]
From Discovery News.
In an experiment taking place along the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts, two otherwise unrelated groups of researchers are working together: computer engineers who are testing a new wireless communication network (TurtleNet), and biologists who are tracking snapping turtles — a species they worry may be headed for decline as land development shrinks [...]