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Astronomers Eager to Add to Sky in Google Earth

September 8, 2007 – 11:56 pm

From Physorg.com.
Since Sky in Google Earth debuted two weeks ago to let the public explore the heavens from their computers, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have jumped in to populate Google’s sky with the most recently discovered heavenly objects.
This week, Google posted on its Web site another layer of information users can add to [...]

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Computers Expose The Physics of NASCAR

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, [...]

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