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In biology, a protein's shape is key to understanding how it causes disease or toxicity. Researchers who use X-rays to takes snapshots of proteins need a…
Whether a museum is capable of conveying a topic successfully also depends on how the visitors feel in the museum rooms. An important but to date less…
Stingrays swim through water with such ease that researchers from the University at Buffalo and Harvard University are studying how their movements could be…
That is one of the reasons Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studies snails. Snails can move in…
To survive, animals must explore their world to find the necessities of life. It's a complex task, requiring them to form them a mental map of their…
Computers, machines and even smart phones can process sounds and audio signals with apparent ease, but they all require significant computing power. Researchers from the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore have proposed a way to improve computer audio processing by applying lessons inspired from the way the brain processes sounds….