A team of American astronomers announced today (Tuesday, Nov. 6) the discovery of a record-breaking fifth planet around the nearby star 55 Cancri, making it…
The system is based on Princeton University’s WordNet database. WordNet is a lexical database developed by linguists at Princeton’s Cognitive Science…
It’s the start of the skiing season: Attracted by bright sunshine and fresh snow, winter sports enthusiasts flock to the snow-covered slopes. But for some, the…
The EPOXI mission is actually two new missions in one. During the first six months of the journey to Hartley 2, the Extrasolar Planet Observations and…
The results of the international study, published in the journal Nature today, shows that the animals’ behaviour seems to have evolved as a general ‘rule’ to…
A consortium of research scientists, including Stanford physicist Blas Cabrera, anticipated the detection of a predicted-but-undiscovered dark particle known…
EGEE-III aims to expand and optimise the Grid infrastructure, which is currently used over 150,000 times per day by users working together on scientific…
European researchers working in the MOBVIS project have successfully developed a system that can attach hyperlinks to real-world urban features. Users simply…
Such “chemical fingerprinting” is a key technique in the search for habitable planets around other stars. As such, the result represents a milestone in the…
Using an ephemeral supercomputer made up of computers from across the world, the mpiBLAST computational tool used by the researchers took only 12 hours instead…
Researchers at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research have developed a new mathematical model to describe how the human brain visually identifies objects….
“There’s a famous Einstein quote: ‘God does not play dice.’ Unfortunately, we all have to do so every day,” said Hong, assistant professor in IU’s School of…
The STN partners, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in the U.S. and FIZ Karlsruhe in Germany, are pleased to announce that a completely new STN will be phased…
Inhibitors are not available to date. In collaboration with researchers of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, scientists at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut have now…
“For decades, astronomers have harnessed the power of Hubble to unravel the mysteries of the universe,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s…
The Heidelberg IT enterprise EML European Media Laboratory will be represented at this year’s CallCenterWorld in Berlin (28 February to 1 March 2012) with a…
“Although interactions between a quantum bit (‘qubit’) and its environment tend to corrupt the information it stores, it is possible to dynamically control…
With China having grown into one of the world’s major patenting countries, it becomes extremely important for all companies involved in R&D to keep an eye on…
Many discoveries are made by chance, but it is also possible to help it along: The chance of finding something interesting increases when the number of…
Visitors to ACHEMA, the international exhibition and convention for chemical technology, environmental protection and biotechnology in Frankfurt, can…
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