Archive for 'Engineering'
Going Dutch in the Big Easy
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Michael Mullaney.
Just back from New Orleans, civil engineering professor and world-leading geotechnics expert Tarek Abdoun spoke with the NPR/BBC radio program The World last week about the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. He compared the levees of New Orleans with those of the Netherlands, and detailed how U.S. officials sought advice and learned from the Dutch [...]
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Amateur Danish Rocket Builders Plan to Send a Human to Space
Posted on 24. Aug, 2010 by Andrew Moseman.
The fourth nation to put a person in space, after Russia/USSR, the United States, and China, could be… Denmark? Denmark indeed. Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen, the leaders of Copenhagen Suborbitals, plan to fire a test flight of their HEAT-1X rocket from the European nation early next week. This upcoming flight will be an unmanned test [...]
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Dennis Shasha: Nature can improve our computers
Posted on 21. Aug, 2010 by Caspar Llewellyn Smith.
The professor of computer science believes the next great leap in computing will be programming machines to behave in almost evolutionary waysRobots on Mars that can fix themselves and computers built from DNA: not science fiction but the work of scien...
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My bright idea: Peter Miller on ants
Posted on 14. Aug, 2010 by Alok Jha.
The author of Smart Swarm believes studying social creatures can give us a better understanding of our own complex systemsGroups always tend to work better than individuals in nature. Ant colonies, beehives, termite mounts, flocks of birds, schools of ...
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Saudi Arabia Unveils World’s Biggest Clock in Mecca, Hopes to Replace Greenwich with ‘Mecca Time’
Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by Clay Dillow.
At PopSci we're comfortable with the concept of time travel, but this story is perhaps a bit more than we can wrap our heads around. The Saudi Arabian city of Mecca is building the biggest clock in the world -- a massive 1,983-foot tower sporting four...
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Top 10 science papers
- Evolutionary hidden information detection by granulation-based fitness approximation • ArticleApplied Soft Computing, Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 719-729 | Davarynejad, M.; Ahn, C.W.; Vrancken, J.; van den Berg, J.; Coello Coello, C.A. […]
- The Hallmarks of Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 100, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 57-70 | Hanahan, D.; Weinberg, R.A. […]
- Transcriptome-wide Identification of RNA-Binding Protein and MicroRNA Target Sites by PAR-CLIP • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 129-141 | Hafner, M.; Landthaler, M.; Burger, L.; Khorshid, M.; Hausser, J.; Berninger, P.; Rothballer, A.; Ascano, M.; Jungkamp, A.C.; Munschauer, M.; Ulrich, A.; Wardle, G.S.; Dewell, S.; Zavolan, M.; Tuschl, T. […]
- A Chromatin-Mediated Reversible Drug-Tolerant State in Cancer Cell Subpopulations • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 69-80 | Sharma, S.V.; Lee, D.Y.; Li, B.; Quinlan, M.P.; Takahashi, F.; Maheswaran, S.; McDermott, U.; Azizian, N.; Zou, L.; Fischbach, M.A.; Wong, K.K.; Brandstetter, K.; Wittner, B.; Ramaswamy, S.; Classon, M.; Settleman, J. […]
- Immunity, Inflammation, and Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 883-899 | Grivennikov, S.I.; Greten, F.R.; Karin, M. […]
- Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors • ArticleCell, Volume 126, Issue 4, August 2006, Pages 663-676 | Takahashi, K.; Yamanaka, S. […]
- The Inflammasomes • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 821-832 | Schroder, K.; Tschopp, J. […]
- Mitochondria Supply Membranes for Autophagosome Biogenesis during Starvation • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 656-667 | Hailey, D.W.; Rambold, A.S.; Satpute-Krishnan, P.; Mitra, K.; Sougrat, R.; Kim, P.K.; Lippincott-Schwartz, J. […]
- Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 805-820 | Takeuchi, O.; Akira, S. […]
- Reconstitution of the RIG-I Pathway Reveals a Signaling Role of Unanchored Polyubiquitin Chains in Innate Immunity • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 315-330 | Zeng, W.; Sun, L.; Jiang, X.; Chen, X.; Hou, F.; Adhikari, A.; Xu, M.; Chen, Z.J. […]
