Posts Tagged ‘computers’
Anxiety sufferers: Boot up the therapist
BROWN U. (US) — A potential anxiety therapy delivered entirely on a computer may be almost as effective as in-person therapy or drugs for treating social anxiety disorder. Continue…
Friday, September 16, 2011 13:07 - 1 Comment
Society & Culture - Jun 24, 2011 16:23 - 4 Comments
Computers closing China’s education gap
STANFORD (US) — Migrant children in China are keeping up with their urban peers through an innovative computer-assisted learning program designed to boost scores and bridge the country’s digital divide. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 7, 2010 14:40 - 1 Comment
Secure computing from the code up
CORNELL (US) — A new computer platform, dubbed “Fabric,” builds security into computer systems from the start, by incorporating security in the language used to write the programs. (more…)
Science & Technology - Aug 18, 2010 13:50 - 2 Comments
How to find a pulsar with your home PC
CORNELL (US)—Three people on two continents have discovered a lone pulsar approximately 17,000 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. And they did it using their home computers. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 20, 2010 16:10 - 1 Comment
Computer predicts bacteria’s next move
DUKE (US)—Researchers are using computers to identify how one strain of dangerous bacteria might mutate in the same way a champion chess player tries to anticipate an opponent’s strategies. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 6, 2010 10:35 - 0 Comments
First 3-D image of sub-nano pores
CORNELL (US)—In the quest for faster and cheaper computers, scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at sub-nanometer scales for the first time. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jun 28, 2010 15:16 - 4 Comments
Kids + home computers = lower test scores?
DUKE (US)—Students in grades five through eight, particularly those from disadvantaged families, tend to post lower scores once computers and high-speed Internet service arrive in their home, a new study suggests. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 25, 2010 10:33 - 2 Comments
Did politics outweigh mammography science?
UC DAVIS (US)—Use of a largely unproven mammography screening device has increased dramatically since Medicare began covering the cost a decade ago, according to a new study. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 8, 2010 16:44 - 2 Comments
Is your computer calling the shots?
U. LEEDS (UK)—People who use computers to help them make good decisions are often unwittingly being led by technology into making bad ones. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 2, 2010 20:20 - 0 Comments
Bossy brain goes gaga over computer
U. WASHINGTON (US)—A rare peek at a human brain hooked up to a computer shows that the two can adapt to each other quickly—and possibly to the brain’s benefit. (more…)
Science & Technology - Nov 11, 2009 15:39 - 0 Comments
Virtual crashes sound like the real thing
CORNELL (US)—When you kick over a garbage can, it doesn’t make a pure, musical tone. That’s why the sound is so hard to synthesize. Now computer scientists have developed a practical method to generate the crashing and rumbling sounds of objects made up of thin “harmonic shells.” (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 24, 2009 4:00 - 1 Comment
Rome digitally rebuilt in hours
U. WASHINGTON (US)—Using a new computer algorithm, researchers were able to take 150,000 tourist photos tagged “Roma” or “Rome” downloaded from the photo sharing Web site Flickr and combine them into a single 3-D digital model in about 21 hours. (more…)
Science & Technology - Sep 10, 2009 12:37 - 0 Comments
Software speeds hunt for cancer triggers
Rachel Karchin, right, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and doctoral student Hannah Carter led a Johns Hopkins team that developed software to narrow the search for mutations linked to cancer. (Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins)
Science & Technology - Sep 2, 2009 14:59 - 0 Comments
Honey, who shrunk the laser light?
A bright point of light from a single plasmon laser emanates from the optical setup used by UC Berkeley researchers. (Courtesy: Xiang Zhang Lab/UC Berkeley)
Science & Technology - Apr 22, 2009 15:57 - 2 Comments
Teaching computers to think like Isaac Newton
CORNELL (US)—If only Isaac Newton could have gotten his hands on a supercomputer and a new algorithm developed by Cornell University researchers. He could have skipped the apples altogether. The new method helps computers find regularities in the natural world that represent natural laws. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 18, 2009 10:34 - 0 Comments
‘Liquid’ metals could pave way for nano-scale chips
YALE (US)—A novel type of metal that is stronger and more durable than silicon or steel could prove to be the ideal material for manufacturing nano-devices, like computer chips and biomedical sensors. “Amorphous metals” known as bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) seem solid but are more like a very slow-flowing liquid that has no structure beyond the atomic level—making them ideal for molding fine details.
Society & Culture - Mar 16, 2009 15:49 - 0 Comments
Who’s controlling your corner of the Internet?
PRINCETON (US)—It’s a question most of us have asked, with growing annoyance, while we wait for a Web page to load: Why is my Internet connection so slow today?
