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10 Feb

Girls' interest in computing science piqued by making video games

For high-school girls the fun is in making video games, not just playing them, according to a new study. Their study shows that if you want to get more females interested in computing science, you have to rewrite the program, so to speak.

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11 Feb

Robot therapy can improve arm, shoulder mobility after stroke

Robotic-assisted rehabilitation therapy, combined with standard rehabilitation, can improve upper extremity mobility in stroke patients with paralysis on one side. Patients with severe paralysis were more likely to be aided by robotic therapy.

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11 Feb

Web experts ask scientists to use the Web to improve understanding, sharing of their data in science

Experts are calling for scientists to take a few tips from the users of the World Wide Web when presenting their data to the public and other scientists.

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11 Feb

Exercise helps overweight children think better, do better in math

Regular exercise improves the ability of overweight, previously inactive children to think, plan and even do math, researchers report. They hope the findings in 171 overweight 7- to 11-year-olds -- all sedentary when the study started - gives educators the evidence they need to ensure that regular, vigorous physical activity is a part of every school day.

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12 Feb

Scientists hope to cut years off development time of new antibiotics

Eliminating tens of thousands of manual lab experiments, researchers are working toward a method to cut the development time of new antibiotics. A computerized modeling system they're developing will speed up the often decade-long process. Pharmacy professors and engineering professors are focusing on dosing regimens to reveal which ones are most likely to be effective in combating infection and which are not worth pursuing.

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14 Feb

Guitar heroes: When the magic transfers from rock stars to instruments

Budding guitarists seek the magical powers of rock hero instruments, according to a new study.

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14 Feb

3-D movies on your cell phone

Researchers have combined the new mobile radio standard LTE-Advanced with a video coding technique. The technology promises to put 3-D movies on your cell phone.

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15 Feb

Next-generation electronic devices: Conduction, surface states in topological insulator nanoribbons controlled

In recent years, topological insulators have become one of the hottest topics in physics. These new materials act as both insulators and conductors, with their interior preventing the flow of electrical currents while their edges or surfaces allow the movement of a charge. Perhaps most importantly, the surfaces of topological insulators enable the transport of spin-polarized electrons while preventing the "scattering" typically associated with power consumption, in which electrons deviate from their trajectory, resulting in dissipation. Because of such characteristics, these materials hold great potential for use in future transistors, memory devices and magnetic sensors that are highly energy efficient and require less power.

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15 Feb

'Mashup' technologies: Better contact with public authorities

Mashup technologies and mobile applications will help to close the communication gap between government bodies and the general public. They can be used, for example, to send messages to local authorities. Research scientists in Germany have developed individual solutions to facilitate rapid contact with government institutions.

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15 Feb

Jewel-toned organic phosphorescent crystals: A new class of light-emitting material

Pure organic compounds that glow in jewel tones could potentially lead to cheaper, more efficient and flexible display screens, among other applications.

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10 Feb

Flaws in popular research method exposed

Influential studies into subjects such as the safety and effectiveness of medicines or class size in schools could be called into question by a new report into ways of identifying research bias.

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11 Feb

Cloud computing for administration

The emerging field of cloud computing is an interesting one, and not just for businesses. The field of public administration benefits from the technology as well. Researchers are developing solutions to create such systems efficiently and to implement security concepts.

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11 Feb

How much information is there in the world?

Think you're overloaded with information? Not even close. A new study calculates how much information humankind can handle.

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11 Feb

Metaknowledge: Powerful new ways to electronically mine research

The Internet has become not only a tool for disseminating knowledge through scientific publications, but it also has the potential to shape scientific research through expanding the field of metaknowledge -- the study of knowledge itself. The new possibilities for metaknowledge include developing a better understanding of science's social context and the biases that can affect research findings and choices of research topic.

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13 Feb

3-D digital dinosaur track download: A roadmap for saving at-risk natural history resources

Portable laser scanning technology allows researchers to tote a fossil discovery from field to lab in the form of digital data on a laptop. But standard formats to ensure data accessibility of these "digitypes" are needed, say paleontologists. They field-scanned a Texas dinosaur track, then back at the lab created an exact 3-D facsimile to scale.

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14 Feb

Year-end test scores significantly improved in schools using Web-based tutor

Year-end test scores of Massachusetts middle school students whose teachers used a Web-based tutoring platform called ASSISTments as a central part of their mathematics instruction were significantly better than those of students whose teachers did not use the platform, according to a recent study.

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14 Feb

Fleeting fluctuations in superconductivity disappear close to transition temperature

As part of an ongoing effort to uncover details of how high-temperature superconductors carry electrical current with no resistance, scientists have measured fluctuations in superconductivity that disappear 10-15 Kelvin (K) above the transition temperature. The findings suggest that the transition to the non-superconducting state is driven by a loss of coherence among electron pairs.

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15 Feb

Culling can't control deadly bat disease, mathematical model shows

Culling will not stop the spread of a deadly fungus that is threatening to wipe out hibernating bats in North America, according to a new mathematical model.

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15 Feb

Scientists develop control system to allow spacecraft to think for themselves

The world's first control system that will allow engineers to program satellites and spacecraft to think for themselves has been developed.

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15 Feb

Physicists isolate bound states in graphene-superconductor junctions

Researchers have documented the first observations of some unusual physics when two prominent electric materials are connected: superconductors and graphene. When sandwiched between superconductors, graphene can adopt superconducting capacity because paired electrons from the superconductor are translated to Andreev bound states (ABS) in the graphene. The researchers isolated and manipulated individual ABS by confining them to a graphene quantum dot, which could be used as a qubit for quantum computing.

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Girls' interest in computing science piqued by making video games

Robot therapy can improve arm, shoulder mobility after stroke

Web experts ask scientists to use the Web to improve understanding, sharing of their data in science

Exercise helps overweight children think better, do better in math

Scientists hope to cut years off development time of new antibiotics

Guitar heroes: When the magic transfers from rock stars to instruments

3-D movies on your cell phone

Next-generation electronic devices: Conduction, surface states in topological insulator nanoribbons controlled

'Mashup' technologies: Better contact with public authorities

Jewel-toned organic phosphorescent crystals: A new class of light-emitting material

Flaws in popular research method exposed

Cloud computing for administration

How much information is there in the world?

Metaknowledge: Powerful new ways to electronically mine research

3-D digital dinosaur track download: A roadmap for saving at-risk natural history resources

Year-end test scores significantly improved in schools using Web-based tutor

Fleeting fluctuations in superconductivity disappear close to transition temperature

Culling can't control deadly bat disease, mathematical model shows

Scientists develop control system to allow spacecraft to think for themselves

Physicists isolate bound states in graphene-superconductor junctions

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