ScienceDaily: Information Technology News

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• Engineers use 3-D gaming gear to give eye-opening look at cells in action
• Untangling how cables coil
• Healthy knowledge management and social networking
• Social networks can strengthen knowledge-sharing
• Global database: Cattle genome cracked in detail
• Software for Google glass that provides captions for hard-of-hearing users

Engineers use 3-D gaming gear to give eye-opening look at cells in action Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:43 PM PDT For hundreds of years biologists have studied cells through the lens of a microscope. With a little help from a team of engineers, these scientists could soon be donning 3-D glasses in a home-theater-like lab to take their own fantastic voyage into the petri dish.

Untangling how cables coil Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT Engineers together with computer scientists have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form when deployed onto a rigid surface. The research combined laboratory experiments with custom-designed cables, computer-graphics technology used to animate hair in movies, and theoretical analyses.

Healthy knowledge management and social networking Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT Social network analysis could improve knowledge sharing in the health-care sector, according to new research.

Social networks can strengthen knowledge-sharing Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:51 AM PDT Contrary to the notion that social networks are time-wasters, they could improve project management and the spread of specialized knowledge in the healthcare sector and possibly other large organizations, according to new research.

Global database: Cattle genome cracked in detail Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:22 AM PDT An international consortium of scientists has increased the detailed knowledge of the variation in the cattle genome by several orders of magnitude by creating a global database. The first generation of the new data resource, which will be open access, forms an essential tool for scientists working with cattle genetics and livestock history.

Software for Google glass that provides captions for hard-of-hearing users Posted: 02 Oct 2014 01:26 PM PDT Speech-to-text software for Google Glass has been created that helps hard-of-hearing users with everyday conversations. A hard-of-hearing person wears Glass while a second person speaks directly into a smartphone. The speech is converted to text, sent to Glass and displayed on its heads-up display.

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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

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• NASA's SDO watches giant filament on the sun
• Engineers use 3-D gaming gear to give eye-opening look at cells in action
• Continuous fabrication system for highly aligned polymer films provides method for tuning mechanical and thermal properties in bulk polymers
• Breakthrough technique offers prospect of silicon detectors for telecommunications
• Social networks can strengthen knowledge-sharing
• Nanotechnology: Fullerene spheres can be used to slide in the nanoworld
• In a bad mood? Head to Facebook and find someone worse off

NASA's SDO watches giant filament on the sun Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:43 PM PDT A snaking, extended filament of solar material currently lies on the front of the sun -- some 1 million miles across from end to end. Filaments are clouds of solar material suspended above the sun by powerful magnetic forces. Though notoriously unstable, filaments can last for days or even weeks.

Engineers use 3-D gaming gear to give eye-opening look at cells in action Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:43 PM PDT For hundreds of years biologists have studied cells through the lens of a microscope. With a little help from a team of engineers, these scientists could soon be donning 3-D glasses in a home-theater-like lab to take their own fantastic voyage into the petri dish.

Continuous fabrication system for highly aligned polymer films provides method for tuning mechanical and thermal properties in bulk polymers Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:54 AM PDT Novel and scalable continuous fabrication process combining Couette flow extrusion and macroscopic plastic deformation results in ability to increase mechanical, thermal, and crystalline properties in bulk polymer films.

Breakthrough technique offers prospect of silicon detectors for telecommunications Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:53 AM PDT Researchers have demonstrated a breakthrough technique that offers the first possibility of silicon detectors for telecommunications. For decades, silicon has been the foundation of the microelectronics revolution and, owing to its excellent optical properties in the near- and mid-infrared range, is now promising to have a similar impact on photonics.

Social networks can strengthen knowledge-sharing Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:51 AM PDT Contrary to the notion that social networks are time-wasters, they could improve project management and the spread of specialized knowledge in the healthcare sector and possibly other large organizations, according to new research.

Nanotechnology: Fullerene spheres can be used to slide in the nanoworld Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:21 AM PDT "Nano–machines" (around one billionth of a meter in size) of the future will need tiny devices to reduce friction and make movement possible. The C60 molecule, also known as fullerene or buckyball, seemed to many an excellent candidate for nano-bearings. Unfortunately, the results so far have been conflicting, calling for further studies, like the one just carried out by a theoretical team. Through a series of computer simulations the scientists uncovered the reason for the experimental discrepancies and shed light on the true potential of this material.

In a bad mood? Head to Facebook and find someone worse off Posted: 02 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT When people are in a bad mood, they are more likely to actively search social networking sites like Facebook to find friends who are doing even worse than they are, a new study suggests. "One of the great appeals of social network sites is that they allow people to manage their moods by choosing who they want to compare themselves to," the authors said.

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ScienceDaily: Engineering and Construction News

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• Untangling how cables coil
• Crumpled graphene could power future stretchable electronics
• Continuous fabrication system for highly aligned polymer films provides method for tuning mechanical and thermal properties in bulk polymers
• Breakthrough technique offers prospect of silicon detectors for telecommunications

Untangling how cables coil Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT Engineers together with computer scientists have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form when deployed onto a rigid surface. The research combined laboratory experiments with custom-designed cables, computer-graphics technology used to animate hair in movies, and theoretical analyses.

Crumpled graphene could power future stretchable electronics Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT When someone crumples a sheet of paper, that usually means it's about to be thrown away. But researchers have now found that crumpling a piece of graphene "paper" -- a material formed by bonding together layers of the two-dimensional form of carbon -- can actually yield new properties that could be useful for creating extremely stretchable supercapacitors to store energy for flexible electronic devices.

Continuous fabrication system for highly aligned polymer films provides method for tuning mechanical and thermal properties in bulk polymers Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:54 AM PDT Novel and scalable continuous fabrication process combining Couette flow extrusion and macroscopic plastic deformation results in ability to increase mechanical, thermal, and crystalline properties in bulk polymer films.

Breakthrough technique offers prospect of silicon detectors for telecommunications Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:53 AM PDT Researchers have demonstrated a breakthrough technique that offers the first possibility of silicon detectors for telecommunications. For decades, silicon has been the foundation of the microelectronics revolution and, owing to its excellent optical properties in the near- and mid-infrared range, is now promising to have a similar impact on photonics.

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In a bad mood? Head to Facebook and find someone worse off Posted: 02 Oct 2014 09:30 AM PDT When people are in a bad mood, they are more likely to actively search social networking sites like Facebook to find friends who are doing even worse than they are, a new study suggests. "One of the great appeals of social network sites is that they allow people to manage their moods by choosing who they want to compare themselves to," the authors said.

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