Hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the second Nanosoccer tournament is currently underway at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. This year, only three teams are competing in the 2008 U.S. "RoboCup Open", in which miniature
Club-shaped fingers can be a warning sign for serious lung and heart conditions, but the cause of the disorder has remained a mystery for more than 2400 years. Now, researchers may have taken a step toward solving the puzzle by
A drug used to treat epilepsy could also ease cravings in alcoholics, say researchers who have investigated the effect in rats. The drug, called gabapentin, is approved for the treatment of epileptic seizures and for some conditions that cause chronic
Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL, one of the two Ecoles Polytechniques Federales in Switzerland, have developed a grasshopper-inspired jumping robot. The team unveiled the new robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, which
For people looking for an oceanfront property, there are really good deals along the Mustang Island Texas. In that lovely area, it is not that difficult to find a good waterfront property for sale. The only question is whether any
Jegede Ademola Oluborode looks at the Protocol on the Rights of Women in relation to medical or scientific experiments and argues that ethical and scientific standards are lowered when it comes to African women and informed consent may not be
There are two new slide presentations on our web site which have been synchronised with voice-overs and subtitles: 1) Residuals - an Introduction, and 2) Measuring Dependency. Go to our video presentations page for more details about these and other
The Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) announced their scholar athletes for the 2008 season Wednesday. Junior Heather Lynch of Santa Clara women's crew was named to that list. Lynch posted a 3.84 grade point average for the fall term and
Our friends at Mother Jones magazine want to know what you, Ypulse readers, think about the state of campus activism. They've already discovered some interesting tidbits so far like: - Two thirds of respondents believe that buying organic is activism.-
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Is microwave radiation the nondestructive imaging technology of the future? Microwaves with frequencies from a few hundred gigahertz (GHz) up to slightly over 1 terahertz (THz), penetrate just a short distance into surfaces without the ionizing damage caused by X-rays.
The contentious debate about why insects evolved to put the interests of the colony over the individual has been reignited by new research from the University of Leeds, showing that they do so to increase the chances that their genes
As Indiana Jones' fourth adventure hits to the big screen, an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists, museum specialists, ethicists and lawyers is pondering these ethical and legal issues. Their focus on cultural heritage has a particular emphasis on the archaeological
The first immigrants in Greenland were not Indians from the North American continent or Canadian Inuit as previously suggested. And it is not just a question of revising the Greenlandic immigration history. The discovery is the world's first successful attempt
The ability to map numbers onto a line, a foundation of all mathematics, is universal, says a study published in Science, but the form of this universal mapping is not linear but logarithmic. The findings illuminate both the nature and
Published:May 29, 2008Author:Arthur SegelDate: May 5-7, 2008Faculty Chair: Arthur SegelFaculty Summary Report:Colloquium: Global Change in the Built EnvironmentWhat were the overall goals of the colloquium?The goals of the colloquium were to celebrate Harvard Business School's 100 years and its significant
Professor Emeitus David Hooson - a scholar of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, national identities, and the history of geographic ideas - died May 16 while swiming at Shell Beach on Tomales Bay.
A 25-member Cal team is gearing up for the 2008 AIDS/LifeCycle, which kicks off Sunday, June 1 in San Francisco. Students and staff on the team will send updates, in an online journal, as they pedal their way to Los
