Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Breakthrough for mobile television


ScienceDaily (2010-02-14) -- Long Term Evolution, a new mobile telecommunications standard, is poised to revolutionize mobile internet. High transmission rates will soon be possible on mobile devices. For this purpose, researchers in Germany developed the cross-layer design SVC over LTE -- a coding method that offers HD films in real-time in the appropriate format for cell phones or netbooks.

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Social networking sites could solve many communication problems when disaster strikes


ScienceDaily (2010-02-10) -- Online social networking sites could solve many problems plaguing information dissemination and communications when disaster strikes, according to a new report.

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Reaching for the stars to create music of the universe


ScienceDaily (2010-02-03) -- While a supernova can be seen, it can't be heard, as sound waves cannot travel through space. But what if the light waves emitted by the exploding star and other cosmological phenomena could be translated into sound? That's the idea behind a "Rhythms of the Universe," a musical project to "sonify" the universe by Grateful Dead percussionist and Grammy award-winning artist Mickey Hart that caught the attention of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Design vs. Dyslexia: Innovation promises new hope for children with dyslexia


ScienceDaily (2010-01-27) -- Researchers are designing a 21st century electronic toolkit to speed learning for children with dyslexia.

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