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Sunday, November 18, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

Basketball teams offer insights into building strategic networks

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:11 PM PST

What started out as a project to teach undergraduate students about network analysis, turned into an in-depth study of whether it was possible to analyze a National Basketball Association basketball team's strategic interactions as a network.Researchers discovered it is possible to quantify both a team's cohesion and communication structure.

Level up: Study reveals keys to gamer loyalty

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:09 PM PST

Online role-playing game developers can get ahead of the competition by giving gamers more opportunities to get social, collaborate and take control of their online personas, according to a new study.

Important progress for spintronics: Spin amplifier works at room temperature

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:46 AM PST

A fundamental cornerstone for spintronics that has been missing up until now has been constructed by a team of physicists. A newly developed spin amplifier can be used at room temperature.

Recipe for oxide interface perfection opens path to novel materials

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:43 AM PST

By tweaking the formula for growing oxide thin films, researchers have achieved virtual perfection at the interface of two insulator materials.

Measuring 'the cloud: 'Performance could be better

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 05:56 AM PST

Storing information "in the Cloud" is rapidly gaining in popularity. Yet just how do these services really work? Researchers have completed the first comprehensive analysis of Dropbox, a popular service that already has 100 million users. One shortcoming of this service is that performance is greatly dependent on the physical distance to the Dropbox servers.

Largest resolution immersive visualization facility

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 05:52 AM PST

A new Reality Deck, a 416 screen super-high resolution virtual reality four-walled surround-view theater, is the largest resolution immersive display ever built driven by a graphic supercomputer. Its purpose and primary design principle is to enable scientists, engineers and physicians to tackle modern-age problems that require the visualization of vast amounts of data.

What's behind the success of the soccer 'knuckleball'

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 05:52 AM PST

What makes soccer star Christiano Ronaldo's "knuckleball" shot so unpredictable and difficult to stop?

Visualizing floating cereal patterns to understand nanotechnology processes

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 05:51 AM PST

Small floating objects change the dynamics of the surface they are on. This is an effect every serious student of breakfast has seen as rafts of floating cereal o's arrange and rearrange themselves into patterns on the milk. Now scientists have suggested that this process may offer insight into nanoscale engineering processes.

Creating a coating of water-repellent microscopic particles to keep ice off airplanes

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 05:51 AM PST

To help planes fly safely through cold, wet, and icy conditions, a team of Japanese scientists has developed a new super water-repellent surface that can prevent ice from forming in these harsh atmospheric conditions. Unlike current inflight anti-icing techniques, the researchers envision applying this new anti-icing method to an entire aircraft like a coat of paint.
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