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Biometric IDs for African penguins?

University of Bristol researchers have developed a non-intrusive visual surveillance system for wildlife habitats. They've used their system to monitor the behavior of 20,000 African penguins on Robben Island in South Africa. By definition, conventional tagging techniques can only monitor animals which have been tagged. On the contrary, the 'Penguin...

Tags: Chest, Monitor, Researcher, Camera, Species, African, Image-recognition System, Monitors & Displays, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-28

Neil Young gives his name to a spider

Canadian rocker Neil Young made headlines this week for appearing at the JavaOne conference and for releasing his musical archive on Blu-ray discs. But he was also honored by a East Carolina University ECU professor of biology, who named a newly discovered trapdoor spider Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi after the legendary rock...

Tags: East Carolina University, Species, Myrmekiaphila, M., Neotype, Blu-Ray, Investment, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Finance, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-09

A 100-million-year dragon killer

Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...

Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Tracking zebras... and consumers

Wireless networks have been used before to track animals, such as elephants, koalas, and even pigeons. Now, U.S. researchers are using social networking software to track zebras. They hope to discover how animals interact -- especially when lions are near a herd. They also think their...

Tags: Social Networking, Animal, Researcher, Network, Herd, Analysis, Species, Rubenstein, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Bigger isn't better -- for carnivores

Imagine that youre a beaver: you might find enough small prey to easily survive. Now, imagine that youre a polar bear weighing half a ton, and things should become more difficult: youll need to catch bigger preys. In Why are lions not as big as elephants?, a short press release...

Tags: Carnivore, prey, species

Blog posts 2007-01-16

Are butterflies spying at each other?

An international team of researchers has decided to discover why some unrelated species of butterflies living in South America had similar wing patterns. And according to PLos Biology, they used genetics and genomics tools to find how butterflies got their spots. Their simple answer is that a 'supergene' controls wing...

Tags: species

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Is agricultural biotechnology safe?

Many of us are concerned by the possible risks of agricultural biotechnology. For example, when you grow transgenic crops, can their modified genes alter wild varieties of similar wild plants? The latest issue of the California Agriculture magazine carries several articles focusing on transgenic crops, fish and animals. And some...

Tags: crop, species, genetically engineered

Blog posts 2006-07-31

Successful merger of butterfly species

Researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute STRI have recreated a real butterfly in the lab by crossing two other species of butterflies. This phenomenon, which is quite rare, is known as hybrid speciation. What is more surprising is that the hybrid butterfly has been created in just three generations...

Tags: species

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Additional Resources

New telescopes embedded in glasses lens

Small bioptic telescopes mounted on glasses to help people with visual impairments have been in existence for about 60 years and are allowed for use in driving by 39 states in the U.S. Most of them were either too heavy or too ugly to be widely used. Now, a Harvard...

Tags: Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-24

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Ultra-light micro air vehicles

Dutch engineers have built the third generation of the DelFly autonomous air vehicle. The DelFly Micro made its first public flight earlier today in Delft. This micro air vehicle weighs only 3 grams and has a wingspan of 10 centimeters. This very small remote-controlled aircraft carries a 0.4 gram camera....

Tags: Gram, Photograph, Centimeter, Micro, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-23

News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-07-23

First paper-based transistors

Portuguese researchers have created the first paper-based transistors. To be more precise, they've made the first field effect transistors FET with a paper interstrate layer. According to the research team, these new transistors offer the same level of performance as 'state-of-the-art oxide based thin film transistors TFTs produced on glass...

Tags: Team, Transistor, TFT, Semiconductors, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Saving money with solar tech

Saving money with solar techSaving money through natural sourceWe all know that green energy is the future of all earthlings.Scientist are doing a lot of inventions to generate energy from natural resource, the prices are exhorbitantly high hence a comman man like me is not able to afford / use...

Tags: SAVING MONEY, Govt

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Toward the end of the dentist drill?

If you're as afraid as I am when you enter your dentist's office, I have some excellent news. The London-based Society of Chemical Industry reports that UK researchers have developed a new technology that spots tooth decay almost as soon as it's begun. This new technology is based on Raman...

Tags: Technique, Tooth, Researcher, Dentist, Raman, Festy, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-21

News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft

Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Towards low-cost LED lighting

You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...

Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Looking at single atoms of hydrogen

As you probably know, graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms packed in a dense two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. And it recently became very popular recently as a basis for ultra-fast transistors. Now, according to Science News, U.S. researchers are using graphene to image individual hydrogen atoms via a standard...

Tags: Atom, Researcher, Hydrogen, Carbon, Here, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-19