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Archaeology May 6, 2014

Israeli says he has found King David's citadel

An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem, rekindling a longstanding debate about using the Bible as a field guide to identifying ancient ruins.

Software Apr 22, 2014

Carnegie Mellon system lets iPad users explore data with their fingers

Spreadsheets may have been the original killer app for personal computers, but data tables don't play to the strengths of multi-touch devices such as tablets. So researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a ...

Computer Sciences Apr 22, 2014

Computer-assisted accelerator design

Stephen Brooks uses his own custom software tool to fire electron beams into a virtual model of proposed accelerator designs for eRHIC. The goal: Keep the cost down and be sure the beams will circulate in this proposed next-generation ...

Energy & Green Tech Apr 21, 2014

Apple offering free recycling of all used products

Apple is offering free recycling of all its used products and vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centers with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and online services.

Energy & Green Tech Mar 11, 2014

NREL examines solar policy pathways for states

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has published a report that aligns solar policy and market success with state demographics. By organizing the 48 contiguous states into four peer groups ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 26, 2014

Understanding the fundamental metabolic workings of a cell in a changing environment

Fungal geneticist Scott Baker rifles through a stack of petri dishes housed in a small refrigerator at EMSL. He selects a plate dotted with white cauliflower-shaped colonies of fungus, punctuated by one brazen smudge that ...

Social Sciences Feb 7, 2014

A linguistic mystery yields clues in Russian

When it comes to numbers, Russian grammar has a bewildering thicket of rules. A singular noun such as "table" ("stol" in Russian), used as the subject of a sentence, takes a special "case form" called the nominative singular. ...

Engineering Feb 6, 2014

Goddard's storied tradition potentially expanded through 3-D manufacturing

For the past two years, the Internal Research and Development, or IRAD, program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has awarded funding to a small number of researchers who are investigating how the agency ...

Space Exploration Jan 30, 2014

Curiosity Mars rover checking possible smoother route

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº) —The team operating NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is considering a path across a small sand dune to reach a favorable route to science destinations.

Consumer & Gadgets Jan 9, 2014

Tech review: GPS gadgets let you track your kid, elderly loved one or car

We've all seen news alerts for missing senior citizens. Sometimes those have a happy outcome, and other times they don't.

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