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- Software Sustainability Institute Blog | Why is reproducibility important?
The second discussion session at the Effective Scientific Programming workshop in Newcastle, chaired by James Perry, focused on reproducible results and related issues. We discussed why reproducibility is important, what obstacles get in the way o ...
Feed Item - 8 July 2011
- Building Material Absorbs and Releases Heat
Zothecula writes "Researchers at the Ningpo, China campus of the University of Nottingham (UNNC) have created a new heat-regulating material that could be used to cut the heating and cooling costs of buildings. The non-deformed storage phase change mate ...
Feed Item - 3 August 2011
- Giant African Rat Kills With Poisonous Mohawk
thebchuckster writes "The African crested rat has been known to kill local dogs, but researchers have just figured out how. After eating the 'poison-arrow plant,' the over-sized rodent stores its poison-laced spit in special hollow hairs in its mohawk. ...
Feed Item - 3 August 2011
- InfoVis in Statistics Computing and Graphics Newletter
The Statistical Graphics blog brings us news of two great articles from Robert Kosara, Andrew Gelman, and Antony Unwin in the most recent Statistical Computing and Graphics Newsletter. First up in a great infovis article from Robert Kosara emphasiz ...
Feed Item - 25 July 2011
- NGS | How has it affected you?
As you are aware the NGS has gone under some changes since the beginning of the year. The most obvious to our users was the cap on cpu hours that was introduced on the 1st of April with every user being given 2000 free cpu hours per year. If a use ...
Feed Item - 30 June 2011
- First Observational Test of the "Multiverse"
An anonymous reader writes "The theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, and that multiple alternative universes exist inside their own bubbles – making up the 'multiverse' – is being tested observationally by UK physicists, who are search ...
Feed Item - 3 August 2011
- Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons
AaronW writes "According to a story at space.com, Earth may once have had two moons. The smaller moon, estimated to be 750 miles (1200km) wide and only 4% of the mass of the larger moon, crashed into the far side of the larger moon which caused the feat ...
Feed Item - 3 August 2011
- Biotech Company Forges Path to High Performance Healthcare
GNS Healthcare is one of those companies that couldn't have existed in the 20th century. It promotes itself as "a healthcare IT company that applies technology to optimize patient treatment." As such, GNS is at the forefront of a new era of drug develop ...
Feed Item - 5 July 2011
- CMS Clarifies Electronic Transmission
One of the more confusing items about Meaningful Stage 1 is what constitutes a test of electronic record exchange. The HIT Standards Committee did not specify transport standards, so there are no certification criteria to test the ability of an EHR to ...
Feed Item - 24 June 2011
- Use Your Car To Power Your House
itwbennett writes "Nissan has developed a system that allows a vehicle to supply electricity to power a house during a power outage or shortage. A prototype of the charging system running on a Nissan Leaf electric car was unveiled in Japan on Tuesday. A ...
Feed Item - 2 August 2011
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