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7 November 2012

Satellites, servers, and story-telling help disaster rapid response

When natural disasters and human conflicts strike, who are you going to call? Geographic information systems analysts, that's who. They provide a rapid frontline service to turn satellite imagery into information that helps internally displaced people.

Adrian Giordani
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Are comets born in asteroid collisions?

Astronomers are using grid computing to build an  asteroid famiy tree. The work could be key to revealing the mysterious origins of a new type of comet recently discovered.

Sara Coelho
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Finger-nail-sized hard drives just require some smoothing

Computer hard drive storage 15 times denser than today may be closer, due to discovery that surface-roughness height of 10 atoms is limit at which self-      assembly can successfully occur.

Adrian Giordani
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Staying ahead of a superstorm with open-data visualizations
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The need for long-term digital retention in eHealth

The soaring amount of medical data produced has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, but ensuring it remains available and understandable poses a significant challenge, reports Zara Qadir from this last month's eChallenges conference in Lisbon.

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A decade of iSGTW!

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