Scientists were just given the go-ahead from sponsors and funders to embark on the largest music-related endeavor that a group has ever undertaken online. The goal of the Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI) project is to allow experts to analyze more than 350,000 songs at the same time,... |
4 December 2009 11:02 GMT |
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Authorities in the United Kingdom will only be allowed to hold the DNA evidence related to persons found to be innocent of the crimes they were charged with, for a maximum period of six years, after which time they will have to destroy the material. The decision applies in England and Wales, the UK Home Office has an... |
11 November 2009 22:31 GMT |
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Anthony Aristar, a professor of linguistics at the Eastern Michigan University, and Lyle Campbell, also a professor of linguistics and the director of the Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL) at the University of Utah have recently decided to organize the world's first-ever workshop featuring a large numb... |
2 November 2009 06:53 GMT |
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Scientific knowledge on how the cetaceans, a group of aquatic mammals including whales, dolphins and porpoises, evolved is fairly scarce. Fossils belonging to the earliest such animals that decided to leave the ground and go into the water are very rare to come by, so the understanding of how these animals evolved ha... |
25 September 2009 09:48 GMT |
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Google was one of the best things that happened to the Internet, a large number of experts are not afraid to admit. But it would seem, others say, that the age of simply searching for terms on the World Wide Web is coming to a rather abrupt end. Demand from surfers now concerns having their questions answered as soon... |
30 April 2009 09:25 GMT |
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The Deep Sky Project is an ambitious initiative, conducted by astronomers, engineers and computer scientists from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, with the purpose of making an incredibly large astronomical database available to researchers around the world. After more than a decade o... |
1 April 2009 06:05 GMT |
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The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research's (SCAR) again finds itself at the forefront of scientific advancements, with the completion of the first set of databases meant to give naturalists, biologists and everyone else interested access to the first complete marine census in history.This March, the Intern... |
31 March 2009 09:36 GMT |
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