ScienceDaily (Aug. 22, 2011) — Growing up is not easy, especially for tiny nanowires: With no support or guidance, nanowires become unruly, making it difficult to harness their full potential as effective semiconductors. Prof. Ernesto Joselevich of the Weizmann Institute’s Chemistry Faculty has found a way to grow semiconductor nanowires out, not up, on a [...]
Lille, quelques dates du 15 au 26 mai 2012 Conte intemporel qui berce en nous un besoin de justice où les bons finissent par être récompensés, Cendrillon a donné lieu à d’innombrables versions aux tonalités très différentes. Entre la mièvrerie acidulée des studios Disney et la cruauté de Perrault ou des frères Grimm, l’adaptation lyrique [...]
Continue reading …ScienceDaily (Aug. 12, 2011) — University of Manchester scientists, working with colleagues in Edinburgh and Australia, have provided the first direct biological evidence for a genetic contribution to people’s intelligence. Previous studies on twins and adopted people suggested that there is a substantial genetic contribution to thinking skills, but this new study — published in [...]
Continue reading …La vidéo que voici est intéressante à plus d’un titre. Tout d’abord, elle remet en comparaison et en relief le mode économique développé par le Japon pour s’être maintenu jusqu’au début des années ’90 aux premières places des puissances économiques mondiales. Mais surtout, il s’agit d’une critique en règle de l’idée d’efficacité d’une réforme qui [...]
Continue reading …ScienceDaily (June 23, 2011) — Two studies featuring research from Weill Cornell Medical College have uncovered surprising details about the complex process that leads to the flow of neurotransmitters between brain neurons — a dance of chemical messages so delicate that missteps often lead to neurological dysfunction. A recent Nature Neuroscience study led by Dr. [...]
Continue reading …L’OTAN n’a pas fini d’entendre parler du cas libyen : présente dans le pays depuis maintenant trois mois, l’alliance atlantique a toujours su intervenir avec parcimonie. Cette parcimonie est désormais remise en question : l’organisation est accusée de bavure par les autorités libyennes du fait d’un raid aérien mené à Tripoli dans la nuit de [...]
Continue reading …The US economy is facing one of its most devastating downturns in its history. Even though some believe that the crisis may be over, but there are also those who believe the turn is downwards. In this edition of News Analysis, financial journalist Max Keiser, Prof. at California University Paul Sheldon Foote and political expert [...]
Continue reading …The US economy is facing one of its most devastating downturns in its history. Even though some believe that the crisis may be over, but there are also those who believe the turn is downwards. In this edition of News Analysis, financial journalist Max Keiser, prof. at California University Paul Sheldon Foote and political expert [...]
Continue reading …BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) — China’s capital market faces three problems namely marketization, market structure and cultural factors, a senior official with China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has said. Marketization should be promoted as the country’s stock exchanges still lag behind global ones in terms of marketization, said Qi Bin, director of the CSRC research [...]
Continue reading …This may have been a domestic dream a half-century ago, when the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence first captured public imagination. However, it quickly became clear that even “simple” human actions are extremely difficult to replicate in robots. Now, MIT computer scientists are tackling the problem with a hierarchical, progressive algorithm that has the [...]
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