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Visualizing Ardi's 4.4 Million-year-old Footsteps

News of "Ardi," the oldest and most complete hominid skeleton yet discovered, continues to generate worldwide interest. 3-D models and biomechanical simulation were used to help researchers understand how the 4.4 million-year-old female walked and moved ...continue

Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed: A Stepping Stone to the Island of Stability

Scientists have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, 10 years after a group in Russia first claimed to have made it. The search for 114 has long been a key part of the quest for nuclear science’s hoped-for Island of Stability ...continue

A Trillion Triangles: New code cracks ancient math problem

Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem ...continue

Pumping Up Power Efficiency

Lean, green systems and high-performance “smart” processors provide an energy edge
Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and AMD

Whether you design drugs, manufacture consumer products or airplanes, or search for oil, improving your computing performance will improve your competitiveness. But what do you do when the “need for speed’ collides with demands for reduced operating budgets and lower environmental impact? ...continue

Extreme Data Storage: Next-gen Sequencing Solutions

An interactive, streaming audio Webcast
Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard

Expert panel examines next-gen sequencing storage challenges and strategies to manage exponential growth in data volumes, successful implementation of scalable storage solution in clinical research environment ...continue

Understanding the Electronic Common Technical Document

Podcast (14:15 min)
Following a general move by the pharmaceutical industry toward electronic-based processes, both the FDA and its European counterparts are now recommending the use of the eCTD for regulatory submissions ...continue

Quality by Design for Lab Automation

Podcast (11:19 min)
QbD is an initiative of the FDA and the biomedical industries it regulates intended to integrate the quality process through research, development, manufacturing and distribution ...continue

Solving Comp Chem Challenges

An interactive, streaming audio Webcast
Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard
Gene Sequencing

As technology provides chemists with exponential improvements in computational capability, they are employing the new power to investigate formerly unaddressable research problems. ...continue

Information Management in the 21st Century

Podcast (15:14 min)
In the global information economy of the 21st century, effective information management is critical to gaining competitive advantage. Discusses five critical IT-based activities, illustrating advances in technology that drive innovation. ...continue

Numerical Precision: How Much is Enough?

Rob Farber
As we approach ever-larger and more complex problems, scientists will need to consider this question
The advent of petascale computers and teraflop-per-board graphics processors has raised the question of “how do we know that anything we compute is correct?” ...continue

Technical Computing Throws a New Challenge to Science Budgets

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Andrew Jones
Investments in software engineering can be the make-or-break factor
For many years, scientists have been able to rely on computer technology doubling in speed roughly every 18 months — usually referred to as a result of Moore’s Law ...continue

Computing Climate Change: Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Phillip M. Dickens, Ph.D.

Scientific grid portal will host climate-change models, offer special public Web interface
Maine’s first grid portal will execute models and provide high-resolution visualizations of output data in real time ...continue

Ultra Quiet Office Cluster

The Ultra Quiet line of office clusters features customizable, compact supercomputers with the Intel Xeon 5500 processor ...continue

More HPC

Maple 13

Maple 13, technical computing software designed for engineers, mathematicians, and scientists ...continue

Manga Strikes Again! The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology

Latest edition of Manga science and math series is a quick read and easily suitable for junior high students
web exclusive
John A. Wass, Ph.D.

All living things are made of cells. And thus begins the adventures of Rin and Ami, two Japanese college students who have skipped too many of their intro molecular biology classes to satisfy the attendance requirement ...continue

Modeling Differential Equations in Biology

A text on the mathematics of diffusion, classical ecology, geology and epidemiology
web exclusive
John A. Wass, Ph.D.

The back cover of Modeling Differential Equations in Biology explains that, as college level science students only take the rudiments of calculus, this book fills a gap in teaching the biology students how to use differential equations in their research ...continue

More Data Analysis

A New Snowboard will not Save Me

Why meet and greet conferences don’t pay off
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Randy C. Hice
A New Snowboard will not Save Me

Snowboarding has a much higher learning curve than skiing, largely due to the asymmetry of the techniques involved to successfully aim a small flat missile down a steep mountain, with your feet locked into bindings that do not release ...continue

Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Three regulatory scenarios

If rules directly impact on life and death, wouldn’t you prefer an independent Umpire?
web exclusive
Sandy Weinberg, Ph.D., and Ron Fuqua, Ph.D.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Three regulatory scenarios

There are three major pharmaceutical regulatory scenarios operating in different parts of the globe. If an organization is trying, with all good intentions, to conform to the regulatory requirements for a laboratory information management system (or any other aspect of regulated operations) understanding which scenario is in play is an excellent first step ...continue

Preparing for the Coming Superdemic

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Sandy Weinberg, Ph.D. and Ronald Fuqua, Ph.D.
Advanced preparation is critical for successful adaptation
The HHS and CDC plans for coping with a superdemic have significant impacts on scientific computing and automation. However, the key to successful adaptation is careful advanced preparation ...continue

LABTrack Version 4

Version 4 electronic lab notebook software allows users to drag-and-drop embedded files between notebook pages, even on different notebooks ...continue

More Informatics

Making the Right Connection

P. Lindsay Powell
How to choose the best interface for your purposes
Making the Right Connection

Helping to drive interoperability between computers over networks, industry standards have facilitated the growth of LAN, SAN and the Internet ...continue

Universal Analog Input Module

Universal analog input module to USB-2404 series of simultaneous data acquisition devices provides four channels of 24-bit universal analog input with integrated signal conditioning ...continue