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12/20/2011 | News
Thanks
to a new online toolkit developed at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who
needs to
find a material with specific properties—whether it's to build a better
mousetrap or a better battery—will now be able to do so far more easily
than
ever before.
11/3/2011 | News
New materials are crucial to building a clean energy economy, but today the development cycle is too slow: around 18 years from conception to commercialization. To speed up this process, a team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology teamed up to develop a new tool, called the Materials Project.
5/3/2011 | News
CiteULike
has become a popular ranking system for white papers, and, much like
conventional social bookmarking tools, has become indispensible for many
researchers. A Thailand study team now claims there’s a better way to
rank research. Their system, called CiteRank, combines two different
ratings that measure quality and search similarity.
10/20/2010 | News
Princeton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the
origins and spread of ideas, a technique that could make it easier to
gauge the influence of notable scholarly papers, buzz-generating news
stories, and other information sources.
11/16/2009 | News
If you don’t have the time to travel to Florence, you can still see Michelangelo’s
statue of David on the Internet, revolving in near true-to-life 3-D around its
own axis. The European joint project 3D-COFORM aims to digitize historical
objects in museums, marking a major, searchable advance over the current
printed catalogs.
6/8/2009 | News
A systemic study of 1 million Web searches has revealed persistent habits on the part of users. The researcher found that most people are so focused on their search terminology that they refuse system assistance, despite having to reformulate their queries as they went. The results pointed to ways new search engines could help more.
