The fragile regions in mammalian genomes that are thought to play a key role in evolution go through a “birth and death” process, according to new bioinformatics research performed at the University of California, San Diego. The new work, publis…
University of Southern California computer scientists have found a way to combine smartphone resources with a novel application that allows the phones’ users to help monitor air quality.
The application, provisionally titled “Visibility,” is a…
Computer science researchers at Stanford University have developed several new techniques that together may make it possible to calculate Web page rankings as used in the Google search engine up to five times faster. The speed-ups to Google’s method may make it realistic to calculate page rankings personalized for an individual’s interests or customized to a particular topic.