http://www.apple.com/science/ Science RSS Feed provided by Apple. en-us Copyright 2008, Apple Inc. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:02:04 PDT Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:02:04 PDT Apple In house http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.apple.com/science/productivitylab/?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss As a scientist, your Mac can be a valuable asset, especially when it comes time to share your research findings with colleagues. To find out how you can use tools on your Mac to create research posters, websites, and dynamic presentations, visit the Science Productivity Lab, where you’ll find tips and tutorials created with the needs of the scientific community in mind. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:00:04 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/manchester/?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss The duck-billed Hadrosaur dubbed Dakota grazed the area now known as the North Dakota badlands some 65 million years ago. Unearthed in 1999, Dakota yielded not only soft tissue (an exceedingly rare find) but also near-complete mummified remains. Using a Mac Pro cluster, University of Manchester scientists are now discovering how the 7000-pound looked, walked, and ran. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:32:47 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/romela/?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss Last year, just three and already competing at the world-class level, DARwin wowed crowds with his strength and on-field acrobatics. The youngster plays soccer for TEAM SPRInt, the first US team to qualify for the RoboCup, a global competition where soccer-playing robots vie for the world title. And, with the help of their Macs, the Virginia Tech team plans to send DARwin back to the 2008 RoboCup in China. Wed, 21 May 2008 10:21:59 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hebert/?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss Using his 24-inch iMac, Jean-Pierre Hébert, the 68-year-old artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara, California, creates “algorithmic art” in a variety of media—from sand to copper to tree bark. “Mac OS X is a very good environment for me to work in,” he says. “It offers the best of all possible worlds.” Thu, 08 May 2008 11:10:25 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/mit/?sr=science.rss Deb Roy and his wife Rupal Patel have turned their house into a high-tech observatory and live-in laboratory. With the aid of their young son, the pair of academics are collecting data for the most ambitious study ever conducted on how children acquire language. So far, their Human Speechome Program has amassed more than 200,000 hours of audio and video recordings — more than 250 terabytes of data — and they’ll depend on a Mac application called TotalRecall to help them make sense of it. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:40:30 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/insidetheimage/seramon/?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss Egyptologists have extracted amulets from the remains of mummies in the past. But before Dr. Samuel Mérigeaud made the amulets of Seramon the subject of his doctoral thesis, no one had done so non-invasively. Embalmers interred the ancient Theban priest with multiple glass, stone, and beeswax figurines placed inside his thoracic and abdominal cavities. And though they remain there still, X-ray tomography, VGStudio MAX 1.2.1, a Mac Pro, and two Apple Cinema displays have revealed them in spectacular fashion. See for yourself. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:13:36 PDT itms://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wgbh.org.1415114254?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss As a teacher, you’re always on the lookout for great educational resources. And you’ll find a rich supply of content on iTunes U. Take, for example, the free digital library available at teachers’ domain. Brought to you by WGBH, Boston’s award-winning PBS station, teachers’ domain offers downloadable videos and educator guides. Ranging from A Night in the Coral Reef to Homo Sapiens versus Neanderthals to Mitochondrial Flyover, they offer an invaluable addition to your science curriculum. And they’re just a tiny portion of the content waiting for you on iTunes U. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:07:17 PST http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/amnh/?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss Science Bulletins — high-definition visualizations that play on 12-foot video screens — help visitors to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York understand highly complex processes affecting the earth and its inhabitants, such as the retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, the erosion and recovery of the ozone layer, or the impact of changing seasons on plant growth worldwide. To create the Bulletins, the team at AMNH depend on an all-Mac production pipeline to process raw satellite and other data, transforming it into interactive 3D animations that let people watch the earth change right before their eyes. Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:18:11 PST http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/origami/?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss A physicist by trade, Robert J. Lang also has a quite unique claim to fame as one of the world’s foremost origami artists. In fact, he has a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wing span at permanent display at the Redpath Museum of Natural History and a long list of commissions and commercial projects waiting in the wings. And he uses his MacBook Pro, two software programs he authored, and Wolfram’s Mathematica to help him conceptualize and map out each new creation. Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:42:38 PST http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/andrill/?sr=science.rss By studying ice cores extracted from deep within the Ross Ice Shelf, scientists with the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program hope to learn how this area of the Antarctic has responded to climate change over the past 15 to 20 million years. The cores have much to reveal, and thanks to their Mac Pro computer and two tiled 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays, scientists can now study high-resolution enlarged images of those cores. Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:58:06 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/mummy/index.html?sr=hotnews?sr=science.rss How do you examine a 2300 year old mummy without causing any harm to an important biological, historical, and cultural antiquity? MAAT3D—a French organization of scientists, doctors, and educators—uses the Mac and VGStudio Max 2.0 to scan mummies and other valuable biological objects noninvasively and to create 3D visualizations of incredibly rich (and revealing) detail. “The Mac platform is an all-in-one solution for us. We create VG models on it, then use it for video and movie postproduction for museum presentations that will eventually be presented on iPods,” explains MAAT3D co-founder Benjamin Moreno. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:21:08 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/microarraycentre/?sr=science.rss Toronto’s UHN Microarray Core Facility is a world leader in serving the needs of researchers involved in high-throughput study of genomes and proteomes, providing technologies that are used for the study of human and animal biology and disease. Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:26:38 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/harvard/?sr=science.rss The Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) brings scientists together to discover new approaches for solving disparate problems with common threads. Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:38:17 PDT http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070325/sc_livescience/ipodshelpdoctorsrecognizeheartproblems?sr=science.rss LiveScience.com staff reports that, “Doctors can greatly improve their stethoscope skills and therefore their ability to diagnose heart problems by listening repeatedly to heartbeats on their iPods.” Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:02:24 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/paloalto/?sr=science.rss High-def endoscopy images and videos on Macs allow physicians at the Palo Alto Veteran’s Hospital to see subtle indications of early cancer lesions, improving their ability to make timely diagnoses. Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:34:31 PST http://www.apple.com/science/insidetheimage/?sr=science.rss A new section in the Apple Science site explores how the visual expression of scientific phenomenona advances our understanding of the world around us. The site will be regularly updated with new articles and images, featuring those by Harvard Senior Research Fellow Felice Frankel. Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:24:21 PST http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/induquimica/?sr=science.rss To facilitate its expansion into forensic DNA analysis and genomic research, Induquimíca Laboratorios, one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in Peru, replaced its Windows systems with Macs. Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:30:00 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/tbi/?sr=science.rss Oil and gas exploration is a high-risk business whose success depends upon accurate seismic imaging and analysis. To ensure that the risk is kept to a minimum, Thrust Belt Imaging implemented a powerful imaging system based on Xserves and Apple Cinema Displays. Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:02:37 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/aregullin/?sr=science.rss As a “chemical prospector,” as he calls himself, Dr. Manuel Aregullin combs nature’s flora in search of promising chemicals that could lead to the development of new medicine. To aid him in visualizing their structures, he turns to his Macs and ChemDraw. Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:17:42 PDT http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/frankel/?sr=science.rss In the world of scientific visualization, Felice Frankel’s photographic portrayals of nature’s phenomena are unmatched in their beauty and their capacity to communicate science and inspire discoveries. Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:18:03 PDT