 Optical illusions: caused by eye or brain? November 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 71 vote(s)
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When viewing the famous optical illusion painting Enigma by Isia Leviant, many people claim to see motion within the colored circles moving against the black and white striped background. Although this ... | |
Secret to workplace happiness? Remember what you love about the job, study urges November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Urging employees to simply rethink their jobs was enough to drop absenteeism by 60 per cent and turnover by 75 per cent, a new University of Alberta study shows. | |
 Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor November 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 76 vote(s)
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Since their development in the 1940s, transistors have been at the heart of computers and other modern electronic devices. Transistors – whose job is to start, stop, or amplify electric current – come in all ... | |
 Ericsson Predicts Mobile Phones With Full HD, 1 GHz Processor Frequency By 2012 November 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile phones of the future will be equipped with a 12 MP to 20 MP cameras with full HD capability by 2012, according to Jonas Lundstedt, Director of Ericsson's Portfolio Management, Product ... | |
Research shows that time invested in practicing pays off for young musicians November 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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A Harvard-based study published October 29 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, led by Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner has found that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years ... | |
 Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon 14 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Zipf’s law is a testament to the order in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety of situations. The linguist George Kingsley Zipf first proposed the law in 1949, ... | |
Scientists find key to keeping killer T cells in prime shape for fighting infection, cancer November 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Like tuning a violin to produce strong, elegant notes, researchers at The Wistar Institute have found multiple receptors on the outside of the body's killer immune system cells which they believe can be selectively targeted ... | |
Creating a memory device out of paper November 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology continues to shrink, and as memory needs become more demanding, the industry dealing with microelectronics requires devices that are cost-efficient and lightweight. And, while organic materials ... | |
How eating red meat can spur cancer progression November 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Ajit Varki, M.D., have shown a new mechanism for how human consumption of red meat and milk products could contribute to the increased risk ... | |
Surprisingly, Female Models Have Negative Effect on Men November 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many studies have shown that media images of female models have had a negative impact on how woman view their own bodies, but does this same effect hold true when men view male models? A leading researcher ... | |
 Rocks could be harnessed to sponge vast amounts of CO2 from air, says study November 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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Scientists say that a type of rock found at or near the surface in the Mideast nation of Oman and other areas around the world could be harnessed to soak up huge quantities of globe-warming carbon dioxide. ... | |
'Junk' DNA proves functional November 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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In a paper published in Genome Research on Nov. 4, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) report that what was previously believed to be "junk" DNA is one of the important ingredients distinguishing ... | |
How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing November 20, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 113 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If space-time were constructed in such a way that you could travel back in time, it would create some pretty strange effects. One of these oddities, as many people know, is the “grandfather paradox.” Here, ... | |
 'Impeach Obama' groups pop up on Facebook November 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Barack Obama has not even been sworn in yet as the 44th president of the United States but groups are springing up online calling for his impeachment. | |
 Cancer patient genome sequenced for the first time November 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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For the first time, scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease - acute myelogenous leukemia - to its genetic roots. A large research team at the Genome Sequencing Center ... | |
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