'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation
Oct 09, 2007 |
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When it comes to explaining the evolution of human cooperation, researchers have traditionally looked to the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (IPD) game as the paradigm. However, the observed degree of cooperation ...
Focus images instantly with Adobe’s computational photography
Oct 09, 2007 |
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Adobe has recently unveiled some novel photo editing abilities with a new technology known as computational photography. With a combination of a special lens and computer software, the technique can divide ...
Complete Internet census taken -- perhaps the first since 1982
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 09, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, one of the birthplaces of the Internet decades ago, have just completed and plotted a comprehensive census of all of the ...
Body-mind meditation boosts performance, reduces stress
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 09, 2007 |
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A team of researchers from China and the University of Oregon have developed an approach for neuroscientists to study how meditation might provide improvements in a person's attention and response to stress.
NASA: major step toward knowing origin of cosmic rays
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Recent observations from NASA and Japanese X-ray observatories have helped clarify one of the long-standing mysteries in astronomy – the origin of cosmic rays.
Astronomers Find Dust in the Wind of Black Holes
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The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust – the same stuff that makes up living ...
Swedish Agency Develops Underwater Wireless Technology
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The Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI has developed an underwater wireless technology that has been tested for accurately predicting weather conditions, sea pollution and earthquakes. The new technology is a vast improvement ...
New Horizons Spacecraft Sees Changes in Jupiter System
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 09, 2007 |
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft provided a new bird's-eye view of the dynamic Jupiter system as it traveled through the planet's orbit on Feb. 28.
Study finds that even aloof husbands have lower testosterone levels than unmarried men
Oct 09, 2007 |
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A fascinating new study is the first outside of North America to observe lower testosterone levels among married men. Supporting a growing body of research, the study reveals that even married men who are considered aloof ...
New NEC Technology Isolates Viruses At the Core
Oct 09, 2007 |
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NEC has developed a new technology for spotting, isolating and stopping viruses at the core level of its multi-core CPU. Thus, the system keeps running, while the infected core is disabled while a fix is developed ...
Humans unknowing midwives for pregnant moose
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When it’s time for moose to give birth in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, they head to where it is safest from predators – namely closer to people, according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Generating 'oohs' and 'aahs': Vocal Joystick uses voice to surf the Internet
Oct 09, 2007 |
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The Internet offers wide appeal to people with disabilities. But many of those same people find it frustrating or impossible to use a handheld mouse. Software developed at the University of Washington provides ...
Powders show their strength
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[PIC=:left]Growing a single crystal of a protein can be very difficult. Thanks to recent developments, a powder sample may be enough to solve a structure.
For honey bee queens, multiple mating makes a difference
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The success of the “reign” of a honey bee queen appears to be determined to a large degree by the number of times she mates with drone bees.
An AIDS-related virus reveals more ways to cause cancer
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shed new light on how Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpes Virus (KSHV) subverts normal cell machinery to cause cancer. A KSHV protein called latency-associated ...
