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TV documentaries are fast forwarding into the digital future to tap new sources of revenue, offering interactive and "360" packages to audiences increasingly getting their television fix online. http://www.physorg.com/news157638414.html Technology Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:27:23 EST news157638414 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dentists of the future could be using games technology to hone their clinical skills. http://www.physorg.com/news157134004.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:20:30 EST news157134004 Florida Institute of Technology researchers have determined that where a person is standing in a room or other location during a suicide terrorist attack can have a great bearing on survival and injuries. http://www.physorg.com/news157045387.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:43:46 EST news157045387 (PhysOrg.com) -- Buying a new car is one of the biggest purchases most people make. But how can you be sure that the car you order will live up to your expectations? European and Asian researchers are using immersive virtual reality and emotional design to offer a solution. http://www.physorg.com/news157040818.html Technology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:27:40 EST news157040818 (AP) -- With banks around the world foundering, the idea of moving your bank account to another planet might have some appeal. http://www.physorg.com/news156611643.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:14:41 EST news156611643 One of the most significant developments in agricultural growth in modern times has been the continuous and substantial increase in corn yield over the past 80 years in the U.S. Corn Belt. http://www.physorg.com/news156434984.html Biology Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:10:28 EST news156434984 Linden Lab chief executive Mark Kingdon shakes his head when he sees news stories heralding the demise of former Internet darling Second Life. http://www.physorg.com/news156269282.html Technology Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:08:26 EST news156269282 Researchers have shown that they can tell where a person is "standing" within a virtual reality room on the basis of the pattern of activity in the brain alone. The findings, published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, offer compelling evidence that the hippocampus, a region of the brain critical to navigation, memory, and imagining future experiences, works in a structured and predictable way. That discovery is contrary to what many experts had previously suspected, according to the researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news156096557.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:09:49 EST news156096557 It may be possible to "read" a person's memories just by looking at brain activity, according to research carried out by Wellcome Trust scientists. In a study published today in the journal Current Biology, they show that our memories are recorded in regular patterns, a finding which challenges current scientific thinking. http://www.physorg.com/news156084067.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:41:32 EST news156084067 (PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science -a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve information from online services. The research, led by Johan Bollen, appears this week in PLoS ONE (the Public Library of Science). http://www.physorg.com/news155994010.html Other Sciences Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:40:40 EST news155994010 The United States often cannot quickly or reliably trace a cyber attack back to its source, even as rival nations and extremists may be looking to wage virtual war, a top official warned Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news155937581.html Technology Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:59:57 EST news155937581 IBM is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time and expense of in-person meetings. http://www.physorg.com/news155403861.html Technology Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:45:37 EST news155403861 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first virtual reality headset that can stimulate all five senses will be unveiled at a major science event in London on March 4th. http://www.physorg.com/news155397580.html Technology Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:00:03 EST news155397580 Despite the increased popularity of geek culture - movies based on comic books, videogames, virtual worlds - and the ubiquity of computers, the geek's close cousin, the nerd, still suffers from a negative stereotype in popular culture. This may help explain why women and minorities are increasingly shying away from careers in information technology, says Lori Kendall, a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://www.physorg.com/news155305365.html Other Sciences Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:23:11 EST news155305365 Children's moral behavior and attitudes in the real world largely carry over to the virtual world of computers, the Internet, video games and cell phones. Interestingly, there are marked gender and race differences in the way children rate morally questionable virtual behaviors, according to Professor Linda Jackson and her team from Michigan State University in the US. Their research is the first systematic investigation of the effects of gender and race on children's beliefs about moral behavior, both in the virtual world and the real world, and the relationship between the two. The study was published online in Springer's journal, Sex Roles. http://www.physorg.com/news155220473.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:48:24 EST news155220473 For all of the conveniences of online shopping -- no crowds, easy parking, seemingly endless choices -- it can't always compete with the real thing. At least not yet. A Kansas State University marketing professor said consumers can expect that some of the disadvantages of online shopping will disappear as retailers adapt models from Second Life. http://www.physorg.com/news154268750.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:30:54 EST news154268750 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of French astronomers has captured one of the sharpest color images ever made. They observed the star T Leporis, which appears, on the sky, as small as a two-storey house on the Moon. The image was taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), emulating a virtual telescope about 100 metres across and reveals a spherical molecular shell around an aged star. http://www.physorg.com/news154176167.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:43:32 EST news154176167 For the past two decades, the Internet has been used by many as an easy-to-use tool that enables the spread of information globally. Increasingly, the Web is moving beyond its use as an electronic "Yellow Pages" and online messaging platform to a virtual world where social interaction and communities can inform social science and its applications in the real world. http://www.physorg.com/news153834869.html Other Sciences Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:55:10 EST news153834869 In the real world, tracking a person's social network -- which could include hundreds of contacts that serve different purposes -- is nearly impossible. http://www.physorg.com/news153833424.html Other Sciences Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:31:12 EST news153833424 Google "Edward the Confessor" and you'll get page after page of links to biographies of this 11th-century English king, to Westminster Abbey, which he founded and where he is buried, and to the Magna Carta, which was partly inspired by laws enacted during his 24-year reign. http://www.physorg.com/news153499567.html Technology Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:46:40 EST news153499567 Penn State's Institute for CyberScience will target large-scale modeling, simulation and data analysis with a terascale advanced computing system, funded by the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program. http://www.physorg.com/news153054390.html Technology Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:06:53 EST news153054390 One of the toughest technological challenges for law enforcement is to simultaneously monitor live feeds from the wireless cameras scattered across their jurisdictions. A nearly impossible task under any circumstances, it was an even greater one for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration. http://www.physorg.com/news152988620.html Technology Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:50:50 EST news152988620 (PhysOrg.com) -- Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of the cosmos. Since 1994, this digital archive has made access to and manipulation of celestial surveys its specialty. It boasts a full spectrum of data, ranging from radio to gamma-rays. http://www.physorg.com/news152985391.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:57:06 EST news152985391 (PhysOrg.com) -- With their immersive 3D capabilities, virtual-reality environments (VEs) provide the kind of intense visual experience that two-dimensional digital televisions could never to live up to. But digital TVs outperform VEs in one important way: They can play high-resolution video in real-time without a hitch, while VEs have trouble rendering the data-heavy video clips at a constant frame rate. http://www.physorg.com/news152981636.html Technology Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:55:59 EST news152981636 The software code underlying violent computer games can be used to train people in fire safety, new academic research has found. http://www.physorg.com/news152950556.html Other Sciences Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:33:01 EST news152950556 What if you didn't have a separate work computer to deal with anymore? Instead, you and your co-workers would use personal laptops to access work files and software - without having to download anything on your computer. It's part of the workplace future that Citrix Systems and Intel are working to make a reality. http://www.physorg.com/news152383531.html Technology Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:46:02 EST news152383531 (PhysOrg.com) -- The systems that let you zap a photo to a friend, or an astronomer to control a telescope continents away, require intensive simulation and testing. Research has now made those key steps far easier. http://www.physorg.com/news152379315.html Technology Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:36:09 EST news152379315 Children who talk on cell phones while crossing streets are at a higher risk for injuries or death in a pedestrian accident, said psychologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in a new study that will appear in the February issue of Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news152196931.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:56:35 EST news152196931 Trainee surgeons who add virtual reality (VR) training to standard 'apprenticeship' training in key-hole surgery learn more quickly, work with greater accuracy and have less errors than those with no VR training, and perform as well as those who use additional video training. The finding of this Cochrane Systematic Review is important because training surgeons is time-consuming and costly, and surgeons have to develop new skills while working within the hour-limits set by European legislation. http://www.physorg.com/news151737282.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:15:15 EST news151737282 (PhysOrg.com) -- Highly dispersed and mobile teams are the definition of modern business, but organising them is a hard problem. Now European researchers have developed a service bundle that could make virtual team organisation a snap. http://www.physorg.com/news150998779.html Technology Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:06:19 EST news150998779