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Twitter, texting could help families in disasters
Sep 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Text messaging, Twitter and social networking Web sites could help families stay in touch in the wake of a disaster, a national safety group said Tuesday.
Gorilla study gives clues to human language development
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Oct 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Sussex study provides evidence that gorilla communication is linked to the left hemisphere of the brain - just as it is in humans.
Why the swamp sparrow is hitting the high notes
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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Birdsongs are used extensively as models for animal signaling and human speech, offering a glimpse of how our own communicating abilities developed. A new study by Adrienne DuBois, a graduate student at the ...
Chimp and human communication trace to same brain region
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Feb 28, 2008 |
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An area of the brain involved in the planning and production of spoken and signed language in humans plays a similar role in chimpanzee communication, researchers report online on February 28th in the journal Current Biology.
DNA-damaged cells communicate with neighbors to let them know they're in trouble
Jul 13, 2009 |
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When cells experiencing DNA damage fail to repair themselves, they send a signal to their neighbors letting them know they're in trouble. The discovery, which shows that a process dubbed the DDR (DNA Damage Response) also ...
Insects use plant like a telephone
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Apr 23, 2008 |
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Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning ...
Exciton-based circuits eliminate a 'speed trap' between computing and communication signals
Jun 19, 2008 |
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Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San Diego have demonstrated.
Tuning in on cellular communication in the fruit fly
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Feb 18, 2009 |
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In their ongoing study of the processes involved in embryonic development in fruit flies, researchers at WPI's Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park have identified the function of a protein that sticks ...
Flies, too, feel the influence of their peers, studies find
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Sep 11, 2008 |
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We all know that people can be influenced in complex ways by their peers. But two new studies in the September 11th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, reveal that the same can also be said of fruit flies. ...
LED lights build communication network
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a world where bright, energy-sipping, cheap, durable LEDs light the world. A world where if you have enough light to see, you are connected. The University of California, Riverside ...
Meaningful monkey calls
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Researchers have made what they say is the first experimental demonstration that a primate other than humans conveys meaning by combining distinct alarm calls in particular ways. The study appears in the March 11th issue ...
Communication problems in dementia care cause physical strain
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Excessive physical strain in dementia care is not so much related to equipment or the resident's body weight as it is due to communication problems and misunderstandings. This is shown in a new study from the Sahlgrenska ...
New LED lights have a bright future for communication
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Imagine a world where bright, energy sipping, cheap, durable LEDs light the world. A world where if you have enough light to see, you are connected.
European light research opens door for optical storage and computing
Apr 24, 2008 |
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The goal of replacing electronics with optics for processing data in computers is coming closer through cutting edge European research into the mysterious properties of “fast and slow” light. The long term aim is to boost ...
Scientists reaching consensus on how brain processes speech
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and language, according to a scientist at Georgetown University Medical Center who first laid the ...
