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StellarWindow turns your laptop into a virtual planetarium
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 05, 2008 |
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If you enjoy looking at the stars, but get a little impatient trying to figure out which way to hold your star map to identify the constellations, a new software program may make things easier. Called StellarWindow, ...
Faithful males do not bring flowers
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fairy-wrens are notorious for their infidelity: despite living in seemingly harmonious monogamous pairs, females produce mostly illegitimate young, and males spend more time courting other ...
Mother's little helpers
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Aug 16, 2007 |
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An Australian bird has been found to produce smaller, less nourishing eggs when it breeds in the presence of other ‘helper’ birds that provide child-care assistance. This unique adaptation enables the birds ...
Absinthe uncorked: The 'Green Fairy' was boozy -- but not psychedelic
Apr 29, 2008 |
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A new study may end the century-old controversy over what ingredient in absinthe caused the exotic green aperitif’s supposed mind-altering effects and toxic side-effects when consumed to excess. In the most ...
Phoenix Lander Leaves 'Footprints' on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander reached out and touched the Martian soil for the first time on Saturday, May 31, the first step in a series of actions expected to bring soil and ice to the lander's experiments.
Climate change turning Aussie birds smaller: study
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Australian birds have shrunk over the past century because of global warming, scientists have found.
The art of invisibility and the perfect cat's eye
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years scientists have explored the impossible by developing invisibility or 'cloaking' devices, but can the same technology also help make things more visible?
Sharks pose Sydney food-chain puzzle
Mar 29, 2009 |
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Three shark attacks in Sydney in three weeks drove newspapers and talk show hosts into a feeding frenzy and sent a collective shudder through the other species at the top of the food chain -- humans.
Young children learn to tell fact from fiction
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Children are able to distinguish between reality and fantasy between the ages of 3 and 5, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin.
Program does impressive file size reductions
Sep 18, 2009 |
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We intuitively understand the value of being able to make things smaller without sacrificing performance. The endeavor produces smaller speakers with bigger sound and a host of portable electronic devices such as digital ...
Can virtual teachers plug the educational divide?
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bringing more technology into the classroom might strike fear into the hearts of traditional educationalists, but one academic believes it may just hold the key to solving a worldwide problem.
Lies my parents told me: New study shows parents use deception to influence their children
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Parents say that honesty is the best policy, but they regularly lie to their children as a way of influencing their behaviour and emotions, finds new research from the University of Toronto and the University ...
Rethinking Brownian motion with the 'Emperor's New Clothes'
Jul 27, 2009 |
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In the classic fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen uses the eyes of a child to challenge conventional wisdom and help others to see more clearly. In similar fashion, researchers at the University ...
Study: 'Smart drug' Provigil may be habit-forming
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A so-called "smart drug" popular with young people may carry more of an addiction risk than thought, a small government study suggests. Scans of 10 healthy men showed that the prescription drug Provigil ...
NTT Introduces Commercial RedTaction 'Firmo' Security Device
May 05, 2008 |
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NTT has developed a means to harness the Human Area Network to create Firmo. Firmo utilizes RedTaction which is a human body communication technology. It uses the surface of the human body as a transmission ...
