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Adobe founders bound together by friendship as well as profits

Technology / Business

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

I can't imagine there is any more room for awards on the mantels at John Warnock's and Chuck Geschke's homes. The Adobe co-founders have been honored by trade groups, engineering societies, magazines and universities. But ...


Researchers finds hidden sensory system in the skin

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Researchers report that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system aside from the nerves that give most of us the ability to touch and feel. Surprisingly, this sensory network is located throughout ...


Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

Explained: The Discrete Fourier Transform

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (36) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1811, Joseph Fourier, the 43-year-old prefect of the French district of Isčre, entered a competition in heat research sponsored by the French Academy of Sciences. The paper he submitted ...


It's a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In a research report published in the November 2009 issue of the journal Genetics, scientists show how a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethyle ...


From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.


'Virtual students' go to school without being in school

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Eleventh-grader Philip Marten's second-hour class is orchestra. But first hour, third hour, fourth hour and the rest of his school day are spent not at school but at home in Shawnee, Kan.


Monkeys get a groove on, but only to monkey music

Monkeys get a groove on, but only to monkey music (w/ Audio)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Music is one of the surest ways to influence human emotions; most people unconsciously recognize and respond to music that is happy, sad, fearful or mellow. But psychologists who have tried ...


Human mind: Sound and vision wired through same 'black box'

Human mind: Sound and vision wired through same 'black box'

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Sounds and images share a similar neural code in the human brain, according to a new Canadian study. In the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists from the Univ ...


Music may have a future role in heart and stroke patient rehab

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blood flow and respiratory rates can synch with music, indicating that music could one day be a therapeutic tool for blood pressure control and rehabilitation, according to a study by Italian researchers published in Circulation: Jo ...


Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet helps summer travelers beat jet lag

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the summer travel season begins, many vacation and business travelers will beat jet lag with the Anti-Jet-Lag Diet developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.


15M hits later, YouTube Symphony makes live debut (AP)

15M hits later, YouTube Symphony makes live debut

Technology / Internet

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Even before they played their first note together, they were listed as one of the world's most inspiring orchestras.


15 Great iPhone Games

Technology / Software

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It happened when no one was looking. The DS was busily extending Nintendo's decades-long dominance of the handheld market, and Sony was trying to make third-party partners stop ignoring the PSP like the kid with dental headgear ...


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Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in ...


IBM Delivers New 'Social' Lotus Notes and Free Symphony Software for Macs

Technology / Software

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At Macworld, IBM today announced the availability of Lotus Notes 8.5 collaboration software with social computing features for all Mac OS X Leopard-powered computers. In addition, IBM's free Lotus Symphony document, spreadsheet ...


The inaudible symphony analyzed

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

By measuring 'inaudible' sounds, events like illegal nuclear tests can be detected. This 'infrasound' can also help us understand more about the upper atmosphere, according to Läslo Evers. Evers will receive a PhD based on ...