News tagged with baseball players


'Curve ball' wins international illusion contest

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Science has proven what baseball players have known for more than a hundred years, the curve ball is more powerful than the brain.





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World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up

World's rarest gorilla ready for its close-up (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 6 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

The world's rarest -- and most camera shy -- great ape has finally been captured on professional video on a forested mountain in Cameroon, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and Germany's NDR Naturfilm.


Growing Europe's nanowires

Growing Europe's nanowires

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial ...


Internet-based customized newscast has been cooking in the InfoLab at a US university for over three years

US university coding future of news

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 13 hours ago | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Personalized newscasts culled from the Web and presented by digital avatars. Baseball stories written by computers using raw data.


Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.


Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...


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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner set for maiden flight

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner jet takes to the skies for the first time Tuesday, in a critical milestone for the problem-plagued aircraft seen as key to the future of the US aerospace giant.


Anti-gravity treadmill: Therapy that's like a walk on the moon

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A treadmill developed at NASA Ames Research Center more than a decade ago for exercising in space has seen more athletes than astronauts lately.


Hollywood hopes an ensemble cast boosts Blu-ray (AP)

Hollywood hopes an ensemble cast boosts Blu-ray

Technology / Business

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below $100 this holiday season, customers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format. Even people who already own Blu-ray players ...


Globalive to launch mobile phone service in Canada

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Canadian government said Friday that it has approved a request from Egyptian-backed telecom Globalive Wireless Management Corp. to launch its mobile phone service in Canada.


Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties

Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

A new study may explain why the England soccer team keeps losing in penalty shootouts - and could help the team address the problem in time for the World Cup 2010. Research by the University of Exeter shows ...



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