News tagged with bump
Measuring the 'Colbert Bump'
Aug 13, 2008 |
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Democratic politicians receive a 40% increase in contributions in the 30 days after appearing on the comedy cable show The Colbert Report. In contrast, their Republican counterparts essentially gain nothing. These findings ...
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New iPhone app works by bump, not touch
Apr 08, 2009 |
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It is somehow fitting that University of Chicago business school students would develop an iPhone app that works by bump, not touch, on Apple's famed screen. After all, it was a former U of C professor, President Barack ...
A 'cloaking device' -- it's all done with mirrors
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, ...
Wolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity?
Deadly Mine 'Bump' was Recorded as Seismic Event
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2007 |
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The University of Utah Seismograph Stations recorded a magnitude-1.6 seismic event at the time of a Thursday, Aug. 16 "bump" that killed and injured rescuers at a Utah coal mine where six miners were trapped by an Aug. 6 ...
Raindrops keep falling on your head -- but they burst first
Jul 20, 2009 |
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For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that raindrops start as micro-droplets that then gather together in clouds with their neighbours to become bigger droplets.
The Physics Of A Bump In A Rug
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Scientists often have to make sacrifices for their work. Physicist Dominic Vella chopped his bathroom rug into strips, and L. Mahadevan's coauthor ran off with his bookshelf. With these sacrifices, these two ...
Alzheimer's molecule is a smart speed bump on the nerve-cell transport highway
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that proteins carrying chemical cargo in nerve cells react differently when exposed to the tau protein, which plays an important ...
Next generation cloaking device demonstrated
Jan 15, 2009 |
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A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype ...
Probing question: What is 'Talk and Die' Syndrome?
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Ah, summer! Season of baseball, bike rides, barbecues -- and head injuries. There’s nothing like warm weather to get people outside and active, and nothing like activity to fill up an emergency room.
Effects of disease severity on autobiographical memory in semantic dementia revealed in new study
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2009 |
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In a study conducted by the Laboratory of Neuropsychology of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie and published by Elsevier in the April 2009 issue of Cortex, researchers studied for the first time autobiographical memory ...
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