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Translate this: 'cognition-strength interfaces'

Translate this: 'cognition-strength interfaces'

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A highly ambitious European project used basic cognitive function, eye-tracking and keystroke logging as the starting point for the study of human-computer interaction for translation. It ...





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NY Times selling radio station for 45 mln dlrs

Technology / Business

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The New York Times Co., which has been seeking to raise cash to pay down its debt, announced plans on Tuesday to sell a New York City radio station for 45 million dollars.


Peptides-on-demand: Researcher's radical new green chemistry makes the impossible possible

Peptides-on-demand: Researcher's radical new green chemistry makes the impossible possible

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- McGill University chemistry professor Chao-Jun (C.J.) Li is known as one of the world leading pioneers in green chemistry, an entirely new approach to the science which eschews the use of ...


Thinking crickets -- 'cognitive' processes underlie memory recall in crickets

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Activation of two different kinds of neurons is necessary for appetitive and aversive memory recall in crickets. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology blocked octopaminergic (OA-ergic) and dopaminergic (DA-er ...


Baroque classical music in the reading room may improve mood and productivity

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Baroque classical music in the reading room can help improve radiologists work lives, potentially improving diagnostic efficiency and accuracy, according to a study performed by researchers at the University of Maryland in ...


Ion trap quantum computing

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Right now, classical computers are faster than quantum computers,” René Stock tells PhysOrg.com. “The goal of quantum computing is to eventually speed up the time scale of solving certain important proble ...


Physicists make discovery in quantum mechanics

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 49

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit. The finding is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature.


Physicists Propose Method for Entangling Moving Material Particles

Physicists Propose Method for Entangling Moving Material Particles

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- When physicists experiment with quantum entanglement, they usually work with photons, the intangible particles of light. In the past few years, however, scientists have begun to broaden their ...


Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos

Scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 1

Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.


Spacetime May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale

Spacetime May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (54) | comments 40

(PhysOrg.com) -- Usually, we think of spacetime as being four-dimensional, with three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. However, this Euclidean perspective is just one of many possible multi-dimensional ...


It's Easier to Observe the Failure of Local Realism than Previously Thought

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (41) | comments 199

(PhysOrg.com) -- Local realism is something we live with every day, even if we don’t realize it. The principle of local realism combines two assumptions: locality and realism. Locality says that distant objects cannot directly ...



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