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Rebuilding the head of an armoured dinosaur (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta-led research team has taken a rare look inside the skull of a dinosaur and come away with unprecedented details on the brain and nasal passages of the 72 million year ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists Make Temperature-Regulating Coffee Mug

(PhysOrg.com) -- A well-insulated mug may keep your coffee somewhat warm, but now scientists have designed a high-tech mug that can keep drinks hot or cold at the perfect temperature for up to half an hour. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 17 weblog

You can look -- but don't touch

Consumers are often told that if they break an item, they buy it. But a new study suggests that if they just touch an item for more than a few seconds, they may also end up buying it.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Scientists keep their eyes on peripheral vision

(Medical Xpress) -- Two USC scientists are bringing peripheral vision into focus, showing that the way the brain sharpens its attention while the eyes are in motion leads to false assumptions about how objects ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Obama campaign tweets Black Friday deals

As shoppers snapped up Black Friday deals around the United States, US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign also jumped into the fray, offering discounts on 2012 merchandise.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Weight of object not an issue when determining left or right-handedness

More than 90 per cent of the world’s population exhibit a strong preference for using their right hand, as opposed to their left, for grasping and lifting everything from car keys to coffee mugs. The cause of this near-global ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Smarter robot arms (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A combination of two algorithms developed at MIT allows autonomous robots to execute tasks much more efficiently — and move more predictably.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hand prosthetic gives teen new independence

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 15 year old British girl, Chloe Holmes, has been in the news as being among the youngest in Europe to wear a special prosthetic hand with state of the art bionic fingers. The bionic digits ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Obama 2012 campaign to go beyond email, text

(AP) -- Call him the Digital Candidate: President Barack Obama is asking supporters to use Facebook to declare "I'm In!" for his re-election campaign and is using Twitter to personally blast out messages ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

BaBar researchers announce first evidence of predicted particle subtype

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data collected by the BaBar experiment during its final months of operation in 2008 point to a new member of the "bottomonium" family of subatomic particles. BaBar collaboration member and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Unhealthy snacks play on our unconscious

Chances are small that young people will exchange the Mars bar or bag of chips in their hands for an apple or an orange. Even when they know that fruit is healthier and this is widely reported. That unhealthy snacks exert ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A toast to history: 500 years of wine-drinking cups mark social shifts in ancient Greece

How commonly used items – like wine drinking cups – change through time can tell us a lot about those times, according to University of Cincinnati research to be presented Jan. 7 by Kathleen Lynch, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

BendDesk introduced: the desk that is a touch screen (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research project from the RWTH Aachen University Media Computing Group and Department of Work and Cognitive Psychology in Germany is developing a desk in which the entire curved surface ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report


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