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Efforts to save endangered languages

Efforts to save endangered languages

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- There are an estimated 6,500 languages in the world, with around fifty percent of them endangered and likely to cease to exist by 2100, but efforts are now being made to save them from extinction.


Nonverbal communication of race bias on TV influences viewers' own bias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Subtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers, according to research from Tufts University to appear in the December 18, 2009, issue of the journal Science.


New biosensors reveal workings of anti-psychotic drugs in the living brain

New biosensors reveal workings of anti-psychotic drugs in the living brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists have resolved a question about how a popular class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia works using biosensors that reveal previously hidden components of chemical communication in the brain.


Court to review employer access to worker messages

Technology / Other

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

(AP) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts.


Informal social networks better at encouraging Hispanics to prepare for disasters, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lay health teachers who engaged Hispanics inside their social networks were more effective than mailers at encouraging participants to prepare disaster plans.


AOptix Technologies and NuCrypt demonstrate physical-layer quantum encryption

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

AOptix Technologies, a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, and NuCrypt, a provider of technology for ultra-high security over optical communication networks, disclosed today the recent ...


Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...


Robots Reveal Insights into Evolution

Robots Reveal Insights into Evolution

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an ironic twist to our understanding of life, robots may offer a greater degree of realism for studying some of the intricacies of natural selection and evolution than real organisms offer. ...


Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum key distribution (QKD) could be the next commercial success of quantum physics, and a recent study has taken the field a step closer to this reality. Researchers from the University ...


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Google buys online collaboration startup

Technology / Internet

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Online collaboration startup AppJet said that Google is buying the San Francisco firm and merging its technology with an innovation Wave communication platform the Internet giant is creating.


Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality

Post-Quantum Correlations: Exploring the Limits of Quantum Nonlocality

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (22) | comments 20

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to nonlocal correlations, some correlations are more nonlocal than others. As the subject of study for several decades, nonlocal correlations (for example, quantum entanglement) ...


Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb

Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Quantum computing promises ultra-fast communication, computation and more powerful ways to encrypt sensitive information. But trying to use quantum states as carriers of information is an extremely delicate ...


Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal

Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The scientists anticipate their "LithoParticles" will have significant applications in photonics, optical communications and other areas.


Quantum communication through synergy

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When most people think of quantum communication, they think in terms of private communication channels - the ability to send messages without a third-party deciphering them. Indeed, quantum cryptography represents ...


Finding more in 'most': Scientific study of an everyday word

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

William Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about words, advised that "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." But the exact meaning of plain language isn't always easy to find. Even simple words like "most" and ...