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Perfect Pitch: Language Wins Out Over Genetics
Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sinatra and Hendrix -- these and many other of the world's most famous musicians have had "perfect" or "absolute" pitch. The ability, defined as recognizing the pitch of a musical note ...
May 19, 2009 |
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Report outlines measures to cut carbon emissions from buildings
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report from the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University today outlines its strategy to transform the UK’s built environment.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Young children show improved verbal IQ
Canadian scientists who specialize in learning, memory and language in children have found exciting evidence that pre-schoolers can improve their verbal intelligence after only 20 days of classroom instruction using interactive, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Netflix price hike angers users, some drop plan
(AP) -- Some Netflix customers called it a slap in the face. Others a betrayal. Many threatened to drop the movie service.
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Summer's superfruit challenged: Latin American blueberries found to be 'extreme superfruits'
One of the treats of summer—fresh, antioxidant-rich blueberries—has new competition for the title of "superfruit."
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Google offers Street View art gallery tours (Update)
Art lovers will be able to stroll through some of the world's most famous galleries at the click of a mouse after Google put the venues online Tuesday using Street View technology.
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Kew botanists discover more than 250 new plant species in 250th anniversary year
Giant rainforest trees, rare and beautiful orchids, spectacular palms, minute fungi, wild coffees and an ancient aquatic plant are among more than 250 new plant and fungi species discovered and described by botanists from ...
Dec 22, 2009 |
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'Biotech violin' outdoes Stradivarius
At the 27th "Osnabrücker Baumpflegetagen," one of Germany’s most important annual conferences on all aspects of forest husbandry, Empa researcher Francis Schwarze’s "biotech violin" dared to go head to he ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Virtual music school becomes a reality
(PhysOrg.com) -- Students of popular musical instruments may soon be learning to play with the help of a new generation of intelligent, interactive computer programmes.
Mar 27, 2009 |
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In jazz improv, large portion of brain's prefrontal region 'takes 5' to let creativity flow
When John Coltrane was expanding the boundaries of the well-known song “My Favorite Things” at the Village Vanguard in May 1966, no one could have known what inspired him to take the musical turns he took. But imaging researchers ...
Feb 27, 2008 |
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Engineering a new way to see dinosaurs
With the eye of an electrical engineer, Nels Peterson is hoping to bring a new, high-tech tool to the field excavation of dinosaurs, a labor of picks, shovels and brushes that has changed little over the past ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 30, 2007 |
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