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Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish

Touching research: To improve robots, researcher eyes jellyfish

Biology /

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biology professor Joseph Ayers is expanding his research on animals’ nervous systems that produced the RoboLobster and RoboLamprey to include a study on tactile sensory perception in jellyfish ...





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Google fined $14,300 a day in France over books (AP)

Google fined $14,300 a day in France over books

Technology / Internet

created 6 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s expansion into digital books breaks France's copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a euro10,000-a-day fine until it stops ...


Postural sway among abstinent alcoholics can be improved up to a point

Medicine & Health / Other

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Excessive sway during quiet standing is a common and significant consequence of chronic alcoholism, even after prolonged sobriety, and can lead to fall-related injury and even death. A new study of residual postural instability ...


Closing in on dark matter?

Physicists detect two candidate dark matter interactions, but say the data are not conclusive

Physics / General Physics

created 10 hours ago | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have spent decades searching for the elusive material known as dark matter, which is believed to make up 25 percent of the universe. On Thursday, Dec. 17, a team of physicists including ...


Talking aloud helps solve mathematical problems more quickly, according to a study

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 11 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Those students who think aloud while solving a mathematical problem can solve it faster and have more possibilities of finding the right solution that those who do not do it. Likewise, drawing or making a pictorial representation ...


Bourbon versus vodka: Bourbon hurts more the next day, performance is the same

Medicine & Health / Other

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many alcoholic beverages contain byproducts of the materials used in the fermenting process. These byproducts are called "congeners," complex organic molecules with toxic effects including acetone, acetaldehyde, fusel oil, ...


Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

Mobile tech 'can replace cheques'

Technology / Hi Tech

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- With cheques due to be phased out in the UK by 2018 new security technology developed at Oxford University could offer a replacement, allowing people a secure way to pay in almost any situation.


JooJoo

A new generation of computer tablets is on its way

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

I may have caught a glimpse of the future last week. In San Francisco, a startup company called Fusion Garage showed off the JooJoo, a touch-screen device that looks like the iPhone's big brother. The JooJoo ...


Final Blu-ray 3D Specification Announced

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) today announced the finalization and release of the "Blu-ray 3DTM" specification. The specification, which represents the work of the leading Hollywood studios and consumer electronic and ...


French technology upstart challenges Google

Technology / Internet

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American ...


IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.



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