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Speed limit on babies' vision

Babies have far less ability to recognize rapidly changing images than adults, according to research from the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The results show that while infants can perceive flicker or movement, they ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

SolarWinds shares climb during first trading day

(AP) -- Shares of SolarWinds Inc. climbed Wednesday during the network management software maker's first day of trading, marking the latest flicker of life in an IPO market that has barely registered a pulse this year.

Technology / Business

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Gene therapy for inherited blindness succeeds in patients' other eye

Gene therapy for congenital blindness has taken another step forward, as researchers further improved vision in three adult patients previously treated in one eye. After receiving the same treatment in their ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research links 'brain waves' to cognition, attention and diagnosing disorders

Professor Jason Mattingley, Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at The University of Queensland, released his findings into ‘brain waves' at the Australian Neuroscience Society's (ANS) annual conference last week. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemistry in schools comes alive through smartphones

In the modern classroom, mobile phones can be the bane of teachers’ lives. An interactive poster produced by Cambridge to promote chemistry in schools is attempting to reverse this, by harnessing smartphone ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simpler times: Did an earlier genetic molecule predate DNA and RNA?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the chemistry of the living world, a pair of nucleic acids—DNA and RNA—reign supreme. As carrier molecules of the genetic code, they provide all organisms with a mechanism for ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 117 | with audio podcast

Can Earth-sized planets survive their star's expansion?

Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swelled up ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Physicists’ ‘light from darkness’ breakthrough named a top 2011 discovery

(PhysOrg.com) -- They shook light from darkness. They coaxed something out of what we normally think of as nothing—the vacuum of space. And now their work has been named one of the top 10 breakthroughs ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 11

Research focuses on implementing radio frequency MEMS resonators on a silicon chip

Semiconductor Research Corporation and Cornell University researchers are working to advance on-chip silicon development to enable new generations of smaller and more sophisticated mobile electronic devices.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research distinguishes roles of conscious and subconscious awareness

What distinguishes information processing with conscious awareness from processing occurring without awareness? And, is there any role for conscious awareness in information processing, or is it just a byproduct, like the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Beacons in space

Pulsars are among the most exotic objects in the universe. They resemble gigantic atomic nuclei and rotate around their own axis at an incredible speed. These cosmic beacons mark the end of massive suns. Theoretically ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

Biography of a star

Nuclear fusion is a virtually inexhaustible source of energy, and for decades now scientists have been working on exploiting it. A process that continues to present difficulties in laboratories on Earth has ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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


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