News tagged with imagery
Understanding interaction in virtual worlds
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 23, 2009 |
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New cinema blockbuster, Avatar, leapt to the top of box office charts as soon as it came out — a stunning 3D realisation of an alien world. Our fascination with themes of escape to other fantastic places and the thrill of ...
Giant iceberg spotted south of Australia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 09, 2009 |
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A monster iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong island has been spotted drifting towards Australia in what scientists Wednesday called a once-in-a-century event.
Google unveils free GPS navigation for mobile phones
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Google unveiled a free navigation system for mobile phones on Wednesday in a move seen as a potential challenge to the makers of GPS navigation devices.
NASA satellite tracking Typhoon Lupit on a march toward the northern Philippines
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Three instruments on NASA's Aqua satellite captured views of Typhoon Lupit on its western track toward the Philippines and are helping forecasters get an idea of its strength and behavior. Lupit strengthened ...
Baja watching Tropical Storm Patricia in the latest GOES-11 satellite movie
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2009 |
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The nineteenth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific formed over this past weekend, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Patricia. The GOES-11 satellite captured Patricia from her "birth" several hundred miles south of ...
NASA's infrared satellite images reveal Ketsana's deadly western Pacific march
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2009 |
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NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Typhoon Ketsana during its lifetime and captured infrared imagery on a daily basis. The images showed high, cold, thunderstorm cloud tops (purple) as cold as -63F, as they dumped ...
NASA satellite sees Hurricane Jimena explode in strength over 4 days
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Hurricane Warnings are up for the southern Baja California, as powerful Category Four Hurricane Jimena threatens. Jimena developed over the weekend, and the infrared instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured ...
Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has a huge eye, about 45 miles ...
NASA sees some strong thunderstorms in Bill's center as he drenches eastern Canada
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Bill is still holding onto hurricane status near Nova Scotia, and will be bringing a lot of rain and heavy surf to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. Today, Sunday, August 23, NASA infrared ...
Computer simulations explain the limitations of working memory
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have constructed a mathematical activity model of the brain's frontal and parietal parts, to increase the understanding of the capacity of the working ...
'Mind's eye' influences visual perception
Biology /
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts ...
Highlight: California, Nevada Lakes Warming Rapidly
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new JPL study examines the impact recent variability in climate is having on the surface temperatures of large lakes in California and Nevada.
Tropical Storm Laurence set for second Australian landfall
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Tropical Storm Laurence tracked through Darwin Australia this weekend before sliding back into the Timor Sea and now Laurence is forecast to make a second landfall in Australia. Laurence is forecast to make ...
Breakthrough in monitoring tropical deforestation announced in Copenhagen
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Tropical forest destruction accounts for some 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But quantifying these emissions has not been easy, particularly for tropical nations. New technology, developed by a team ...
NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites see Nida fading, and 97W getting organized
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Tropical Depression Nida and System 97W in the Western Pacific Ocean and noticed that one is fading while the other is powering up.
