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Student-Made 'Sustain-a-Bear' Puts Green Spin on Timeless Toy

Student-Made 'Sustain-a-Bear' Puts Green Spin on Timeless Toy

Technology / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Most teddy bears, regretfully, face a lonesome retirement once their owners grow up or move on.


Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostheses for paralysed patients, communication with patients who have lost all capacity for normal communication - the hopes for modern brain research are high. However, such brain-machine ...


Do computers understand art?

Do computers understand art?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition ...


Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

Financial instruments could be spiked with unfindable risks

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 33

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a result that may have implications for financial regulation, researchers from computer science and economics have revealed potentially impenetrable problems with the pricing of financial ...


'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message ...


French scientist Herwan Amire shows two pink winkle in Xelha's Cove,  south of Cancun

Mexico's conch shells yield clues into effects of warming

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Divers plumb the turquoise depths of ocean waters some 100 kilometers south of this vacation paradise, in search of the distinctive queen conch shell prized by vacationers and souvenir-seekers.


The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) building in Washington

FTC looking into Google's AdMob acquisition

Technology / Internet

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Web search and advertising giant Google said Wednesday that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking more information about its proposed purchase of mobile advertising company AdMob.


Mystery of golden ratio explained

Researcher explains mystery of golden ratio

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (21) | comments 7

The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel ...


NORAD is tracking Santa Claus's progress

Follow Santa Claus, courtesy Google and NORAD

Technology / Internet

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Santa Claus is coming to your town -- and NORAD is tracking him as he drops off presents around the world. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, which monitors the North American airspace, on Thursday ...


Twin study identifies factors associated with skin aging

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smoking, being heavier, not using sunscreen and having had skin cancer appear to be associated with sun damage and aging of skin on the face, according to report based on a study of twins in the December issue of Archives of ...



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