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Digging out from piles of sticky notes: Computer scientists devise ways to organize details of everyday life
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone has them -- little squares of colorful paper stuck on monitors, business cards strewn across desks, and to-do lists tucked away in pockets. These information scraps feature critical ...
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US university coding future of news
Technology / Computer Sciences
7 hours ago |
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Personalized newscasts culled from the Web and presented by digital avatars. Baseball stories written by computers using raw data.
Miami Herald asks online readers for donations
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(AP) -- The Miami Herald began Tuesday asking readers of its Web site to voluntarily pay for the privilege, a new wrinkle in newspapers' ongoing battle to increase revenue from their online operations.
Researchers reveal ancient origins of modern opossum
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
8 hours ago |
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A University of Florida researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of ...
Higher levels of protein hormone associated with lower risk of dementia, Alzheimer's disease
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Persons with higher levels of leptin, a protein hormone produced by fat cells and involved in the regulation of appetite, may have an associated reduced incidence of Alzheimer disease and dementia, according to a study in ...
NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
18 hours ago |
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NASA's current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific ...
Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images
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An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.
Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen
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There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all.
CERN Colour X-ray Technology Set to Save Lives
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Medical studies are soon to start with the MARS scanner, a revolutionary CT scanner developed by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The scanner, which incorporates technology developed at the world's ...
Smaller is better for finger sensitivity
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
19 hours ago |
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People who have smaller fingers have a finer sense of touch, according to new research in the Dec. 16 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This finding explains why women tend to have better tactile acuity than men, becaus ...
Greenland glaciers: What lies beneath
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
20 hours ago |
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Scientists who study the melting of Greenland's glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.
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