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Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 4

Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.


Male and female shopping strategies show evolution at work in the mall

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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Male and female shopping styles are in our genes---and we can look to evolution for the reason. Daniel Kruger, research faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, says it's perfectly natural that men often ...


Researchers take part in DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Researchers plan DNA sequencing for entire Pacific island

Biology / Plants & Animals

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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida researchers are collecting marine invertebrates on the French Polynesian island of Moorea as part of a massive effort to inventory the DNA sequence of every living species ...


Santa's Sleigh: NC State Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick?s Christmas Magic

Santa's Sleigh: Researcher Explains Science Behind St. Nick's Christmas Magic

Other Sciences / Other

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Santa skeptics have long considered St. Nick’s ability to deliver toys to the world’s good girls and boys in the course of one night a scientific impossibility. But new research shows that ...


Dating the Bronze Age

Dating the Bronze Age

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) research has shown that an area of desert in north-western China was once a thriving Bronze Age manufacturing and agricultural site. The new findings ...


Strong regional climatic fluctuations in the tropics

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Climatic fluctuations close to the equator show a different pattern to climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic. In the tropics distinct 11500 year fluctuations between wet and dry periods can be clearly identified which ...


UGA researchers lead team in discovery involving devastating freshwater fish parasite, 'Ich'

Discovery opens new avenues for treating devastating freshwater fish parasite, 'Ich'

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine have made an "unexpected" dual discovery that could open new avenues for treating Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, or "Ich", a devastating ...


Lizards change their diet to avoid predators

Lizards change their diet to avoid predators

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis, a lizard species from the Ne ...


Some birds listen, instead of look, for mates

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Looks can be deceiving, but certain bird species have figured out that a voice can tell them most of what they need to know to find the right mate.


Researchers Identify Key Molecules in Photosynthesis

Researchers Identify Key Molecules in Photosynthesis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemistry professor Harry Frank led an international group of researchers that identified the molecules in algae which direct the organisms to convert sunlight into oxygen. The findings may ...



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