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New brain findings on dyslexic children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...


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Kepler Mission Update

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kepler completed another science data download over October 18-19. In this download, a month's worth of science data was transmitted through the NASA Deep Space Network and into the Science ...


Digital divide: Psychologists suggest ways to include the aging population in the tech revolution

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technology is no longer what it used to be: Computers have replaced typewriters and landlines are in rapid decline. Technological advances are being made every day, making many of our lives easier and allowing information ...


SEMATECH Reports New Approach to Simulate Transistor Noise

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program have developed a comprehensive transistor noise model capable of extracting defect characteristics from low frequency noise data in advanced gate stack transistors ...


Research continues on secure, mobile, quantum communications

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater.


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Seismic noise unearths lost hurricanes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Seismologists have found a new way to piece together the history of hurricanes in the North Atlantic—by looking back through records of the planet's seismic noise. It's an entirely new way to tap into the ...


Silicon Image Introduces New 18 MegaPixel Camera Processor IP Core

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Silicon Image today introduced the camerIC-18, the newest member of its family of camerIC camera processor IP cores.


Drivers of convertibles may be at risk for noise-induced hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drivers who frequently take to the road with the top down may be risking serious damage to their hearing, according to research presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) ...


Men nearly 3 times as likely to develop noise-induced hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A comprehensive study of the prevalence and risk factors for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) show that men, especially those who are white and married, are significantly more at risk than women, according to new research ...


Which Is King Of Clubs In The Noise Stakes?

Which Is King Of Clubs In The Noise Stakes?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New generation thin-faced titanium golf clubs can produce sound levels nearly twice as loud as traditional steel clubs when they hit a ball, according to new research.


Twinkling Nanostars Improve Optical Imaging of Tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and ...


Rising above the din: Attention makes sensory signals stand out amidst the background noise in the brain

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies studying visual attention ...


Noisy roads increase risk of high blood pressure

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Traffic noise raises blood pressure. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health have found that people exposed to high levels of noise from nearby roads are more likely to report suffer ...


Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs (AP)

Traffic noise could be ruining sex lives of frogs

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

(AP) -- Traffic noise could be ruining the sex lives of urban frogs by drowning out the seductive croaks of amorous males, an Australian researcher said Friday.


Doing what the brain does -- how computers learn to listen

Biology / Other

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- We see, hear and feel, and make sense of countless diverse, quickly changing stimuli in our environment seemingly without effort. However, doing what our brains do with ease is often an impossible task for ...




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