News tagged with objectivity

Warning! Collision imminent! The brain's quick interceptions help you navigate the world

Researchers at The Neuro and the University of Maryland have figured out the mathematical calculations that specific neurons employ in order to inform us of our distance from an object and the 3-D velocities of moving objects ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

2012 BX34: Behind the scenes in the discovery of a near Earth asteroid

Several blockbuster movies, television shows and commercials have depicted the discovery of an asteroid heading towards Earth and usually, somehow, impending doom is averted. But how do the discoveries of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Online game theft earns real-world conviction

(AP) -- The amulet and mask were a 13-year-old boy's virtual possessions in an online fantasy game. In the real world, he was beaten and threaten with a knife to give them up.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

NASA launching multi-player game on Facebook

NASA is seeking friends for a new game the US space agency launched on Facebook.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Babies are born with 'intuitive physics' knowledge, researcher says

While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of "intuitive physics."

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Earthly machine recreates star's sizzling-hot surface

Since we can't go to the stars yet, let's bring the stars to us. In a giant X-ray-producing facility, astronomers and plasma physicists have heated a cigar-sized sample of gas to over 17,000 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Astronomers release unprecedented data set on celestial objects that brighten and dim

Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars and other ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Platform safety on the radar for researchers

Systems used to detect aircraft and ships could soon be fitted in train stations to quickly identify objects – or even people – that have fallen on the tracks, preventing serious accidents and reducing ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stellar discovery

On August 24, astrophysicist Peter Nugent was playing a little catch-up. Nugent, an adjunct professor at Berkeley and group leader of the Computational Cosmology Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Supernova alphabet soup

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the sole body responsible for the official naming of astronomical objects. So if you have a problem with the way things in the Universe are named, you now know ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Developing artificial intelligence systems that can interpret images

Like many kids, Antonio Torralba began playing around with computers when he was 13 years old. Unlike many of his friends, though, he was not playing video games, but writing his own artificial intelligence ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

UIUC team will show can't-tell photo inserts at Siggraph (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Visitors to this month's Siggraph Asia conference on computer graphics from December 12 to 15 will witness a presentation from a team at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign on how ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

How bats 'hear' objects in their path

(PhysOrg.com) -- By placing real and virtual objects in the flight paths of bats, scientists at the Universities of Bristol and Munich have shed new light on how echolocation works.  Their research is ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Personal electronics' next revolution: Home printers that make 3-D objects

Just imagine: Instead of sending Grandma a holiday photo of the family for her fridge, you call up the image on your computer monitor, click "print," and your printer produces a three-dimensional plastic model ready for hanging ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Are electron tweezers possible? Apparently so

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not to pick up electrons, but tweezers made of electrons. A recent paper by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Virginia (UVA) demonstrates that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast