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
Feb 07, 2012 |
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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
Feb 02, 2012 |
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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.
Jan 31, 2012 |
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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
Jan 30, 2012 |
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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
Jan 24, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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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, ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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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
Dec 29, 2011 |
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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
Dec 12, 2011 |
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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
Dec 08, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 24, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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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 ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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