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Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways

Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways (w/ Video)

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Our cells are more like us than we may think. They're sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether ...


A faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered

A faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Next time you spy the Big Dipper, keep in mind that there is another star, invisible to the unaided eye, contributing to this constellation.


A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields

A new kind of micro-mobility: Moving tiny particles using magnetic fields (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new microscopic system devised by researchers in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering could provide a novel method for moving tiny objects inside a microfluidic chip, and ...


How do we understand written language?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...


Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

Inside the dark heart of the Eagle

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Herschel has peered inside an unseen stellar nursery and revealed surprising amounts of activity. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into filaments of dust stretching ...


Slam dunk for future smart robots

Slam dunk for future smart robots

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- 'What does the world look like' and 'where am I' are two questions robots must solve if they are to act autonomously in an unknown environment. Work by European researchers will help future ...


Sign language

Sign language puzzle solved

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, ...


Computing with a wave of the hand

Computing with a wave of the hand (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The iPhone’s familiar touch screen display uses capacitive sensing, where the proximity of a finger disrupts the electrical connection between sensors in the screen. A competing approach, ...


Learning styles debunked

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you've pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And you're not alone— for ...


Herschel Space Telescope uncovers the sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background

Herschel Space Telescope uncovers the sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 19 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using first observations with the PACS Instrument on board ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutions have ...



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