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NOAA deploys new 'smart buoy' off Annapolis
Nov 11, 2009 |
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NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of "smart buoys" to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today. The buoy, located at the mouth of Severn River near Annapolis, Md., will be used by commercial ...
How to Measure What We Don't Know
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How do we discover new things? For scientists, observation and measurement are the main ways to extract information from Nature. Based on observations, scientists build models that, in turn, are used to make ...
Love at first aria
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2009 |
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A passion for opera starts with an initial explosive, emotional experience. This is followed by a gradual learning process over a number of years during which fans discover how to truly appreciate it fully. Through his observation ...
Study finds we are better able to detect racial tension in members of our racial group
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 22, 2008 |
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In March of 2008, in a speech addressing contemporary racial tensions in America, then-Senator Barack Obama suggested that there is a "chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races." Could this be true? Is it more ...
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In the eye of the storm: Why some people stayed behind
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. The 2005 storm breached every levee in New ...
Observers of first dates can predict outcome, study shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 30, 2009 |
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When it comes to assessing the romantic playing field -- who might be interested in whom -- men and women were shown to be equally good at gauging men's interest during an Indiana University study involving speed dating -- ...
Partial Solar Eclipse visible from the UK on the morning of 1st August
Jul 25, 2008 |
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On 1st August 2008 there will be a total eclipse of the Sun, visible from Canada, northern Greenland, Svalbard, the Barents Sea, Russia, Mongolia and China. From the whole of the British Isles observers will see a partial ...
New study shows bird population estimates are flawed
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Nov 21, 2008 |
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Most of what we know about bird populations stems from surveys conducted by professional biologists and amateur birdwatchers, but new research from North Carolina State University shows that the data from those surveys may ...
Walk this way? Masculine motion seems to come at you, while females walk away
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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You can tell a lot about people from the way they move alone: their gender, age, and even their mood, earlier studies have shown. Now, researchers reporting in the September 9th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press public ...
First impressions count when making personality judgments, new research shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 03, 2009 |
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First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at ...
Rich man, poor man: study shows body language can indicate socioeconomic status
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 04, 2009 |
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A new study in Psychological Science reveals that nonverbal cues can give away a person's socioeconomic status (SES). Volunteers whose parents were from upper SES backgrounds displayed more disengagement-related behaviors compar ...
Face recognition: nurture not nature
Aug 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered for the first time that our society can influence the way we recognise other people’s faces.
Return of the Leonids
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 05, 2008 |
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Astronomers from Caltech and NASA say a strong shower of Leonid meteors is coming in 2009. Their prediction follows an outburst on Nov. 17, 2008, that broke several years of "Leonid quiet" and heralds even ...
Studies' message to women: Keep your cool
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 02, 2008 |
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New Haven, Conn.-Whether you are running for president or looking for a clerical job, you cannot afford to get angry if you are a woman, Yale University psychologist Victoria Brescoll has found.
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