News tagged with physical intelligence


Necessity is the mother of invention for clever birds (w/Videos)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 4

Researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London have found that rooks, a member of the crow family, are capable of using and making tools, modifying them to make them work and using two tools ...





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Blood test that provides prior blood sugar average now recommended for diabetes screening, diagnosis (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an annual supplement to the journal Diabetes Care, published Dec. 29 by the American Diabetes Association, the A1C test is given a prominent role in the 2010 guidelines for diabetes screening, diagnosis ...


COMPASS points to weight loss

Medicine & Health / Health

created 20 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are recruiting families with overweight children for a study to help those kids, and their parents, lose weight. The two-year study, ...


Better airport scanners delayed by privacy fears (AP)

Better airport scanners delayed by privacy fears

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

(AP) -- High-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner have been installed in only a small number of airports around the world, in large part because ...


Overweight men at higher risk of heart attack, stroke, premature death

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Overweight or obese middle-aged men are at a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and premature death — even if they don’t have the metabolic syndrome, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of ...


New Method Tests Severity of Key Citrus Virus

New Method Tests Severity of Key Citrus Virus

Biology / Other

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new rapid way to test severity of the devastating citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in citrus trees has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Parlier, Calif. The ...


Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say

Climate change puts ecosystems on the run, researchers say

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (20) | comments 42

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming is causing habitats to move across the landscape. Can the creatures living there keep up? If they can't, some species may die out, researchers say.


Google sharpens aim on mobile marketing with AdMob

Technology / Internet

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Four years ago, Omar Hamoui was just another ineffectual entrepreneur trying to spruce up his resume in graduate school. Now, he's poised to become Google Inc.'s newest weapon as the company aims to extend its dominance ...


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Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales

Technology / Internet

created Dec 27, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

On Christmas Day customers bought more electronic books than hard-copy books on Internet retail giant Amazon.com, the company said in a statement Saturday.


What connects the elderly and sports people? Smart sensor technology

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Innovative smart sensing devices promise to boost mobility and quality of life for the elderly, reduce healthcare costs and even give sports people an edge through more effective training.


Keck Telescopes Take Deeper Look at Planetary Nurseries

Keck Telescopes Take Deeper Look at Planetary Nurseries

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have peered far into a young planetary system, giving an unprecedented view of dust and gas that might eventually form planets similar to Jupiter, ...



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