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Swirl uses algorithms, metadata, and facial recognition software to distinguish digital images

Google image search gets a 'swirl'

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages.


Can thinking of a loved one reduce your pain?

Can thinking of a loved one reduce your pain?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "The very thought of you ... the mere idea of you" -- from the song "The Very Thought of You" by Ray Noble. Can the mere thought of your loved one reduce your pain?


Maya

New insights into the life of the Maya

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...


Google's "Street View" is created by still photographs taken by specially-equipped vehicles

Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View

Technology / Internet

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(AP) -- Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object - Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.


Scientists prepare the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2) "Poisk"

Rocket with new module for space station blasts off

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Soyuz rocket carrying a new Russian-made module for the International Space Station blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan, television pictures showed.


'Emotions increase or decrease pain': researchers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Getting a flu shot this fall? Canadians scientists have found that focusing on a pretty image could alleviate the sting of that vaccine. According to a new Université de Montréal study, published in the latest ...


Chart junk? How pictures may help make graphs better

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Those oft-maligned, and highly embellished, graphs and charts in USA Today and other media outlets may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs, according to new research from North Carolina ...


For improving early literacy, reading comics is no child's play

For improving early literacy, reading comics is no child's play

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Although comics have been published in newspapers since the 1890s, they still get no respect from some teachers and librarians, despite their current popularity among adults. But according to a University ...


US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel, EPIX, on Friday, letting subscribers watch films

Verizon launches TV-online movie channel

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel on Friday, letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.


NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis ...



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