News tagged with real
How a simple mathematic formula is starting to explain the bizarre prevalence of altruism in society
Jul 18, 2008 |
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Why do humans cooperate in things as diverse as environment conservation or the creation of fairer societies, even when they don’t receive anything in exchange or, worst, they might even be penalized?
Sleight of hand and sense of self
Aug 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An illusion that tricks people into believing a rubber hand belongs to them isn’t all in the mind, Oxford University researchers have found. They have observed a physical response as well, ...
Subprime lending not main trigger of real estate bubble
Jul 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Critics often point to subprime mortgage lending – the funding of home loans to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit – as the culprit in the unsustainable boom in U.S. home prices that eventually derailed ...
Augmented Reality: Science Fiction or Reality? (w/ Video)
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer graphics have come a long way since the birth of Atari Games over 30 years ago. Today, computer graphics seem very real and some day researchers will pull graphics out of your television ...
Hybrid Human Faces Could Populate Google Street View
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 30, 2008 |
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Due to privacy concerns, Google has been blurring the faces of people caught on Google Street View cameras. But rather than blurring people's faces and diminishing the reality of the scene, researchers have ...
Observing the Quantum Hall Effect in 'Real' Space
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When water transforms into steam, or magnetized iron changes to demagnetized iron, Katsushi Hashimoto explains to PhysOrg.com, a phase transition is taking place: “Classical phase transitions…often share ...
Scientists watch membrane fission in real time
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved one of biology's neatest little tricks: they have discovered how a cell's outer membrane pinches a little pouch from itself to bring molecules outside the cell inside—without ...
Racial tension in a 'split-second'
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Interracial and interethnic interactions can often be awkward and stressful for members of both majority and minority groups. People bring certain expectations to their interactions with members of different groups—they often ...
Study separates russian flat tax myth and fact
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Proponents of a flat rate income tax often point to Russia's 2001 switch to a 13 percent flat tax as nothing short of an economic miracle.
Molecules in the spotlight
Dec 12, 2008 |
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A novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. Results ...
New research shows that your looks, creditworthiness may go hand in hand
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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New research suggests that a person's appearance may play a role in whether they are deemed trustworthy by financial lenders. The study is summarized in a working paper by Jefferson Duarte at Rice University's ...
Virtual applications reach out to real world
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a series of very clever tools to break through the bottlenecks stalling the widespread adoption of virtual reality. But the compelling applications designed for the system ...
Real pilots and 'virtual flyers' go head-to-head
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stunt pilots have raced against computer-generated opponents for the first time — in a contest that combines the real and the 'virtual' at 250 miles per hour.
Maths model helps to unravel relationship between nutrients and biodiversity
Sep 10, 2008 |
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The level of nutrients in soil determines how many different kinds of plants and trees can thrive in an ecosystem, according to new research published by biologists and mathematicians today (10 September) in Nature.
LendingTree: Google to compete on loan referrals
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- LendingTree, which allows prospective borrowers to get quick offers from multiple lenders, claims Google is about to get into the same business.
