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Engineering images bring life to submerged city

(PhysOrg.com) -- Photo-realistic 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece have earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Spaceborne precipitation radar ships from Japan to U.S.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese scientists and engineers have completed construction on a new instrument designed to take 3-D measurements of the shapes, sizes and other physical characteristics of both raindrops ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New views show old NASA Mars landers

(PhysOrg.com) -- The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that includes the first color image from orbit showing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

New study confirms that mom's love good for child's brain

School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Photo from NASA Mars orbiter shows wind's handiwork

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

JQI cool nano loudspeakers could makes for better MRIs, quantum computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Harvard University has developed a theory describing how to both detect weak ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

fMRI brain imaging illuminates magic mushrooms' psychedelic effects

Brain scans of people under the influence of the psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, have given scientists the most detailed picture to date of how psychedelic drugs work. The findings of two studies being ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Brain MRIs may provide an early diagnostic marker for dyslexia

Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The quantifier: Building software that interprets medical images

Polina Golland’s parents tell the story that, sometime in the early 1980s, when Polina was in junior high, she announced that she wanted to go to MIT. That’s an unusual plan for any 13- or 14-year-old to hatch independently, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

SWI/SNF protein complex plays role in suppressing pancreatic tumors: study

A well-known protein complex responsible for controlling how DNA is expressed plays a previously unsuspected role in preventing pancreatic cancer, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Decoding corn defenses for improved pest resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clearer picture of corn's biochemical responses to insect and fungal attacks is emerging, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies in Gainesville, Fla.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facing complexity in the left brain/right brain paradigm

The left brain/right brain dichotomy has been prominent on the pop psychology scene since Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry broached the subject in the 1960s. The left is analytical while the right is creative, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Meteorite shockwaves trigger dust avalanches on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dust avalanches around impact craters on Mars appear to be the result of the shock wave preceding the actual impact, according to a study led by an undergraduate student at the UA.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

CNST collaboration demonstrates nanoscale focused ion beam employing laser-cooled lithium atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and FEI Company have adapted a commercial focused ion beam (FIB) column to use photoionized laser-cooled lithium atoms as an ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Team creates computerized method for matching images in photos, paintings, sketches

Computers can mimic the human ability to find visually similar images, such as photographs of a fountain in summer and in winter, or a photograph and a painting of the same cathedral, by using a technique that analyzes the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast