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'Tetris' still a videogame star at age 25

It was spring in what was then the Soviet Union when a mathematician in Moscow with a penchant for puzzles created a "Tetris" computer game still going strong 25 years later.

Technology / Software

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading

Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the first alphabetic ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1




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NFC aid for the visually and hearing impaired

As the proportion of senior citizens grows, their special needs are gaining momentum. Human eyesight, for example, weakens with age. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has been developing new NFC-based applications ...

Technology / Engineering

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

Tougher laws to smash green smoke screens

Law reform and tougher legal sanctions to stop greenwashing are critical, according to a leading intellectual property expert from The Australian National University.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New Nokia phone no standout, but worth a look

The first of Nokia's new generation of smartphones isn't flashy and certainly isn't an iPhone killer. But it's a nice device, and at $40 with a two-year contract, a bargain.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 4

SOPA, PROTECT IP will stifle creativity and diminish free speech, says WUSTL experts

Wikipedia and other sites go dark to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act under consideration in Congress. Three law professors from Washington University in St. Louis, Kevin Collins, Gregory Magarian ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 36

New research to enhance speech recognition technology

New research is hoping to understand how the human brain hears sound to help develop improved hearing aids and automatic speech recognition systems.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Trimming time in the stacks

A sophisticated text-analyzing tool developed by a UC Berkeley graduate student could speed literary searches for humanities scholars and other researchers.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New discovery could lead to treatment for Angelman syndrome

Results of a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may help pave the way to a treatment for a neurogenetic disorder often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy or autism.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Devastating 'founder effect' genetic disorder raced to defective mitochondria in cerebellar neurons

Defective mitochondria, the energy-producing powerhouses of the cell, trigger an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that first shows itself in toddlers just as they are beginning to walk, Canadian scientists reported at ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do we learn to speak and read?

Do you remember how you learned to speak? Most people do not recall learning how to talk, or know how it is that they can understand others. The process involves a complex coordination of moving air from our ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Newspapers lose their balance on climate coverage

The first of a two-part analysis of Australian press coverage of climate change, A Sceptical Climate, is based on a comprehensive review of 3971 media articles published in ten Australian newspapers on the topic of climate ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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