News tagged with tool
Crows can use 'up to three tools'
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New experiments by Oxford University scientists reveal that New Caledonian crows can spontaneously use up to three tools in the correct sequence to achieve a goal, something never before observed ...
Endeavour's Orbiting Tool Bag Can Be Seen Using 10 x 50 Binoculars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Endeavor astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper's loss has turned out to be an amateur star gazers' event of the season. The $100,000 tool bag slipped out of her reach and floated into space while ...
New tool enables powerful data analysis
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful computing tool that allows scientists to extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex sets of raw data has been developed by scientists at University of California, ...
13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and ...
New invention could revolutionize how diseases are diagnosed
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An award-winning invention by Stanford doctoral students Richard Gaster and Drew Hall may change who diagnoses diseases ranging from flu to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The invention, ...
Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and ...
New methods are changing old materials
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A company that makes steel for bearings used in heavy trucks had a big problem. The trucks travel through harsh, perilous environments such as Siberia, and an unexpected bearing failure on ...
Wi-Spy 2.4x Spectrum Analyzer
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 02, 2008 |
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This all new version has both its hardware and software upgraded. The Wi-Spy is the world's smallest 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer that helps troubleshoot and analyze Wi-Fi networks for interference.
Nanotechnology gets a new light touch
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...
Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others ...
Invisibility visualized: German team unveils new software for rendering cloaked objects
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and curiosity seekers who want to know what a partially or completely cloaked object would look like in real life can now get their wish -- virtually. A team of researchers at the ...
Robots primed for 'are you being served' role in Arabic
Nov 03, 2009 |
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A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff in shopping malls.
Breath or urine analysis may detect cancer, diabetes
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A future sensor may take away a patient's breath while simultaneously determining whether the patient has breast cancer, lung cancer, diabetes or asthma. A University of Missouri researcher is developing ...
James Webb Space Telescope unfolds by animation (w/Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2009 |
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Although engineers, scientists and manufacturers are still in the process of building all of the instruments that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they had to figure out long ago, how it ...
How much risk can you handle? Making better investment decisions
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Many Americans make investment decisions with their retirement funds. But they don't always make informed judgments. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research introduces a new tool that investors can use to choose invest ...
