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Psychological headwind keeps women, minorities from sprinting ahead of their peers, study finds

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Let's say a white student and a black student both score 1020 on their SATs. They're performing right around the national average, so based on their scores it stands to reason they're both typical students ...





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New Cortex Study Uncovers How We Recognize What is True and What is False

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A recent neuroimaging study reveals that the ability to distinguish true from false in our daily lives involves two distinct processes. Previous research relied heavily on the premise that true and false statements are both ...


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Taser unveils multi-shot stun gun

Technology / Other

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (8) | comments 23

Manufacturers of the Taser stun gun on Monday unveiled a new handheld weapon on Monday which is capable of shocking three people without having to reload.


A Serious Question: Why Do We Laugh?

A Serious Question: Why Do We Laugh?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not surprisingly, Robert Lynch begins his research paper "It's Funny Because We Think It's True: Laughter is Augmented by Implicit Preferences" with a joke. Not his joke, but one taken from a ...


New site promotes journalists as individual brands

Technology / Internet

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- First came bylines for once-anonymous journalists. Then came their photos, particularly as news shifted online, and blogs began to carry mug shots of their writers.


Stem cells restore mobility in neck-injured rats (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first human embryonic stem cell treatment approved by the FDA for human testing has been shown to restore limb function in rats with neck spinal cord injuries - a finding that could expand the clinical ...


IBM spelled with 35 Xenon Atoms

IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team ...


'FEAsy' analyzes designs from raw sketches to speed parts creation (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Going back to the drawing board is much easier now that researchers have developed a new type of design program called FEAsy.


Capping A Two-Faced Particle Gives Duke Engineers Complete Control

Capping A Two-Faced Particle Gives Duke Engineers Complete Control (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drew fittingly from Roman mythology when they named a unique class of miniscule particles after the god Janus, who is usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions.


iCub, the Toddler Robot

iCub, the Toddler Robot (w/ Videos, Pictures)

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A little humanoid robot called iCub is learning how to think for itself, bringing the world of science fiction to reality. The major goal of the "RobotCub" project is to study how humans learn ...


Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.



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