News tagged with visually challenged


MIT develops camera for the blind

Researchers develop camera for the blind

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Elizabeth Goldring smiles as she shows a visitor photos she's taken — and can see — with her blind eye.





Search results for visually challenged


Theory about long and short-term memory questioned

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The long-held theory that our brains use different mechanisms for forming long-term and short-term memories has been challenged by new research from UCL, published today in PNAS.


Video fingerprinting offers search solution

Video fingerprinting offers search solution

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is ...


Willis Tower

The greening of Willis Tower: Rooftop gardens part of plan to improve efficiency

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Growing up in the southwest suburbs, Sara Beardsley had a view of the Chicago skyline from her house. Today, she is transforming that skyline, but you won't find her work glorified on a $6 mug or gracing postcards.


Plentiful poinsettias without PGRs

Plentiful poinsettias without PGRs

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poinsettias can be a lucrative crop for ornamental plant growers, particularly during the Christmas season. In the temperate regions of the southern hemisphere, where poinsettias are grown for both export ...


Singapore scientists describe novel method for 3-D whole genome mapping research

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In this week's Nature, Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) scientists report a technological advance in the study of gene expression and regulation in the genome's three-dimensional folding and looping state through the de ...


Reflective film can boost profits for apple growers

Reflective film can boost profits for apple growers

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a research report published in a recent issue of HortTechnology, scientists Ignasi Iglesias and Simó Alegre examined the effects of covering orchard floors with reflective films on fruit color, fruit ...


Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain

Mobile microscopes illuminate the brain

Biology / Other

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to ...


The search -- computers dig deeper for meaning (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning. Europe is poised to reap the benefits of the new age of semantic search thanks to the work of European researchers.


Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life ...


Inconspicuous leaf beetles reveal environment's role in formation of new species

Inconspicuous leaf beetles reveal environment's role in formation of new species

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that ...



List of search results for visually challenged