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The 2009 Ig Nobel prizewinners
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Ig Nobels are a highlight of the scientific calendar and award research that makes people laugh as well as think. The awards were presented last week at Harvard University in the U.S, ...
MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taking pictures of the earth from space, we assume that a great deal of money has to be spent on high-tech equipment and complex vehicles to get the camera up there. But, ...
Hundreds of dinosaur nests found in India
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists have discovered hundreds of fossilized nests each containing clutches of eight dinosaur eggs. The eggs were located in sand banks in Tamil Nadu in Southern India.
The Audi e-tron concept electric car
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Audi has unveiled its new electric car concept, the Audi e-tron at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany.
Polaroid PoGo brings instant printing to the digital age
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Polaroid, founded in 1937 by American physicist Edwin H. Land, invented instant photographic printing. Its first instant film camera went on sale in November 1948, but in February 2008 the ...
Symmetrical brains can be an advantage
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many studies have found widespread asymmetry in the brains of different species, including humans, and most have assumed asymmetry is advantageous. A new paper, published in the Proceedings of ...
Study: Why the best soccer teams don't always win
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study, published in the October edition of the Journal of Applied Statistics, looked at soccer as being an experiment to determine which of two teams is superior, but their analys ...
GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.
Dell's Latitude Z introduces wireless charging (w/ Video)
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dell has introduced its new ultra-thin Latitude Z laptop with the world's first wireless laptop battery charger.
CIA's 'Enhanced Interrogation' Techniques Were Counterproductive
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The author of a new report suggests the belief that harsh interrogation and torture techniques are effective is a form of folk neuroscience that is not supported by scientific evidence, and does not fit with ...
Link Between Antidepressants and Birth Defect
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Denmark have studied almost half a million Danish children and found a slightly higher rate of septal heart abnormalities in babies whose mothers took an SSRI antidepressant ...
300 mph: New Land Speed Record for a Hydrogen Powered Vehicle
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the complaints that many have with regard to vehicles powered by alternative energy is the fact that they don't really have a lot of speed. However, this does not necessarily have to ...
Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...
When a Twin is not a Twin
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A woman in Fort Worth, Arkansas is carrying two babies that may not be twins, and which may have been conceived two and a half weeks apart. The two babies may be the result of superfetation, a rare phenomenon ...
Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A law has been proposed in France that would see digitally enhanced images carry a warning to viewers that the image has been retouched to change the physical appearance of a person. The proposed ...
