 Humans Do Not Understand Mirror Reflections, Say Researchers December 21, 2005 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 156 vote(s)
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Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have found that people still find it difficult to understand how mirrors work.
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 Motorola Debuts First Ever Nano Emissive Flat Screen Display Prototype May 09, 2005 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Building Upon Carbon Nanotube Technology, Motorola Prepares to Revolutionize the Flat Panel Display Industry
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A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels July 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 135 vote(s)
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Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath ... | |
 World's First Built-In Wi-Fi -Enabled Digital Cameras September 02, 2005 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Nikon is redefining the digital camera shooting experience with the announcement of two new revolutionary Wi-Fi enabled models. The Coolpix P1 and P2 are the world's first built-in Wi-Fi-enabled (IEEE802.11b/g) ... | |
 Artists 'draw on air' to create 3D illustrations September 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 125 vote(s)
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By putting on a virtual reality mask, holding a stylus in one hand and a tracking device in the other, an artist can draw 3D objects in the air with unprecedented precision. This new system is called “Drawing ... | |
Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners April 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 191 vote(s)
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Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology ... | |
 'The Matrix' is a step closer to reality; Neuroscientists break code on sight November 04, 2005 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 177 vote(s)
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In the sci-fi movie "The Matrix," a cable running from a computer into Neo's brain writes in visual perceptions, and Neo's brain can manipulate the computer-created world. In reality, scientists cannot interact ... | |
No strong link seen between violent video games and aggression August 11, 2005 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 192 vote(s)
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Results from the first long-term study of online videogame playing may be surprising.
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 A Two-Time Universe? Physicist Explores How Second Dimension of Time Could Unify Physics Laws May 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 330 vote(s)
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For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics — the equations describing matter, gravity ... | |
 Self cleaning Lotus leaf imitated in plastic by using a femtosecond laser January 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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A plastic cup that can be reused without washing it, simply because contamination has no chance to stick to the surface? A self-cleaning surface like that of the leaf of a Lotus plant is ideal for many applications ... | |
 Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why May 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 288 vote(s)
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Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in ... | |
New ‘Nuclear Battery’ Runs 10 Years, 10 Times More Powerful May 12, 2005 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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A battery with a lifespan measured in decades is in development at the University of Rochester, as scientists demonstrate a new fabrication method that in its roughest form is already 10 times more efficient than current ... | |
 Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- on One Photon January 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 182 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image ... | |
LSU professor resolves Einstein's twin paradox February 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 374 vote(s)
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Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics. | |
 Scientists Predict How to Detect a Fourth Dimension of Space May 25, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 307 vote(s)
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Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory ... | |
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