Dog owners often notice their pets watching televisions, computer screens and tablets. But what is going on in their pooch's head? Indeed, by tracking their vision using similar methods used on humans, research has found ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2016
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Nearly six decades after 46 people died when the Andrea Doria sank to the sea floor following a violent collision with another ocean liner south of Nantucket, Massachusetts, explorers are preparing to do what 16 people have ...
Archaeology
May 18, 2016
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Using animal tissue samples—store-bought pork loin and beef liver—researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated the possibility of real-time video-rate data transmission through tissue ...
General Physics
Apr 18, 2016
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Streaming video from Netflix, HBO and other leading services will no longer count toward data limits under T-Mobile's higher data plans.
Telecom
Nov 10, 2015
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The next generation of Ultra High Definition televisions (UHDTV) offers not only crystal-clear images, but also perfect sound. At the IBC trade show (September 11-15 in Amsterdam), Fraunhofer researchers are presenting a ...
Engineering
Sep 9, 2015
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(Phys.org)—For the past few years, physicists have been intrigued by a hypothetical system called a "quantum time crystal," which has the unusual property of exhibiting periodic motion in its ground state, which is its ...
Its backers say it does for music lovers what ultra high-definition television has done for couch potatoes.
Internet
Jun 26, 2015
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Google is willing to store and organize all of the world's digital photos and videos for free.
Internet
May 28, 2015
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The James Webb Space Telescope will be Earth's premier space observatory for the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. However its scientific mission will be limited. Unlike Hubble, which is nearing the ...
Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2015
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Night-time is no longer dark by definition in our country. 'Light pollution' is increasing by around 6% each year, while the ecological consequences are still largely unknown. 'Cloaked in darkness,' as Koert van Geffen puts ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2015
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