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Will this trip be exciting? Consumers respond best to vacation ads that match current emotions

Most of us won't respond to the call of adventure while soaking in a relaxing bath. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, we're more likely to book a weekend at a spa.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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New lab turns SD gold town into scientific hub

(AP) — Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Google adds Zagat reviews to push local search (Update)

Google on Wednesday added the Zagat restaurant review content to its Google+ social network, as it rolled out a new local search feature that takes on services such as Yelp.

Technology / Internet

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Tool-wielding robots crawl in bodies for surgery

Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists store short movies in an atomic vapor

The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous---grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a few examples. And now light signals can be stored ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Mathematicians can conjure matter waves inside an invisible hat

Invisibility, once the subject of magic or legend, is slowly becoming reality. Over the past five years mathematicians and other scientists have been working on devices that enable invisibility cloaks – ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Splitting the SKA - why a dual-site setup is a win for everyone

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a concept that's been slowly growing and evolving since 1991. But recently this ambitious project took a giant leap towards reality with the announcement of a SKA site decision.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Looking out for the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

A new genetic study has shed light on how the newly discovered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey evolved.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Crowding causes cells to produce an orderly matrix of molecules

When researchers conduct experiments on the way cells grow and respond to outside cues, they tend to use solutions that are much more dilute than the crowded environments found inside living cells. Now, new ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A wake-up call for manufacturing

(Phys.org) -- U.S. factories produce about 75 percent of what the country consumes, but the right decisions by both business and political leaders could push that to 95 percent, say University of Michigan researchers.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4


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