News tagged with facial proportions

Too scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1




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New app uses mathematical theory to match your face to celebrities' faces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Are you as dashing as George Clooney, or as glamorous as Angelina Jolie? Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London have developed an app that uses a mathematical formula to analyse your ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mask-bot: A robot with a human face

Robotics researchers in Munich, Germany, have joined forces with Japanese scientists to develop an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New CPR technique for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest increases survival by 53 percent

A study led by Dr. Tom P. Aufderheide, professor of emergency medicine at The Medical College of Wisconsin, shows an alternative method of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation increases long-term survival of patients.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Serious hockey injuries among young children skyrocketing, study finds

The incidence of hockey-related injuries among children aged 9 to 14 leading to emergency department visits more than doubled between 1990 and 2006, according to a new nationwide study.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facial recognition at first glance

We meet a multitude of people on a daily basis: the nice waitress in the coffee shop around the corner, the bus driver or the colleagues at the office. Without the ability to recognize faces at first glance ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Media reports may paint overly optimistic view of cancer

Newspaper and magazine reports about cancer appear more likely to discuss aggressive treatment and survival than death, treatment failure or adverse events, and almost none mention end-of-life palliative or hospice care, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover new 'golden ratios' for female facial beauty

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden. The distance between a woman's eyes and the distance between her eyes and ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 14

Cold case techniques bring mummy's face to life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the skills of artists who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what the Oriental Institute’s mummy Meresamun may have looked like in real life.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hippo's island life helps explain dwarf hobbit (w/Video)

Ancient Madagascan hippos have shed light on the origins of the small brain of the 1-metre-tall human, known as the hobbit, scientists at the Natural History Museum report in the journal Nature today.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Hair Reveals Where Murder Victims Drank Water

University of Utah scientists developed a new crime-fighting tool by showing that human hair reveals the general location where a person drank water, helping police track past movements of criminal suspects ...

Chemistry /

created Feb 25, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 4


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