News tagged with facial resemblance
Race has little effect on people's ability to spot family resemblances
Scientists have ample evidence that individuals use a variety of cues to identify their own kin. People can also detect resemblances in families other than their own. A new study shows that their success in doing so is the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Teaching machines to recognize shapes
As any parent knows, teaching a toddler to recognize objects involves trial-and-error. A child, for example, may not initially recognize a cow in a picture-book after seeing the live animal on a farm and being ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Putting new face on ferocious saber-tooth cats
It's safe to say Northern Illinois University Biological Sciences Professor Virginia Naples has a fascination with cats. She keeps two tabbies at her Hampshire, Ill. home. She also has focused her research ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Face-to-face with an ancient human
A reconstruction based on the skull of Norway's best-preserved Stone Age skeleton makes it possible to study the features of a boy who lived outside Stavanger 7,500 years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Are cancers newly evolved species?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer patients may view their tumors as parasites taking over their bodies, but this is more than a metaphor for Peter Duesberg, a molecular and cell biology professor at the University of ...
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Engineering a new face after injury
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, surgeons face many limitations when it comes to helping a patient who suffers from a severe craniofacial injury, or an injury pertaining to the skull and the face. Most often a result ...
Jul 22, 2011 |
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Next gen video games let players control the story
Menacing alien machines descend on Earth, and amid all-out war, a soldier searches a building to find a frightened boy hiding in a vent.
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Why police sketches sometimes don't work
When they were investigating the series of attacks on women in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, police stopped dozens of black or Latino men who were thought to resemble a face in a forensic sketch. The image of a ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 11, 2011 |
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Texas man gets first full face transplant in US
(AP) -- A Texas construction worker horribly disfigured in a power line accident has undergone the nation's first full face transplant in hopes of smiling again and feeling kisses from his 3-year-old daughter.
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Geminoid DK: An ultra-realistic android announced (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The uncanny valley is getting smaller every day. For those of you not familiar with that concept, the uncanny valley is a term, first coined by researchers in Japan, that explains the innate ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Web makes 15 mins fame a lifetime of shame
Thought the Internet was a place for anonymity? Ask Christopher Lee, who resigned as a US congressman this week.
Feb 11, 2011 |
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