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Computers excel at identifying smiles of frustration (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have trained computers to recognize smiles, and they have turned out to be more adept at recognizing smiles of frustration ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Samsung patent wants to get in user's face

(Phys.org) -- Samsung phones of the future may tell if you are happy, sad, or altogether disgusted. Samsung has filed for a patent on a method and device that can tell a user’s emotions based on facial ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Facial recognition software could reveal your social security number

According to a new study which will be presented August 4 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, technology has made it possible to identify and gain the personal information of strangers by using facial recognition ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Facial structure of men and women has become more similar over time

Research from North Carolina State University shows that they really don't make women like they used to, at least in Spain. The study, which examined hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese skulls spanning four ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

Neanderthal faces were not adapted to cold

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research into Neanderthal skulls suggests that facial features believed for over a century to be adaptations to extreme cold are unlikely to have evolved in response to glacial periods ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Computers with emotions (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge University film provides a glimpse of how robots and humans could interact in the future.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

The brain speaks: Scientists decode words from brain signals

In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers suggest Botox can reduce ability to feel emotions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying the effects of Botox, a chemical used to smooth out facial wrinkles, have found the paralysis of facial muscles can reduce feedback to the brain and in turn reduce the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Scientists create mouse grimace scale to help identify pain in humans and animals

A new study by researchers from McGill University and the University of British Columbia shows that mice, like humans, express pain through facial expressions.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Violent teenage girls fail to spot anger or disgust in others' faces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Girls appear to be "protected" from showing antisocial behaviour until their teenage years, new research from the University of Cambridge has found.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Stress make women social and men antisocial

(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies by scientists at the University of Southern California have found that while stress may result in a universal physiological "fight or flight response" there are gender differences in psychological ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (19) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Roman era York may have been more diverse than today

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new archaeological study in Britain has shown that its multi-cultural nature is not a new phenomenon, but that even in Roman times there was a strong African influence, with North Africans ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 50 | with audio podcast report

Everybody laughs, everybody cries: Researchers identify universal emotions

Here's a piece of research that might leave you tickled: laughter is a universal language, according to new research. The study, conducted with people from Britain and Namibia, suggests that basic emotions such as amusement, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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