News tagged with looming sounds
Looming sounds boost visual perception
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it’s the sound of a speeding car approaching from out of the blue, or the faint echo of footsteps following you along a dark street, such looming sounds not only make our ears prick ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 16, 2009 |
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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
May 24, 2012 |
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Free live TV is coming to your smartphone and tablet
Would you like to watch live network TV on your smartphone or stream a movie? The answer is probably yes to both.
May 17, 2012 |
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Facebook billionaire shuns luxury for startup life
(AP) -- Facebook co-founder and former Mark Zuckerberg roommate Dustin Moskovitz is by many accounts the world's youngest self-made billionaire. But the 27-year-old isn't sipping champagne in the Caribbean.
Apr 29, 2012 |
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iPad dispute signals new era in trademark troubles
(AP) -- iPotato, isock, icouch, istove, i-you-name-it. An Internet search for "i" words from A to Z will turn up just about any combination you might think up, from all over the world, only a handful of them ...
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Drought returns to Sahel, bringing hunger
(AP) -- For the third time in the past decade, drought has returned to the arid, western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions. Aid agencies are warning that if action is not taken now, the region known as the ...
Jan 22, 2012 |
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How does 365 days (instead of 1 year) affect consumer decision making?
How long it will take to bake a cake? Twenty-eight minutes or half an hour? According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, most consumers would trust the 28-minute estimate, if it comes from a reliable source ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Supervolcanoes: Not a threat for 2012
The geological record holds clues that throughout Earth's 4.5-billion-year lifetime massive supervolcanoes, far larger than Mount St. Helens or Mount Pinatubo, have erupted. However, despite the claims of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Astronauts fix another failed computer on shuttle
(AP) -- The pilots on NASA's last space shuttle flight fixed another one of their main computers Friday after it failed and set off an alarm that awoke the entire crew.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Cooperation needed to resolve deficit
The federal government has routinely operated with a budget deficit for many years, but that practice has become a bad habit, according to a Kansas State University public budgeting expert.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Unsung bedrock of prosperity
Modern agriculture would be inconceivable without phosphate fertilizers - and it needs more and more of them. Experts warn of an imminent phosphorus shortage. But not Roland Scholz from the Institute of Environmental ...
Apr 18, 2011 |
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