Horologists around the world on Saturday will carry out one of the weirdest operations of their profession: they will hold back time.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

A new linguistic study of how individuals interpret various types of utterances sheds more light on how literal and contextual meaning are distinguished. The study, "A novel empirical paradigm for distinguishing between What ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Mar 09, 2012 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developed at Oxford University that accurately assesses what people mean from what they say online will provide a valuable ‘sentiment analysis’ tool for businesses, particularly ...

Technology - Software

Feb 15, 2012 not rated yet 1

Leading scientists from around the world are meeting in Britain from Thursday to consider a proposal that could eventually see Greenwich Mean Time relegated to a footnote in history.

Other Sciences - Other

Nov 03, 2011 4.6 / 5 (9) 12

Red and green – the conventional colours of Christmas – are not, as many might suppose, a legacy of the Victorians. Instead, they hark back to the Middle Ages and perhaps even earlier, according ...

Other Sciences - Other

Oct 20, 2011 not rated yet 1

The organization in charge of the Internet's address system is taking over a database widely used by computers and websites to keep track of time zones around the world.

Technology - Internet

Oct 16, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory of meaning has the potential to revolutionise many artificial intelligence technologies and enable web searches that interpret the meaning of queries, according to its developer, a computer scientist ...

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Sep 26, 2011 4 / 5 (6) 2 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- All the gossip, insults and dirty looks add up fast on popular reality shows, far outpacing the level seen in equally popular dramas, comedies and soap operas according to a new Brigham Young ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

May 21, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The time it takes for our brains to search for and retrieve the word we want to say has been measured for the first time. The discovery is reported in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 23, 2009 4.3 / 5 (8) 1

Is it better to treat someone with kid gloves or to treat them carefully? Researchers in Italy have investigated how the brain recognises that the first phrase means the same as the second. Publishing in the ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Sep 14, 2009 4.3 / 5 (7) 2

When a single female is nearby, female antbirds will sing over the songs of their male partners in an apparent attempt to keep their messages from getting through, according to a new report published online on March 12th ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 12, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The improved use and exploitation of digital knowledge - that is the aim of the THESEUS Project. In the future semantic technologies will be able to recognise the meaning of information content. Fraunhofer ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Mar 03, 2009 3.5 / 5 (2) 0