News tagged with objects movement

Neuroscientists reveal how the brain learns to recognize objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how the brain recognizes objects is a central challenge for understanding human vision, and for designing artificial vision systems. (No computer system comes close to human ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Training eye movement may reduce driver distraction

More than 16 people are killed and more than 1,300 people are injured each day in crashes involving a distracted driver, a phenomenon that could be reduced with the right application of motion information and appropriate ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Darwin complicit in manipulating photos

When Darwin came to publish The Expression of the Emotions in 1872, he employed images made by five photographers to illustrate the wide variation in human facial expressions. A new study of the way that two of these phot ...

Biology / Other

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The need for speed

Coherent Raman scattering methods have one key advantage over spontaneous Raman microscopy: speed. The (sub-)microsecond pixel dwell times offered by narrowband CRS imaging methods have initiated a new era ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Photonics: Beam me up

'Tractor beams' of light that pull objects towards them are no longer science fiction. Haifeng Wang at the A*STAR Data Storage Institute and co-workers have now demonstrated how a tractor beam can in fact be realized on a ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A robot learns how to tidy up after you

(Phys.org) -- Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Facebook IPO has privacy implications, advocates say

Facebook's IPO could be one of the most successful in history, but that very success could force the company to make a choice between protecting users' privacy and exploiting their personal data.

Technology / Internet

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microscope looks into cells of living fish

Microscopes provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. However, this is very difficult especially for higher organisms. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Laser scan at full speed

Is a contact wire missing or is it faulty? What‘s the situation in front of the entrance to a railway station or a tunnel? A 3D laser scanner can increase the train‘s safety and reliability.

Physics / General Physics

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Economics study homes in on factors influencing value of great art

Arzu Aysin Tekindor has never seen "Antiques Roadshow," the PBS television program that routinely subjects artworks and other collectibles to the burning question: What is it worth?

Other Sciences / Other

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students to demonstrate smart camera trap at new engineering competition

(Phys.org) -- Forget about building a better mouse trap. University of California, San Diego sophomore Riley Yeakle and his teammates have come up with a better camera trap, and they will be facing off with ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers develop system to help prevent construction accidents and materials falling from buildings

(Phys.org) -- Construction management experts at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering have developed a system that employs remote sensing technology to improve safety on construction sites by using tracking ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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