News tagged with people
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Roboticist creates Hugvie - Huggable vibrating pillow smartphone accessory
(Phys.org) -- Japanese robot designer Hiroshi Ishiguro is fast becoming a sort of roboticist for the people, in Japan anyway. Instead of terminator style robots meant to do a lot of serious work or to serve on the battlefield, ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 01, 2012 |
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Study: 800-year-old farmers could teach us how to protect the Amazon
In the face of mass deforestation of the Amazon, we could learn from its earliest inhabitants who managed their farmland sustainably. Research from an international team of archaeologists and paleoecologists, ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Researchers use Facebook to dispel notion that social contagion is like biological contagion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, diseases tend to spread most quickly when introduced into a crowded environment. The more neighbors there are, the more easily viruses can hop from person to person. More recently, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 03, 2012 |
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Upper class people more likely to cheat: study
The upper class has a higher propensity for unethical behavior, being more likely to believe – as did Gordon Gekko in the movie "Wall Street" – that "greed is good," according to a new study from ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2012 |
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You can't do the math without the words
Most people learn to count when they are children. Yet surprisingly, not all languages have words for numbers. A recent study published in the journal of Cognitive Science shows that a few tongues lack number words and as ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Where you vote may influence how you vote, researchers find
Passersby who stopped to answer surveys taken next to churches in the Netherlands and England reported themselves as more politically conservative and more negative toward non-Christians than did people questioned within ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Researchers hope to use bugged bugs for search and rescue
(PhysOrg.com) -- While search and rescue dogs are currently used to help locate survivors of earthquakes or other disasters, new research hopes to make this job easier by turning to bugs. Insects have the ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 29, 2011 |
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Geologists pinpoint near exact source of some of Stonehenge's stones
(PhysOrg.com) -- Robert Ixer and Richard Bevins, British geologists, after nine months of tedious research, have pinpointed the place from which some of the stones that make up Stonehenge were quarried. The ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Paleontologists turning to neural networks to find new dig sites
(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds, if not thousands of years, researchers of one kind or another have dug into the earth in search of clues to help explain our past. In so doing they have found evidence of ancient peoples that ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Searching for balloons in a social network
In December 2009, 10 red weather balloons were launched from locations throughout the United States. The project’s aim: testing the mettle of social media.
Oct 28, 2011 |
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More youth seeing their Facebook, email hacked
Young people are having a harder time keeping their profile pages and email accounts secure, especially from prankster friends. And although many treat hacking or spying as a joke, nearly half who have been victims were upset ...
Oct 06, 2011 |
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Continents influenced human migration, spread of technology
How modern-day humans dispersed on the planet and the pace of civilization-changing technologies that accompanied their migrations are enduring mysteries. Scholars believe ancient peoples on Europe and Asia moved primarily ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 19, 2011 |
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Is the true 'wisdom of the crowd' to copy successful individuals?
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published today on crowd wisdom — the statistical phenomenon by which varied individual guesses produce uncannily accurate average answers — has shed light on why we have a bias to ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Fear of threats associated with social circle size
Humans' fear level toward threats is associated with the typical size of our social circles, according to a report published Apr. 11 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Rare animal-shaped mounds discovered in Peru
(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than a century and a half, scientists and tourists have visited massive animal-shaped mounds, such as Serpent Mound in Ohio, created by the indigenous people of North America. But ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 29, 2012 |
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