A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous discomforts.
Biotechnology
Dec 15, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Are you as dashing as George Clooney, or as glamorous as Angelina Jolie? Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London have developed an app that uses a mathematical formula to analyse your face and tell ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 9, 2011
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We all know that experience is a powerful teaching tool: practice remodels neural connections and leads to mastery. Now scientists suggest that it is early experience with language—and not special innate cognitive ability—that ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The beauty and majesty of birds in flight has long captured the attention of artists and photographers.
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2011
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The fictitious storybook character Dr. Doolittle was known for talking with animals.
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2011
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Research on geoengineering appears to have broad public support, as a new, internationally-representative survey revealed that 72 per cent of respondents approved research into the climate-manipulating technique.
Environment
Oct 24, 2011
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University of Texas at Austin researchers have discovered how to extract and use information in an individual image to determine how far objects are from the focus distance, a feat only accomplished by human and animal visual ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 26, 2011
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NASA's humanoid robot has finally awakened in space.
Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2011
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A new tactile technology developed at Disney Research, Pittsburgh (DRP), called Surround Haptics, makes it possible for video game players and film viewers to feel a wide variety of sensations, from the smoothness of a finger ...
Engineering
Aug 8, 2011
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Sightings of mythical sea monsters can provide important statistical data, according to a leading expert in the field from the University of St. Andrews.
Plants & Animals
Jul 14, 2011
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