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Forgotten treasures shed new light on Little Grey Rabbit author

(PhysOrg.com) -- A suffragette poem, penned by a world-famous children’s author and kept privately at a University of Manchester Hall of Residence for over a century, has been made available online.

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taking pictures of the earth from space, we assume that a great deal of money has to be spent on high-tech equipment and complex vehicles to get the camera up there. But, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0 weblog

It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images

(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Apple's iLife takes home photo albums to a new level

It's the amateur photographer's management tool for digital pictures. But Apple's iLife multimedia software suite has some A-list users as well.

Technology / Software

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Building a stellar time machine

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers are building a celestial time machine that lets astronomers look back at hundreds of thousands of objects in the Earth’s skies over the past century.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 4

World's oldest surviving Bible published online

About 800 pages of the world's oldest surviving Bible have been pieced together and published on the Internet for the first time, experts in Britain said Monday.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | 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

Social networking sites 'keep deleted photos' - research

User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites including Facebook after people have deleted them, British researchers said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bird songs change with environment

Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tiny cameras have big market

Having earned a reputation helping other companies make smaller and faster semiconductors, San Jose-based Tessera now hopes to use its miniature camera technology to revolutionize how a wide array of gadgets interact with ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obituary photos suggest growing bias against aging faces

A new study that looked at obituary photographs published in one metropolitan newspaper suggests that Americans may have become more biased toward youthful appearance, particularly for women.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New method could lead to narrower chip patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 5

LIFE.com goes live

LIFE, the defunct US magazine, came back to life online on Tuesday as a website featuring photographs from its legendary and prize-winning collection.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Australia's most endangered snake might need burning

Conserving Australia's most endangered snake might mean lighting more bush fires, ecologists have proposed.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Studying the female form: Math could lead to sexier lingerie, safer labcoats

Researchers in Japan have turned to mathematics to build a computerized 3D model of the female trunk that could help lingerie and other clothes designers make more sensuous, comfortable, and better fitting product ranges.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1