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Reading Avatar's DNA

You know when you're watching a pirated film downloaded from the Internet -- there's no mistaking the fuzzy footage, or the guy in the front row getting up for popcorn. Despite the poor quality, pirated video ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

A facial expression is worth a thousand words

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moving pictures are more suitable to interpret the mood of a person than a static photograph.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Physicists store short movies in an atomic vapor

The storage of light-encoded messages on film and compact disks and as holograms is ubiquitous---grocery scanners, Netflix disks, credit-card images are just a few examples. And now light signals can be stored ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Camera trap video offers rare glimpse of world's rarest gorilla (w/ Video)

Conservationists working in Cameroon's Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary have collected the first camera trap video footage of the Cross River gorilla. With fewer than 250 individuals remaining, Cross River gorillas are the world's ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Al Qaeda suspect's porn film found to contain treasure trove of secret documents

A suspected member of the Al Qaeda terrorist group, arrested in May last year in Germany, was found with a memory stick hidden in his underwear. Police discovered the stick contained a password-protected folder ...

Technology / Other

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (29) | comments 44 | with audio podcast report

The ultimate babysitter? iPads for infants stir debate

Twenty-two-month-old George sits on a tiny blue chair, at a baby-sized desk, playing with a grown-up toy -- an iPad, sign of a powerful trend that has set alarm bells ringing among child development experts.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

X-rays create a window on glass formation: First ever visualization of how powder becomes molten glass

Scientists have for the first time visualised the transformation of powder mixtures into molten glass. A better understanding of this process will make it possible to produce high quality glass at lower temperatures, ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

SDO and STEREO spacecrafts spot something new on the Sun (w/ video)

(Phys.org) -- One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does – look through the daily images of the sun from ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Now, brought to the big screen by physicists at SLAC the universe

The mysteries of the universe – from the first stars and supernovas to galaxy clusters and dark matter ­- are being revealed in stunningly beautiful full-color, high-definition 3-D videos played ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

New and inexpensive genomics method takes off

(PhysOrg.com) -- Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), a powerful new technique developed at Cornell, is leveling the playing field in genomics research. Less than a year after publication, it is being applied to answer questions ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Guiding robot planes with hand gestures

Aircraft-carrier crew use a set of standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck. But as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions, researchers at MIT are working on a system that would enable ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Teach your robot well (Georgia Tech shows how)

Within a decade, personal robots could become as common in U.S. homes as any other major appliance, and many if not most of these machines will be able to perform innumerable tasks not explicitly imagined by their manufacturers. ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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