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A georeferenced digital 'comic' to improve emergency management

Spanish researchers at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid have developed a computer application that allows georeferenced images that have been uploaded to social networks on the Internet to be recovered, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A tilt of the head can lure a mate

(PhysOrg.com) -- The angle we tilt our head can play a significant role in how attractive we are to the opposite sex, according to latest research.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (17) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

In attracting mates, male bowerbirds appear to rely on special optical effect

Bowerbird males are well known for making elaborate constructions, lavished with decorative objects, to impress and attract their mates. Now, researchers reporting online on September 9 in Current Biology have i ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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Keeping up with embryogenesis: New microscope lets users track individual cells as they move, divide

(Medical Xpress) -- The transformation of a fertilized egg into a functioning animal requires thousands of cell divisions and intricate rearrangements of those cells. That process is captured with unprecedented ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals trade patterns for crucial substance played key role in Maya collapse

Shifts in exchange patterns provide a new perspective on the fall of inland Maya centers in Mesoamerica approximately 1,000 years ago. This major historical process, sometimes referred to as the "Maya collapse" has puzzled ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MIT biologist relishes the challenge of picking apart the cell's most complex structure

One of the most important structures in a cell is the nuclear pore complex — a tiny yet complicated channel through which information flows in and out of the cell’s nucleus, directing all other cell ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A new optical microscopy approach opens the door to better observations in molecular biology

Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have set up a new optical microscopy approach that combines two recent imaging techniques in order to visualize molecular assemblies without affecting their biological ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fujitsu develops high-speed thin client technology for 10-fold improvement in responsiveness

 Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced that it has developed technology for high-speed thin clients that will respond as much as ten times faster to user operations, even in low-quality network ...

Technology / Software

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists continue work to abolish time as fourth dimension of space

(Phys.org) -- Philosophers have debated the nature of time long before Einstein and modern physics. But in the 106 years since Einstein, the prevailing view in physics has been that time serves as the fourth ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 14, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (78) | comments 717 | with audio podcast report

Loyal Instagram users fret about Facebook's reach

(AP) -- Poor Instagram users. First, their beloved photo-sharing application moves from iPhone-only exclusivity to the Android phone masses. A week later, Facebook swallows up the tiny startup behind the ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

3D planning tool for the city of tomorrow

Noise levels, fine particulate matter, traffic volumes – these data are of interest to urban planners and residents alike. A three-dimensional presentation will soon make it easier to handle them: as ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Keeping an eye on volcanoes, from the sky

The importance of global and frequent data coverage of volcanoes was highlighted in a recent article published in Science. Satellites are finding that volcanoes previously thought to be dormant are showin ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Facebook's Timeline change disrupts some businesses

Stephen Terrell expected a group of happy users when he updated his company's Facebook profile page to the new Timeline format, allowing his mostly senior-citizen customers to register for a contest to win a trip to Hollywood ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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