Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed techniques for combining the views of 480 video cameras mounted in a two-story geodesic dome to perform large-scale 3D motion reconstruction, including volleyball games, ...
Engineering
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Philadelphia's SugarHouse Casino opened its doors in September 2010 after years of protests from community members who feared that the casino would lead to an increase in neighborhood crime. However, a new study by researchers ...
Social Sciences
Jul 17, 2014
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As we all know, some optical devices can only work with a certain incident polarization direction. In this case, a polarizer is necessary to shift the polarization direction of linearly polarized light. A common polarizer ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 17, 2014
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From fertilized egg to adult, the cells of the human body go through an astronomical number of divisions. During division of any of the body's roughly 30 trillion cells, DNA from the initial cell must be split precisely between ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 17, 2014
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Researchers have created the first comprehensive library of genetic switches in plants, setting the stage for scientists around the globe to better understand how plants adapt to environmental changes and to design more robust ...
Biotechnology
Jul 17, 2014
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Heading to a store shelf near you is a new generation of smartwatches that run new software from Google called Android Wear.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 17, 2014
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A world without bees? Don't even consider it! Of course we would miss the products of the hive, such as honey, pollen and beeswax. But most of all, these super-pollinators are essential to agriculture. In terms of tonnage, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 17, 2014
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Are you ready for a touch-screen computer? I'm pretty sure we're all going to be using our fingers on the screen eventually.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 17, 2014
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Molecular and stable isotopic techniques have been used to examine 5000 years of sedimentary dynamics of the northern Coorong Lagoon, South Australia.
Environment
Jul 17, 2014
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During the 2011 and 2012 migration seasons, University of Missouri researchers monitored mallard ducks with new remote satellite tracking technology, marking the first time ducks have been tracked closely during the entirety ...
Ecology
Jul 17, 2014
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