If you're having a bad day, you may want to stay away from listening to commercials for Lululemon or Coca Cola. Or from any retailer or merchandise whose name bears a similarly repetitive phonetic sound.
Economics & Business
Oct 18, 2010
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A team led by Naoko Imamoto of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako, Japan, has uncovered processes governing the formation of functionally important structures called nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) in dividing human ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 18, 2010
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The computerized "Hala" will be able to translate not just language but nuance when dealing with multicultural visitors.
Computer Sciences
Oct 18, 2010
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Nanotechnologists assemble intricate nanodevices, such as computer chips, molecule by molecule using ‘bottom-up’ techniques that mirror nature. One approach shuttles molecules along surfaces into new and functional ...
Nanophysics
Oct 18, 2010
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When customers are allowed to pay what they want for a purchase, knowing a portion of the payment will go to charity, they become rather generous, according to a study by Associate Professor Leif Nelson, Haas Marketing Group. ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2010
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Action-centred cognition is a groundbreaking concept in robotics where robots learn to 'think' in terms of what actions they can perform on an object. This new trend in cognition theory opens exciting new vistas.
Robotics
Oct 18, 2010
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British teenagers of South Asian origin have revealed some of the reasons why they are put off entering the teaching profession, new research has revealed.
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Manchester scientists have turned embryonic stem cells into the cells that produce cartilage, which could be used to repair damaged and diseased joints.
Biotechnology
Oct 18, 2010
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Scientists at the University of Adelaide's Waite Research Institute have discovered new cases of herbicide resistance in annual ryegrass, the most serious and costly weed of Australian cropping.
Ecology
Oct 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the US, China, Korea and Singapore have collaborated to develop flexible ultra-thin sheets of inorganic light emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors for implantation under the skin for medical ...
