First Amendment rights may be put into play in Twitter discussion
In the wake of insubordinate comments made recently on Twitter accounts, please match the coach to the action:
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LCROSS Viewer's Guide
Just imagine. A spaceship plunges out of the night sky, hits the ground and explodes. A plume of debris billows back into the heavens, leading your eye to a second ship in hot pursuit. Four minutes later, that one hits the ...
Space Exploration
Oct 5, 2009
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Machine Learning by Watching and Listening
(PhysOrg.com) -- To expand the boundaries of machine intelligence, Ben Taskar is using television shows with large fan bases like CSI, Alias, and Lost to teach computers how to be smarter about what they see, hear and read.
Computer Sciences
Oct 5, 2009
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Silver Nanoparticles Give Polymer Solar Cells A Boost
(PhysOrg.com) -- Small bits of metal may play a new role in solar power. Researchers at Ohio State University are experimenting with polymer semiconductors that absorb the sun’s energy and generate electricity. The goal: ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 5, 2009
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A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism
(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to be a paleontologist to suppose that way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth chances were good meat eaters would dined on one of their own. Short of a time-machine trip back 70 million years, ...
Archaeology
Oct 5, 2009
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Twitter tool shows hot tweets when people meet
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first Twitter tool that ranks the popularity of individual messages plans to make the backchannel conversations at conferences and meetings more interesting.
Software
Oct 5, 2009
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Toddlers develop individualized rules for grammar
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using advanced computer modeling and statistical analysis, a University of Texas at Austin linguistics professor has found that toddlers develop their own individual structures for using language that are ...
Other
Oct 5, 2009
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Two NASA satellites capture monster Super Typhoon Melor
NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Super Typhoon Melor early today, October 5 and captured some impressive images of the storm's clouds on a track toward Japan. The Western Pacific Ocean has the edge on super typhoons, ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2009
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NIU will use robotic submarine to explore melting occurring below Antarctic ice
(PhysOrg.com) -- Northern Illinois University geologists are helping to lead a multi-million-dollar, five-year investigation of melting near the base of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) using a 24-foot-long robotic submarine ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 5, 2009
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Models begin to unravel how single DNA strands combine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and combine to form the double ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 5, 2009
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