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Other Feb 2, 2017

Lost songs of Holocaust found in University of Akron archives

In the final months of World War II, as Allied Forces began to liberate the prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, they captured on film the horrors they saw around them. Soon, the whole world saw—images of skeletal survivors ...

Social Sciences Jan 27, 2017

What can we learn from lottery spending?

What can we learn from where people buy their lottery tickets—and how much they spend?

Hi Tech & Innovation Jan 17, 2017

The mind as a weapon: Helping Marines make faster, better combat decisions

Battlefield commanders face many scenarios requiring fast decisions—attacking an enemy position, evacuating injured warfighters, navigating unfamiliar terrain. Each situation pushes leaders to make quick yet informed choices.

Internet Jan 9, 2017

Building a Google for the dark web

In today's data-rich world, companies, governments and individuals want to analyze anything and everything they can get their hands on – and the World Wide Web has loads of information. At present, the most easily indexed ...

Hi Tech & Innovation Nov 15, 2016

Why virtual reality won't replace cadavers in medical school

Virtual reality has been described as a game changer for medical education. Some even predict it will see an end to using cadavers to teach anatomy.

Economics & Business Nov 15, 2016

Research finds consumers are more accepting of native advertisements

The line between online content written by journalists and story-like ads that are paid for by specific corporations can be blurry, but, according to a new study, consumers don't seem to mind-as long as the content meets ...

Engineering Nov 2, 2016

New 'digital life' initiative aims to create 3-D models of all living creatures

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by biologist Duncan Irschick who created the Beastcam Array, a rapid-capture, field portable tabletop system for making high-resolution, full-color 3D models of living ...

Social Sciences Nov 1, 2016

Closed captions, transcripts aid learning for almost all students

Most college and university students who use closed captions and transcripts on video and multimedia find them helpful as a learning tool, despite them not regularly being made available, according to new research from Oregon ...

Engineering Oct 26, 2016

New automatic forest fire detection system by using surveillance drones

Researchers from UPM are developing a method to detect forest fires by using a new color index. The index is based on methods for vegetation classification and has been adapted to detect the tonalities of flames and smoke.

Space Exploration Oct 5, 2016

Image: Rover's panorama taken amid Murray Buttes on Mars

This 360-degree panorama was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover while the rover was in an area called "Murray Buttes" on lower Mount Sharp, one of the most scenic landscapes yet visited by ...

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