A new smartphone app from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London will lend a helping a hand to all aspiring DJs and musicians by letting anyone create their own musical mash-ups with the aid of some talented artificial ...
Software
Mar 29, 2013
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For many people, suburbs have a bad reputation: too bland, too boring. Alexander D'Hooghe would like to change that perception.
Other
Mar 29, 2013
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When it comes to judging art, beauty may not just be in the eye of the beholder, according to a study from the University of Leeds.
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Camille Moussette explores how interaction designers can leverage and embrace the sense of touch to develop interfaces and experiences that go beyond traditional visual and form-based aesthetics. He will defend ...
Engineering
Oct 26, 2012
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Why would 19th-century doctors want to ban piano lessons for girls? Did they truly believe that learning to play music could cause sexual and neurotic disorders? Or were there sociological reasons for picking on the piano ...
Other
Sep 5, 2012
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All in one: A new electricity generating building component is being developed at EPFL.
Engineering
Jun 8, 2012
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People who feel good about themselves are less likely to choose an attractive product than a functional one, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. But choosing highly aesthetic products may make people ...
Social Sciences
May 16, 2012
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A Kansas State University researcher and former park ranger is helping people take a new view of the prairie and see it as more than a seemingly empty landscape.
Ecology
Feb 22, 2012
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Italy is well-known for aesthetics that play to every sense of the human sensory system: automotive style, espresso, ancient architecture, music, and Fettuccini Alfredo, among much else. Now a team of Italian investigators ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 15, 2012
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When researchers receive prizes, it is usually to honour their scientific work. However, the photographs from the scanning electron microscope, taken by Siddhartha Pathak during his postdoctoral time at Empa in Thun, Switzerland, ...
Nanophysics
Oct 12, 2011
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