The same, but better: How we represent ourselves through avatars
Most people who create avatars of themselves only make minor changes compared with their real selves, according to a new University of Alberta-led study.
Most people who create avatars of themselves only make minor changes compared with their real selves, according to a new University of Alberta-led study.
Social Sciences
Apr 30, 2019
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Did you hear what happened when Bill Gates walked into a bar? Everybody there immediately became millionaires—on average.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 4, 2019
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When a hard-hitting frontal car crash occurs, seatbelts engage and airbags deploy. It all happens in milliseconds, and the vehicle's safety features save lives. But these safety systems are not perfect, and are not optimized ...
Engineering
Feb 6, 2019
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The latest issue of Philosophical Transactions B looks at the opportunities for the use of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs), both from embryos and from the reprogramming of adult cells, as a scalable alternative to using ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 23, 2018
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A start-up co-founded by an Imperial student is using data analysis to transform menswear design.
Other
Sep 26, 2017
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All cell types continually generate forces in the human body. An interdisciplinary cooperation of biologists and physicists including Heidelberg researcher Prof. Dr Ulrich Schwarz now succeeded in performing high-resolution ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 15, 2017
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For nearly every step of his almost 12-mile walk, Darryl Dyer has company. Flocks of crows follow him, signaling each other, because they all know that he's the guy with the peanuts.
Plants & Animals
Mar 17, 2016
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In a paper published today by the prestigious journal, Nature Methods, biologists at the University of Luxembourg, Tampere University of Technology and the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, USA, have created the biggest ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2013
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A tiny, translucent zebrafish that glows green when its liver makes glucose has helped an international team of researchers identify a compound that regulates whole-body metabolism and appears to protect obese mice from signs ...
Biochemistry
Dec 2, 2012
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In the record books, the swiftest sprinters tend to be of West African ancestry and the faster swimmers tend to be white.
Other
Jul 12, 2010
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