A new application for devices with Android operating systems, called OnTheBus, helps people find their way and move around in large cities. The application is based on universal design principles and is therefore useful for ...
Software
Jun 20, 2012
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How the news media tell a story can make those who consume the story more compassionate and willing to act and help others.
Social Sciences
May 31, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain birds may have compass information mapped directly onto their vision, much as fighter pilots have ‘head up displays’ overlaying flight information on their view of the skies.
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2012
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Scientists understand that Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic compass in ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2011
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Each fall millions of monarch butterflies from across the eastern United States use a time-compensated sun compass to direct their navigation south, traveling up to 2,000 miles to an overwintering site in a specific grove ...
Biotechnology
Nov 23, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the last eight years, researchers from the University of Canterbury have been tracking 16 radio-tagged humpback whales through their migratory paths and learned that these whales follow a straight line ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Vikings are said to have been able to navigate with the aid of "sunstones" that allowed them to see the sun on cloudy or foggy days. Now scientists in Hungary and Sweden say the sunstones could have been ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Did you know that the humble robin uses quantum physics?
Quantum Physics
Jan 21, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the Czech Republic and Germany studying the hunting behavior of red foxes have discovered the foxes are more successful if they jump on their prey towards the north.
"Compassion fatigue" and why people become numb to the marketing efforts of charities and nonprofit organisations will be explored in a new study at The University of Queensland Business School.
Social Sciences
Dec 10, 2010
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