It is an age-old question – what makes someone attractive? We often say things like "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" but while this romantic notion may bring comfort to those dealt a poor hand in life, it also gives ...
Machine learning & AI
Jan 7, 2019
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High-resolution display devices increasingly need ultra-fine pitch assemblies. On that account, display driver interconnection technology has become a major challenge for upscaling display electronics.
Hardware
Nov 14, 2018
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Around the middle of the 2015 season, something odd started happening in Major League Baseball (MLB): Home runs surged. They surged again in 2016, from the previous year's 4,909 to 5,610, and then again in 2017 to an all-time ...
Mathematics
Jul 17, 2018
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Ongoing research in Sweden reveals that when navigating by echolocation, as blind people do, our powers of hearing can be used in ways we never realized.
Other
Sep 8, 2017
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New statistical analysis examining changes in batter productivity as a result of the recently changed strike zone could raise concern for the Major League Baseball Players Union and individual baseball players. University ...
Mathematics
Aug 1, 2017
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Never mind counting aces and killer shots. If you want to predict the outcome of a tennis match, pay attention to the players' grunts.
Other
Jul 5, 2017
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In one of the first crowdfunding studies focusing on social enterprises, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that how a pitch is voiced and worded is much more important for social entrepreneurs ...
Economics & Business
May 31, 2017
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Born blind, Juan Pablo Culasso has never seen a bird. But through his gifted sense of hearing, he can identify more than 3,000 different bird sounds and differentiate more than 720 species.
Plants & Animals
Jun 10, 2016
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For years, Volkswagen lured customers with "clean diesel" ads that sent cars zooming off the lot and the company's revenues spiraling. Now, in the wake of VW's admission that its software cheated emissions tests, those ads ...
Business
Nov 4, 2015
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Something strange is happening within the world-famous pitch drop experiment with the latest drop forming much faster than the last couple of drops.
General Physics
Nov 10, 2014
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