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Computer Game's High Score Could Earn The Nobel Prize In Medicine

Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to idle pursuits. This week researchers will try to ...  > full story

New Basic Element For Electronic Circuits: 'Memristor' Could Give Computers Memories That Don't Forget

Researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element ...  > full story

Virtual World Therapeautic For Addicts: Study Shows Impact Of Environment To Addiction Cravings

Patients in therapy to overcome addictions have a new arena to test their coping skills -- the virtual world. A new study found ...  > full story

Beating The Codebreakers With Quantum Cryptography

Quantum cryptography may be essentially solved, but getting the funky physics to work on disciplined computer networks is a whole new headache. Cryptography is an ...  > full story

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  Braille Converter Bridges The Information Gap

  May 8, 2008 — A free, e-mail-based service that translates text into Braille and audio recordings is helping to bridge the information gap for blind and visually impaired people, giving them quick and easy access ... > full story
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  Quantum Cryptography: Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' Crypto

  May 8, 2008 — Quantum cryptography has been regarded as 100-percent protection against attacks on sensitive data traffic. But now a research team in Sweden has found a hole in this advanced technology. The risk of ... > full story
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  New Software Allows ISPs And P2P Users To Get Along Without Getting Too Cozy

  May 5, 2008 — Engineeers have discovered a way for peer-to-peer (P2P) users to efficiently identify nearby P2P clients in order to reduce costly cross-network traffic without sacrificing performance for the ... > full story
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  Child Development
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  Perception
  Neuroscience
   

  Bringing Down The Language Barrier ... Automatically

  May 5, 2008 — Progress being made by European researchers on automatic speech-to-speech translation technology could help the EU tackle one of the biggest remaining boundaries to internal trade, mobility and the ... > full story
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  Scientists Develop Technique For Extracting Hierarchical Structure Of Networks

  May 3, 2008 — Researchers show that many real-world networks can be understood as a hierarchy of modules, where nodes cluster together to form modules, which themselves cluster into larger modules -- arrangements ... > full story
• Language Acquisition
  Child Development
  Social Psychology
  Relationships
  Artificial Intelligence
  Educational Psychology
   

  Instant Messaging: A New Language?

  May 2, 2008 — For many adults over the age of 30, the former groupings of letters would seem incoherent, but for a newer generation of technologically-savvy young adults it can say a lot. Researchers found that ... > full story
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  Online Intervention Paramount For Reducing HIV In High-risk Population

  April 30, 2008 — Young Internet-using men who have sex with men AND who meet their sexual partners both online and offline have greater numbers of partners, appear more likely to contract HIV, and report higher ... > full story
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  Inorganic Chemistry
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  Physics Advance Leads To A Better Understanding Of Optics At The Atomic Scale

  April 30, 2008 — An advance by physicists improves our understanding of how light interacts with matter, and could make possible the development of new integrated-circuit technologies that result in faster computers ... > full story
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  Wearable Computing: Special Goggles Analyze Eye Movements To Diagnose Disease

  April 28, 2008 — Sometimes the diagnosis of episodes of illness in schizophrenia, rotatory vertigo, or reading and writing deficits needs electro-oculography (EOG), performed using a special medical apparatus. ... > full story
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  Users Of Yahoo Answers Seek Advice, Opinion, Expertise

  April 25, 2008 — One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise. In ... > full story

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