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  'Taxels' Convert Mechanical Motion to Electronic Signals

  April 25, 2013 — Using bundles of vertical zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals. The ... > full story
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  With Wave of the Hand, Researchers Create Touch-Based Interfaces

  April 25, 2013 — Researchers previously have shown that a depth camera system, such as Kinect, can be combined with a projector to turn almost any surface into a touchscreen. Now researchers have demonstrated how ... > full story
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  Computer Game Could Improve Sight of Visually Impaired Children

  April 24, 2013 — Visually impaired children could benefit from a revolutionary new computer game being developed by a team of neuroscientists and game ... > full story
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  Virtual, Squishy Creatures Evolve to Run Using Evolutionary Algorithms

  April 23, 2013 — Scientists have created a computer algorithm that can be used to witness virtual creatures evolving their squishy, muscle-like features in order to teach themselves to ... > full story
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  A Beautiful Species of Tree Iguana Redescribed 179 Years After Its Discovery

  April 23, 2013 — The tree iguana, Liolaemus nigromaculatus, was the second species of the genus Liolaemus to be described and the nominal species of the group nigromaculatus. However, since its description, no ... > full story
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  Decoding Touch: Rats Detect Textures With Their Whiskers

  April 23, 2013 — With their whiskers rats can detect the texture of objects in the same way as humans do using their fingertips. A new study shows that it is possible to understand what specific object has been ... > full story
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  NASA's HyspIRI: Seeing the Forest and the Trees and More

  April 22, 2013 — Light contains fingerprints of materials that can be detected by sensors that capture the unique set of reflected wavelengths. The technique was applied to Earth during new work by ... > full story
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  Lazy Eye Disorder Treated With Video Game Tetris

  April 22, 2013 — Scientists have used the popular puzzle video game Tetris in an innovative approach to treat adult amblyopia, commonly known as "lazy eye." By distributing information between the two eyes in a ... > full story
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  Forensic Sciences Are 'Fraught With Error'

  April 22, 2013 — Researchers review various high-profile false convictions and provide an overview of classic psychological research on expectancy and observer effects and indicates in which ways forensic science ... > full story
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  Neural Activity in Bats Measured in-Flight

  April 18, 2013 — Scientists have, for the first time, measured the activity of place cells in the brains of bats as they navigated in three-dimensional ... > full story

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