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  Elucidating Environmental History With 100 Million Laser Beams

  April 29, 2013 — By combining high-resolution surface data obtained from laser scanning with subsurface geodata, scientists have succeeded for the first time in providing a full picture of so-called karst depressions ... > full story
• Mobile Computing
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  Shape-Shifting Mobile Devices

  April 28, 2013 — Prototype mobile devices that can change shape on-demand could lay down the foundation for creating high shape resolution devices of the ... > full story
• Nanotechnology
  Physics
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  Materials Science
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  Scientists Image Nanoparticles in Action

  April 25, 2013 — Scientists have invented a technique for imaging nanoparticle dynamics with atomic resolution as these dynamics occur in a liquid environment. The results will allow, for the first time, the imaging ... > full story
• Technology
  Spintronics
  Spintronics Research
  Materials Science
  Electronics
  Graphene
   
  

  '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
• Detectors
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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
• Eye Care
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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
• Evolutionary Biology
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  Nature
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  Virtual Reality
   

  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
• New Species
  Trees
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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
• Brain Injury
  Perception
  Neuroscience
  Intelligence
  Mice
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  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
• Ecology
  Ecosystems
  Earth Science
  Environmental Issues
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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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