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Study Reveals Impact of Public DNS Services; Researchers Develop Tool to Help
October 25, 2012 A new study has revealed that public DNS services could actually slow down users' web-surfing experience. As a result, researchers have developed a solution to help avoid such an impact: a tool ... > full story -
Biology-Friendly Robot Programming Language: Training Your Robot the PaR-PaR Way
October 23, 2012 PaR-PaR, a simple high-level, biology-friendly, robot-programming language uses an object-oriented approach to make it easier to integrate robotic equipment into biological laboratories. Effective ... > full story -
Quantum Computing With Recycled Particles
October 23, 2012 Scientists have brought the reality of a quantum computer one step closer by experimentally demonstrating a technique for significantly reducing the physical resources required for quantum ... > full story -
How Fear Can Skew Spatial Perception
October 22, 2012 That snake heading towards you may be further away than it appears. Fear can skew our perception of approaching objects, causing us to underestimate the distance of a threatening one, a new study ... > full story -
How the Brain Forms Categories
October 19, 2012 Neurobiologists have investigated how the brain is able to group external stimuli into stable categories. They found the answer in the discrete dynamics of neuronal ... > full story -
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Making Sudoku Puzzles Less Puzzling
October 11, 2012 For anyone who has ever struggled while attempting to solve a Sudoku puzzle, mathematicians are coming to the rescue. They can not only explain why some Sudoku puzzles are harder than others, they ... > full story -
Tactile Glove Provides Subtle Guidance to Objects in Vicinity
October 10, 2012 Researchers have shown how computer-vision based hand-tracking and vibration feedback on the user's hand can be used to steer the user's hand toward an object of interest. A study shows an almost ... > full story -
App Protects Facebook Users from Hackers
October 9, 2012 A new app to detect spam and malware posts on Facebook users' walls was found to be highly accurate, fast and efficient, new study ... > full story -
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An Operating System in the Cloud: TransOS Could Displace Conventional Desktop Operating Systems
October 9, 2012 A new cloud-based operating system for all kinds of computer is being ... > full story -
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Robots Using Tools: Researchers Aim to Create 'MacGyver' Robot
October 9, 2012 Robots are increasingly being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments, but they aren't yet able to interact with their environments as well as humans. If ... > full story
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