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Not All Today's Students Are 'Tech-Savvy'
April 22, 2012 — A small minority of today’s university students don’t use email and others are confused by the array of technologies available at universities. Yet many students couldn’t bear to be ... > full story -
Raising the Prospects for Quantum Levitation
April 18, 2012 — An eerie quantum force may one day help separate the surfaces in tiny machines for frictionless movement. More than half-a-century ago, the Dutch theoretical physicist Hendrik Casimir calculated that ... > full story -
It Doesn’t Mean You’re Crazy – Talking to Yourself Has Cognitive Benefits, Study Finds
April 17, 2012 — Most people talk to themselves at least every few days, and many report talking to themselves on an hourly basis. What purpose is served by this seemingly irrational behavior? Previous research has ... > full story -
'Sounds of Silence' Proving a Hit: World's Fastest Random Number Generator
April 13, 2012 — Researchers in Australia have developed the fastest random number generator in the world by listening to the 'sounds of silence'. The researchers have tuned their very sensitive light detectors to ... > full story -
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Grid-Based Computing to Fight Neurological Disease
April 11, 2012 — Grid computing, long used by physicists and astronomers to crunch masses of data quickly and efficiently, is making the leap into the world of biomedicine. Researchers have networked hundreds of ... > full story -
Chips as Mini Internets: Data-Routing Techniques That Undergird Internet Could Increase Efficiency of Multicore Chips
April 10, 2012 — The data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements. Today, a typical chip might have six or eight cores, ... > full story -
Interrogational Torture: Effective or Purely Sadistic?
March 28, 2012 — While government officials have argued that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are necessary to protect American citizens, the effectiveness of such techniques has been debated. According to a ... > full story -
Using Virtual Worlds to 'Soft Control' People's Movements in the Real One
March 16, 2012 — Computer science researchers have developed a way to exert limited control on how people move, pushing them out of their regular travel patterns. The key: tapping into some of their cell phone ... > full story -
Scientists Identify Neural Activity Sequences That Help Form Memory, Decision-Making
March 14, 2012 — Researchers have used a novel virtual reality and brain imaging system to detect a form of neural activity underlying how the brain forms short-term memories that are used in making ... > full story -
Tiny Teeth of Long-Extinct Vertebrate – With Tips Only Two Micrometers Across -- Are Sharpest Dental Structures Ever
March 14, 2012 — The tiny teeth of a long-extinct vertebrate -- with tips only two micrometers across: one twentieth the width of a human hair -- are the sharpest dental structures ever measured, new research has ... > full story
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