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  Effects Of Brain Exercise Depend On Opponent

  February 3, 2009 — Playing games against a computer activates different brain areas from those activated when playing against a human opponent. New research has shown that the belief that one is playing against a ... > full story
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
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  Anthropology
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  Evolution
   
  

  Early Humans Had 'Jaws Of Steel'

  February 3, 2009 — New research reveals nut-cracking abilities in our 2.5-million-year-old relatives that enabled them to alter their diet to adapt to changes in food sources in their environment. Computer simulation ... > full story
• Statistics
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  Testbeds To Breed Next-Generation Systems

  January 28, 2009 — The systems that let you zap a photo to a friend, or an astronomer to control a telescope continents away, require intensive simulation and testing. European research has now made those key steps far ... > full story
• Early Birds
  Birds
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  Extinction
  Bird Flu Research
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  Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains

  January 27, 2009 — The Cretaceous--Tertiary mass extinction 65 million years ago may have wiped out the dinosaurs, but those that survived -- the ancestors of today's birds -- may have done so because of their bird ... > full story
• Virtual Environment
  Child Psychology
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  ADD and ADHD
   
  

  Cell Phones Dangerous For Child Pedestrians, Study Finds

  January 26, 2009 — Children who talk on cell phones while crossing streets are at a higher risk for injuries or death in a pedestrian accident, said ... > full story
• Virtual Reality
  Today's Healthcare
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  'Virtual Patient' Helps Train Pharmacists Of The Future

  January 22, 2009 — Scientists have developed a “virtual patient” to help train the pharmacists of the ... > full story
• Fitness
  Today's Healthcare
  Virtual Reality
  Wounds and Healing
  Video Games
  Computer Modeling
   

  Virtual Reality: Keyhole Surgeons Training Could Help Meet European Working Time Directives

  January 20, 2009 — Trainee surgeons who add virtual-reality training to standard "apprenticeship" training in key-hole surgery learn more quickly, work with greater accuracy and have less errors than those with no ... > full story
• Virtual Reality
  Computer Programming
  Computer Science
  Mobile Computing
  Distributed Computing
  Math Puzzles
   

  Pervasive Collaboration For Highly Dispersed And Mobile Business Teams

  January 12, 2009 — Highly dispersed and mobile teams are the definition of modern business, but organizing them is a hard problem. Now European researchers have developed a service bundle that could make virtual team ... > full story
• Today's Healthcare
  Wounds and Healing
  Fitness
  Medical Imaging
  Cosmetic Surgery
  Birth Control
   

  New Training Method Helps Surgeons Evaluate Their Own Minimally Invasive Surgery Skills

  January 12, 2009 — Recent years have seen the rapid emergence of minimally invasive surgery procedures in operating theatres. However, the training of surgeons in this field still leaves much to be desired. Researchers ... > full story
• Information Technology
  Computer Modeling
  Hacking
  Computer Science
  Encryption
  Computer Programming
   
  

  New Computer Program Enables Powerful Data Analysis On Small Computers

  January 8, 2009 — A powerful new tool that can extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex data sets has been developed. The tool -- a set of problem-solving calculations known as an algorithm -- ... > full story

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