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Now Computers Can Detect Your Pain

22/03/2014

A computer system spots real or faked expressions of pain more accurately than people can...

Football is ‘Subject to laws of Physics’ Shocker!

20/03/2014

A simple rule governs the complex dynamics of the ball and the team's front-line...

Jean-Claude Risset : Music from Computer

19/03/2014

Historic and serious works, thrilling but unacknowledged precedents for many of the textures that structure electronic music in the present day...

Fuel Your Truck With Alligator Fat

18/03/2014

Animal fats, including those from alligators, could give an economical, ecofriendly boost to the biofuel industry...

Play it Sam. You Played it Before….

15/03/2014

The brain's motor network helps people remember and recognize music that they have performed in the past better than music they have only heard...

The Genetics of Music Aptitude

13/03/2014

Multiple regions in the human genome are reported to be linked to musical aptitude...

Biological Tests for Happy Worker-bots

12/03/2014

Combining information obtained from questionnaires along with biological measures - to make you a sleeker, more efficient profit-unit....

Alan Turing’s (Only) Biology Theory Proven

11/03/2014

The first experimental evidence that validates Turing's theory in cell-like structures...

Maybe You Just Don’t Like Music

09/03/2014

Some otherwise healthy and happy people do not enjoy music and show no autonomic responses to its sound, despite normal musical perception capacities...

Stiff Little Fingers : Album/Tour

08/03/2014

Punk rock legends Stiff Little Fingers are set to tour the UK and Ireland in March 2014. Details...

A tree branch filter by Michael Boutilier and Jongho Lee

E. Coli – A Simple Solution

01/03/2014

A small piece of freshly cut sapwood can filter out more than 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli from water...

A picture of coffee by freedigitalphotos.netadamr

Cancer-Killing Coffee?

28/02/2014

Recent research has shown that caffeine also has a good side. It can kill cancer cells. ...

A picture of a water planet by David Aguilar

Water Everywhere. Even on Other Planets

27/02/2014

Water has been detected in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system with a new technique that could help researchers to learn how many planets with water, like Earth, exist ...

Plug Car In – Black City Out. Oops.

24/02/2014

The growing fleet of electric cars will put a lot of new strain on the United States' aging electrical distribution systems. News item...

A picture of a window and leaves by Martin Wessely

A New Leaf for Clean Hydrogen

19/02/2014

Designing an artificial leaf that uses solar energy to convert water cheaply and efficiently into hydrogen and oxygen ...

A picture of a pillow by freedigitalphotos.net/sattva

Why Do You Remember Your Dreams?

18/02/2014

The sleeping brain is not capable of memorising new information, so how do we remember dreams? News....

Brainscans showing anterior and posterior insula

What is Love? Ask a Neurologist

17/02/2014

Desire is a relatively concrete representation of sensory experiences, while love is a more abstract representation of those experiences...

…and Leave a Beautiful Corpse. Sunscreen Use

15/02/2014

Showing teenagers the cosmetic advantages rather than the health benefits results in a dramatic increase in the use of sunscreen...

Repackage Space Cakes, Save a Kid

09/02/2014

As more states decriminalize marijuana, lawmakers should consider requirements – such as child-resistant packaging, warning labels and public education...

You Lookin’ at My Bird?

07/02/2014

Jackdaw eyes are used as a warning signal to successfully deter competitors from coming near their nest boxes...

Papa Was a Rolling Stone : Seductive Mouse Songs

06/02/2014

Play me some new stuff. Female mice displayed an innate preference for male songs from different families. News item....

Audio software plagiarism detection interface by Fraunhofer IDMT

Unhand Those Beats! Software detects audio plagiarism

05/02/2014

Fraunhofer IDMT's "PlagiarismAnalyzer" detects identical melodies and samples (whole portions of a song) in a matter of seconds....

The Tides of Tatooine

03/02/2014

Powerful gravitational perturbations from the two stars on the rocky building blocks of planets lead to destructive collisions. ...

A picture of a snake by Freedigitalphotos.net/Michael Elliot

Flying Snakes, Flying

02/02/2014

The snake's body works like an aerofoil to generate lift forces to keep it airborne...

A picture of a jet turbine. Public domain

Salmonella May Prevent Asthma

26/01/2014

Researchers from Germany have identified the mechanism by which Salmonella infections can reduce the incidence of asthma in mice....

A picture of camera bits and pieces by Vadim Sherbakov

3D Printing Fiddly Microstructures

25/01/2014

3D Printing grows up. Researchers demonstrate the printing of three microsystems featuring mechanical, microfluidic and electrical functionalities...

Drilling into Magma for Geothermal Energy

24/01/2014

Drilling into magma is a very rare occurrence anywhere in the world and this is only the second known instance, the first one, in 2007, being in Hawaii...

A Touch of Froth : Beer Dynamics.

23/01/2014

New research explains beer's rapid transformation from a liquid to a foamy state as the result of an impact....

A picture of Godzilla in London by Dan Booth

Measuring Schrodinger’s Quantum Cats

22/01/2014

University of Rochester researchers develop a method to measure quantum states whilst avoiding the uncertainty principle....

Scotland’s Abundant Tidal Energy

20/01/2014

The Pentland Firth is a prime candidate to house marine power projects because of its tidal currents, which are among the fastest in the British Isles....

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