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Which Way does the Leaf Go? Drawing Apple Logos

31/03/2015

People's memory, even for extremely common objects, is much poorer than they believe it to be....

Shifty Eyes. Influencing Moral Decisions By Tracking the Gaze

17/03/2015

Moral decisions can be influenced by tracking moment to moment movements of the eyes during deliberation...

Composing With Particle Interactions. How Does the Invisible Sound?

04/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is a lot going on in Q07, particularly for a record which qualifies wholeheartedly as ambient noodling. Thanks to the obliging...

nose by freedigitalphotos.net and luigi diamanti

Towards An Electronic Nose

17/01/2015

Scientists develop a new generation of biosensors with an acute ability to sniff out problems. ...

Your Computer or Your Family : Who Knows You Better?

14/01/2015

Given enough Likes, the computers came closer to a person's self-reported personality than their brothers, mothers or partners...

Chitosan : The Sustainable Crabby-Clingfilm

12/01/2015

Biodegradable and naturally-occurring, Chitosan offers a sustainable alternative to plastic food packaging....

Biofuel Gets Better

04/01/2015

Using a systems approach to identify protein-DNA interactions, scientists home in on more efficient biofuel sources....

Nano-Engineering New Knees…. Nice!

03/01/2015

Medical researchers may have found a way to integrate an artificial ligament with native bone using nanotechnology. ...

brain imaging by Lloyd Russell, Hausser lab, UCL

Re-Write Brain or Full Erase?

29/12/2014

We are very excited to use this technology to probe the basis of how groups of neurons and ultimately the brain stores and processes information...

The Smartphone Skillset

27/12/2014

The digital technology we use on a daily basis shapes the sensory processing in our brains ...

A picture of a laptop by Vicktor Hanacek

Internet Addiction Afflicts 6%

20/12/2014

The prevalence of Internet addiction varies among regions around the world...

A Sound So Loud it Bends Light

29/11/2014

The novel device platform could improve wireless communications systems using optical fibers ...

Bigger WiFi, Broader Broadband

27/11/2014

New WLAN networks might reach communication partners at a distance of several kilometers....

airport by www.freedigitalphotos.net and artur84

Blitzing Your Baggage: Terahertz Screening

25/11/2014

Screening devices using terahertz waves could make public spaces more secure than ever. Report...

Is Screenburn Hereditary?

22/11/2014

Screen time of children is significantly associated with parental screen time...

ANU tractor beam scientists by Stuart Hay/ANU

Biggest Ever Tractor Beam Unveiled

22/10/2014

The ANU tractor beam relies on the energy of the laser heating up the particles and the air around them. ...

A picture of tanks by freedigitalphotos.net/tongdang

Tweaking the Invisibility Cloak

14/10/2014

In this way, antennae and sensors could be made invisible or deceptive to remote inspection....

Fretful Smartphone Loss Trauma IS REAL!

23/08/2014

The loss of one's smart phone not only represents an immediate disconnection from one's online contacts but is also a potential privacy and security risk...

Automatic Art : Human & Machine Processes Make Art

07/08/2014

A historical overview of computation systems, the symbolic basis of process thought....

A picture of a video game joypad by Freedigitalphotos/Arvind Balaraman

Video Games Make Kids Bad (Again)

06/08/2014

Possible effects of violent video games go well beyond violence to apply to substance use, risky driving and risk-taking sexual behavior...

Smartphones Cause AIDS!

16/06/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapell, who’da thunk it? ‘Smartphone apps carry higher infection risk than online dating sites or clubs’. Even those...

Shatterproof Smartphone Screens Soon

09/06/2014

University of Akron polymer scientists have developed a transparent electrode that could make smartphone displays shatterproof....

Screentime Makes Kids Sick

23/05/2014

Regular exercise and avoiding excessive use of electronic media constitute efficient means of preventing type 2 diabetes and vascular diseases...

Armchair Activism (Apathy in the UK)

07/03/2014

Social media can activate interpersonal ties but won't necessarily turn ordinary citizens into hyper-activists...

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...

A picture of a cocktail by Freedigitalphotos.net/Maggie Smith

Vodka-Fuelled Texts. We’ve All Done It.

20/12/2013

Successfully text messaging 'O Canada' using evaporated vodka. Why ever not?...

Why Computers Can’t Tell Jokes

04/11/2013

Unlike digital computers, which are designed to follow rules, the computations performed by the neural networks that make up our brain are inherently context dependent...

What’s That Smell? Gaming and Ignored Body Signals

30/10/2013

What's that smell? Immersive video games can numb you to realizing important body signals in real life....

How Smartphones Can Ruin Your Career

27/10/2013

87 percent of people said answering a call was rarely or never acceptable in business meetings....

A picture of multicoloured lightsby Sean Keenan

Monocentric Lens for Pin-Sharp Surveillance

28/09/2013

'Next year, we'll build an 85-megapixel imager with a 120-degree field of view, more than a dozen sensors, and an F/2 lens – all in a volume 'roughly the size of a walnut'...

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