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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News

ScienceDaily: Strange Science News


iPhone turned into spiPhone: Smartphone senses nearby keyboard vibrations and deciphers sentences

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:13 AM PDT

Engineers have discovered how to program a smartphone to sense nearby keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80 percent accuracy.

Cells are crawling all over our bodies, but how?

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 10:13 AM PDT

For better and for worse, human health depends on a cell's motility -- the ability to crawl from place to place. In every human body, millions of cells are crawling around doing mostly good deeds -- though if any of those crawlers are cancerous, watch out.

Computing building blocks created from bacteria and DNA

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 08:19 AM PDT

Scientists have successfully demonstrated that they can build some of the basic components for digital devices out of bacteria and DNA, which could pave the way for a new generation of biological computing devices.

Seeing through walls: New radar technology provides real-time video of what’s going on behind solid walls

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:27 AM PDT

The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction, thanks to new radar technology. Researchers have built a system that can see through walls from some distance away, giving an instantaneous picture of the activity on the other side.

Can we share vampires' appetite for synthetic blood?

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:51 AM PDT

Vampires on the "True Blood" television series are already enjoying the advantages of synthetic blood. While this may seem to be only the imagination on the big screen, the true benefits of blood manufactured from embryonic stem cells may be less than a decade away.

Caveman politics: Has our violent history led to an evolved preference for physically strong political leaders?

Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:46 AM PDT

New research into evolutionary psychology suggests that physical stature affects our preferences in political leadership. The article reveals that a preference for physically formidable leaders, or caveman politics, may have evolved to ensure survival in ancient human history.

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