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- Tiny airplanes and subs could be next hurricane hunters
- Bringing cheaper, 'greener' lighting to market with inkjet-printed hybrid quantum dot LEDs
- Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
- Mental block: Professor discovers way to alter memory
- Never forget a face? Researchers find women have better memory recall than men
- White-tailed deer and the science of yellow snow
- An 'extinct' frog makes a comeback in Israel
- Metamaterials: Leading light waves astray
- Dogs, humans affected by OCD have similar brain abnormalities
| Tiny airplanes and subs could be next hurricane hunters Posted: 04 Jun 2013 12:33 PM PDT Scientists envision a day when unmanned vehicles will swarm over, under and through hurricanes to help predict the strength and path of the storms. |
| Bringing cheaper, 'greener' lighting to market with inkjet-printed hybrid quantum dot LEDs Posted: 04 Jun 2013 10:54 AM PDT It's not easy going green. For home lighting applications, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) hold the promise of being both environmentally friendly and versatile. Though not as efficient as regular light-emitting diodes (LEDs), they offer a wider range of material choices and are more energy efficient than traditional lights. OLEDs can also be applied to flexible surfaces, which may lead to lights or television displays that can be rolled up and stowed in a pocket. |
| Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home Posted: 04 Jun 2013 10:42 AM PDT Researchers have shown it's possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the human body or cameras. Using a Wi-Fi router and a few wireless devices in the living room, users could control their electronic devices from any room in the home with a simple gesture. |
| Mental block: Professor discovers way to alter memory Posted: 04 Jun 2013 10:42 AM PDT A series of studies shows it is possible to manipulate an existing memory simply by suggesting new or different information. The key is timing and recall of that memory. |
| Never forget a face? Researchers find women have better memory recall than men Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:39 AM PDT New research suggests women can remember faces better than men, in part because they spend more time studying features without even knowing it. And, researchers say a technique can help improve anyone's memories. |
| White-tailed deer and the science of yellow snow Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:39 AM PDT New research from wildlife ecologists indicates that white-tailed deer may be making the soil in their preferred winter homes unfit to grow the very trees that protect them there. |
| An 'extinct' frog makes a comeback in Israel Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:34 AM PDT The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years and turns out to be a unique "living fossil," without close relatives among other living frogs. |
| Metamaterials: Leading light waves astray Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:46 AM PDT The development of structured synthetic materials with unusual electromagnetic properties, so-called metamaterials, promises to provide access to special physical effects of great technological interest. Metamaterials have already been fabricated that have a negative refractive index for electromagnetic waves -- bending them in the opposite sense to light waves entering water, for instance -- which opens up completely novel opportunities for the manipulation of light. One of these makes it possible, in principle, to create cloaking devices that seem to make objects disappear. Indeed, such an invisibility cloak has already been realized for microwaves. |
| Dogs, humans affected by OCD have similar brain abnormalities Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:38 AM PDT Another piece of the puzzle to better understand and treat obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) has fallen into place with the publication of new research that shows that the structural brain abnormalities of Doberman pinschers afflicted with canine compulsive disorder (CCD) are similar to those of humans with OCD. The research suggests that further study of anxiety disorders in dogs may help find new therapies for OCD and similar conditions in humans. |
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