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• Machine learning used to boil down the stories that wearable cameras are telling
• To touch the microcosmos: New haptic microscope technique allows researchers to 'feel' microworld
• 'Terminator' polymer: Self-healing polymer that spontaneously and independently repairs itself
• Tuna closely related to some of the strangest fish in the sea
• Model organism gone wild

Machine learning used to boil down the stories that wearable cameras are telling Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:40 AM PDT Computers will someday soon automatically provide short video digests of a day in your life, your family vacation or an eight-hour police patrol, say computer scientists. Researchers are working to develop tools to help make sense of the vast quantities of video that are going to be produced by wearable camera technology like Google Glass and Looxcie.

To touch the microcosmos: New haptic microscope technique allows researchers to 'feel' microworld Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:33 AM PDT What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the exploration of the worlds that are a million times smaller than human beings, researchers have unveiled a new technique that allows microscope users to manipulate samples using a technology known as "haptic optical tweezers."

'Terminator' polymer: Self-healing polymer that spontaneously and independently repairs itself Posted: 13 Sep 2013 07:18 AM PDT Scientists have reported the first self-healing polymer that spontaneously and independently repairs itself without any intervention. The researchers have dubbed the material a "Terminator" polymer in tribute to the shape-shifting, molten T-100 terminator robot from the Terminator 2 film.

Tuna closely related to some of the strangest fish in the sea Posted: 13 Sep 2013 06:39 AM PDT Some of the strangest fish in the sea are closely related to dinner table favorites the tunas and mackerels, an international team of scientists has found.

Model organism gone wild Posted: 13 Sep 2013 05:58 AM PDT Some wild clones of social amoebas farm the bacteria they eat, but this is a losing strategy if nonfarming amoebas can steal the farmers' crops. To make the strategy work, the farmers also carry bacteria that secrete chemicals that poison free riders. The work suggest farming is complex evolutionary adaptation that requires additional strategies, such as recruiting third parties, to effectively defend and privatize the crops.

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