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- How birds master courtship songs: Zebra finches shed light on brain circuits and learning
- Sex matters: Men recognize cars and women recognize living things best, psychological analysis finds
- Improved positioning indoors
- Damaged metal surfaces repair themselves
- The jacket that talks to Facebook in an emergency
- Canadian homes a kill zone for up to 22 million birds a year, researchers estimate
| How birds master courtship songs: Zebra finches shed light on brain circuits and learning Posted: 17 Sep 2012 02:31 PM PDT By studying how birds master songs used in courtship, scientists have found that regions of the brain involved in planning and controlling complex vocal sequences may also be necessary for memorizing sounds that serve as models for vocal imitation.  |
| Sex matters: Men recognize cars and women recognize living things best, psychological analysis finds Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:20 AM PDT Women are better than men at recognizing living things and men are better than women at recognizing vehicles. That is the unanticipated result of an analysis psychologists performed on data from a series of visual recognition tasks collected in the process of developing a new standard test for expertise in object recognition.  |
| Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:31 AM PDT Whether you're walking, biking or driving, navigation systems can help you get from A to B – as long as you have a GPS signal. To find our way around large and complex buildings like hospitals or airports, we often need to rely on vague signs. Researchers have now come up with a new technology. The NAVVIS system uses visual information and realistic 3D images to point users in the right direction.  |
| Damaged metal surfaces repair themselves Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT A coating filled with tiny lubricant capsules could come to the rescue when metal surfaces dry out and friction builds up.  |
| The jacket that talks to Facebook in an emergency Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT In an emergency situation, we cannot expect rescue crews to do their jobs while fumbling with a tiny mobile phone when they need to read and send messages. Instead the scientists decided to create a prototype jacket that could communicate with Facebook.  |
| Canadian homes a kill zone for up to 22 million birds a year, researchers estimate Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT Researchers estimate a staggering 22 million birds die from colliding with windows of homes across Canada annually.  |
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