Electrically Stimulating the Brain Can Boost Visual Memory 110 Percent
Literally donning an electrode-studded thinking cap can improve your memory by 110 percent,
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Electrically Stimulating the Brain Can Boost Visual Memory 110 Percent
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New Anti-HIV Gel For Women Cuts AIDS Virus Transmission Chances in Half, Study Says
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New Brain-Protecting Compound Works in Rats; Could Make Alzheimer's a Distant Memory
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New Genetic Model Accurately Predicts Who's Likely to Live to 100
Image: Jeanne Louise Calment Lived to Age 122more>>
Neural Networks Designed to 'See' are Quite Good at 'Hearing' As Well
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Sony Glasses Track Eye Movement for Lightweight Wearable Lifelogging
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Video: Robotic Wheelchair Can Be Set to Automatically Follow A Human
Japanese researchers, never at a loss for concepts mashing up domestic and medical care with the best in robotics, has developed a robotic wheelchair that automatically
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World population to hit 7 billion next year
The Population Reference Bureau has projected that in 2011, the planet Earth will be home to more than seven billion living humans. At current growth rates, we'll top 9 billion in 2050. By that year, the population of Africa is expected to double, and that
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New anti-HIV gel for women cuts AIDS virus transmission chances in half, study says
In a potential breakthrough in the prevention of AIDS, researchers are reporting today that a vaginal gel containing an existing AIDS drug can cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner.
The women involved in the study used it only
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New brain-protecting compound works in rats; could make Alzheimer's a distant memory
Researchers at Texas Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a compound that could potentially render Alzheimer's a thing of the past. After testing 1,000 different molecules on the memory hubs of rats suffering from memory loss, scientists there have come up
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New genetic model accurately predicts who's likely to live to 100
In 1997, Jeanne Louise Calment of France died at the age of 122, making her the oldest documented human to have ever lived. People who live to be 100 years or older are rare, and only about 1 in 600,000 people in industrialized nations live that long. But is there something
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The new face of autism therapy
In a small, sparsely furnished room, a young boy in a black T-shirt backs himself into a corner. He's cautious. Cameras capture his movements, and microphones record every sound. But this doesn't intimidate him; he doesn't even seem aware that he's being observed. His
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Neural networks designed to 'see' are quite good at 'hearing' as well
Neural networks -- collections of artificial neurons or nodes set up to behave like the neurons in the brain -- can be trained to carry out a variety of tasks, often having something to do with pattern or sequence recognition. As such, they have shown great promise in
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Sony glasses track eye movement for lightweight wearable lifelogging
Have you been dying to capture your entire life on video, but worried you'll look like a weirdo with all those cameras and devices attached to you? Now you can just don your favorite pair of nerd glasses
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UK school replaces library cards for kids with fingerprint scans
We already know that biometrics could provide some useful new tools for identifying approaching threats or tracking people moving through crowds. But what about
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Science Confirms the Obvious: Men Look At Porn
Also: The Sky is Blue, Water is Wet?
An overseas study into the differences between the
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New anti-HIV gel for women cuts AIDS virus transmission chances in half, study says
In a potential breakthrough in the prevention of AIDS, researchers are reporting today that a vaginal gel containing an existing AIDS drug can cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner.
The women involved in the study used it only
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Electrically Stimulating the Brain Can Boost Visual Memory 110 Percent
Literally donning an electrode-studded thinking cap can improve your memory by 110 percent,
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New brain-protecting compound works in rats; could make Alzheimer's a distant memory
Researchers at Texas Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a compound that could potentially render Alzheimer's a thing of the past. After testing 1,000 different molecules on the memory hubs of rats suffering from memory loss, scientists there have come up
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Finally, a subtle way to detect sarcasm online
It's an issue that has long tormented frequent text and email writers: How do I know if someone is being sarcastic? And, more importantly, will that person realise I was being sarcastic, or will they actually think I liked their cover version of Adam Ant complete with bongos and cowbell?
Sarcasm
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Neural networks designed to 'see' are quite good at 'hearing' as well
Neural networks -- collections of artificial neurons or nodes set up to behave like the neurons in the brain -- can be trained to carry out a variety of tasks, often having something to do with pattern or sequence recognition. As such, they have shown great promise in
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Danish Hotel Pays Its Guests to Generate Electricity on Exercise Bikes
Bored guests at a certain Crowne Plaza hotel can now skip the pricey mini-bar and hop on an exercise bike, generate some electricity, and earn some meal vouchers. The hotel in Copenhagen started the free meal idea as a way to boost guests' fitness and shrink their carbon footprint, according
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The Future of...the Hot Dog?
According to both common sense and the US Academy of Pediatrics, there are two truths about hot dogs which neither science nor industry can afford to ignore: kids love hot dogs, and hot dogs are the perfect size and shape for a child to choke
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National Institute of Standards and Technology Tests Spray-On Transistors, Finds Them Promising
In a discovery sure to help the development of solar panel and display technology, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have engineered transistors that they can airbrush
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Video: Robotic Wheelchair Can Be Set to Automatically Follow A Human
Japanese researchers, never at a loss for concepts mashing up domestic and medical care with the best in robotics, has developed a robotic wheelchair that automatically
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The Future of...the Hot Dog?
According to both common sense and the US Academy of Pediatrics, there are two truths about hot dogs which neither science nor industry can afford to ignore: kids love hot dogs, and hot dogs are the perfect size and shape for a child to choke
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World Expo 2010 Shanghai: We're Here
Remember World's Fairs? Those dazzling displays of self-cleaning kitchens, rocket cars and robotic servants--the futures we'd all be living in around, well, now? Whose effervescence and ability to captivate seemed to have fizzled into nothingness long ago?
Well, they're back--having never
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Google Invests in Startup that Predicts the Future
You might think Google knows all there is to know, but apparently Google doesn't think so. The company is now seeking to know the unknowable, having just sunk an undisclosed amount
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Neural networks designed to 'see' are quite good at 'hearing' as well
Neural networks -- collections of artificial neurons or nodes set up to behave like the neurons in the brain -- can be trained to carry out a variety of tasks, often having something to do with pattern or sequence recognition. As such, they have shown great promise in
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Mammoth Project to Digitize the Tree of Life Could Uncover Thousands of New Species
Microsoft's Photosynth software will help scan and catalog 3-D models of specimens for analysis over the Web, anywhere
Digitizing the Tree of Life: Chip Clark/National
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Next Year, Give Your Valentine Custom-Engineered Flowers With Bespoke Scents
A root-beer bouquet, anyone?
Future guys and gals looking for a sweet-smelling bouquet for Valentine's
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Campbell's Uses Neuromarketing To Design New Soup Can Labels
For over a hundred years, Campbell's Soup cans have sported the iconic label inspired
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Researchers Claim They Can Translate Infant Cries, But is it Just Noise?
Though it's highly uncertain that they would have anything interesting to say, for some reason
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Chinese Scientists Would Feel "Blind" if Google Pulled Out
Scientists don't want to see Google go bai bai
Most Chinese citizens may still rely on
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I'm Sad Speed Skiing Isn't an Olympic Sport
With the Olympics drawing to a close, I just realized something--we didn't see any speed
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