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You must be very familiar with the old style YouTube player and by now you must have come to terms with it and perhaps even love it (not the marriage type of love, let's get things straight). It was like an old dear friend you knew you could rely on to be there and support you whenever you needed him to do somet... |
13 November 2007
08:31 GMT |
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Every autumn we look in melancholy at the falling leaves. But before falling, the leaves get yellow and orange with shades of red. But why this diversity in the color of the fallen leaves? The undergraduate research project of Emily Habinck at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, revealed that the color of ... |
1 November 2007
04:20 GMT |
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Not all the people are perceived in the same manner by elephants. A Maasai warrior clothing can induce dread in African elephants, driving them to the safety of tall grasses. These war shepherds occasionally spear elephants as a sign of virility (in fact, a Maasai is not considered a man till he has not killed a lion... |
22 October 2007
07:22 GMT |
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This is the chameleon of the non-living materials: a newly structured gel created by a MIT team can quickly shift color reacting to an array of stimuli, from temperature to pressure, salt concentration and humidity."Among other applications, the structured gel could be used as a fast and inexpensive chemical sensor,"... |
22 October 2007
05:18 GMT |
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1. The Chameleons' closest relatives are ...the iguanas and dragon lizards (Agamidae). In fact, there are iguanas living in Americas called false chameleons, that resemble a lot the real chameleons of the Old World, and even have the ability of changing their color. The oldest known chameleon is the Mimeosaurus,... |
20 October 2007
07:53 GMT |
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Amongst many theories trying to explain the humans' physical appearance is that of the marine ape. But a new research reveals the oldest evidence of Homo sapiens living 164,000 years ago on the sea shore and feeding on sea food. Besides the so-called 'beach party', the new research shows a much more ad... |
18 October 2007
07:07 GMT |
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Plants can be compared to nice human bodies: their colors reflect the plant's health. A plant's main pigments are of two types: caretonoids, the 'precursors' of the vitamin A that give yellow-orange-red hues and anthocyanins that create blue-red hues. A new research has made a crucial advance in ... |
3 October 2007
05:41 GMT |
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Researchers have just reached a profound conclusion: machines imitating human performances will do the same errors that we do. A vision computer program based on the human brain experiences the same optical illusions that people do, pointing to the fact that the illusions are a by-product of how during the infant sta... |
28 September 2007
06:50 GMT |
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The rain has come and with it the gloomy days. If you're not an emo, this kind of weather will probably put your enthusiasm to rest and will make you wanna sleep all day.In this case, you kind of need a bit of color in your life. If you're not a kid to play with colorful pencils and TV just isn't quite... |
21 September 2007
09:39 GMT |
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The mysterious smile of Mona Lisa (Gioconda) now has run out of secrets, at least for the scientists. What made the paintings of the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) so special was the fact that he did not mix the colors on the palette but directly on the canvas, as found by an Ital... |
3 September 2007
04:49 GMT |
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First thing's first. If you have already seen a pic of this game, then you think this is a game with worms. Well, it's not. And if you went further and thought that this could be a game like those "Worms" you're even more wrong. This game has nothing to do with worms of any kind.So these creatures that... |
31 August 2007
03:05 GMT |
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After the launch of the colorful line of notebooks that received the name XPS M1330, Dell starting having problems with the quality of the paint finish that was applied on the notebook casings and after many delays and a considerable number of unhappy customers, the hardware manufacturing company decided to cut the n... |
27 August 2007
09:37 GMT |
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Gay preference for pink is not casual. The belief that pink is for girls and blue for boys has got scientific support. At least women prefer more reddish hues than men do. It appears that color preference in women evolved in part to help females spot rapidly ripe fruit, as these tend to get reddish. "Both sexes find ... |
21 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Chairs and tables that constantly change their color in your house to match your mood sounds like… magic!Dreamed up by a Japanese design company, the Fuwapica furniture follows with the power of technology one of the country's ancient notions that gods inhabit every manmade artifact. The designers said that the ... |
9 August 2007
11:23 GMT |
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Drawing is an activity we perform almost involuntarily as children and while reading, playing instruments, filming and taking photos are passively substituted to computer-based activities, drawing seems to be the next to become so. Children today have their first mouse click and scroll experiences before holding cra... |
31 July 2007
16:27 GMT |
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A new color-changing technology could have many practical applications, from letting you know if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply by stretching it to see if it changes hue, to showing you what food in your fridge is spoiled.Developed by scientists at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and the ... |
26 July 2007
11:07 GMT |
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ColorWare will make it possible for the new iPhone owners to bring some color in their lives together with the new mobile phone purchase. People will have the chance of choosing from almost 30 color combinations to dress their handset in.The iPhone looked sleek and elegant in black when first images of it have been r... |
20 July 2007
06:43 GMT |
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Normally, people have three types of cone cells for daylight, for detecting different colors. But some women can see extra colors as they have four types of cone cell receptors. They are called tetrachromats. Compared to them, we all are color blind.The first tetrachromat woman was discovered by researchers at Cambri... |
26 June 2007
14:16 GMT |
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This week's game is one that many of you already like. It has a very well known game-play... same old action-puzzle casual stuff.But nobody cares if the theme is expired, because everybody knows how addictive this game-play is. The rules of the game are easy to learn and in these kinds of cases, the graphics of ... |
1 June 2007
15:24 GMT |
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Silk and purple (a pigment obtained from a marine snail) were two of the most costly products of the antiquity, as purple silk was the mark of royalty. Now a Japanese team has genetically engineered silkworms to directly synthesize purple silk. This research would change the silk color at the genetic level. "The expe... |
10 May 2007
09:24 GMT |
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Your mother tongue has a greater impact on your life than you would have thought. It is proven that you perceive musical rhythm according to its rhythm. Now, researchers prove it influences your sensory abilities: a new research in color perception shows that mother tongue language dictates how you see your surroundi... |
1 May 2007
18:06 GMT |
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Want sex? Put on the showiest clothing, drive the shiniest car, display the catchiest tattoos and maybe you'll get some. Or at least you have tried. But that's, in fact, an ancestral animal trait; that we still have to do it. Just look at the bright colors in feathers, scales, faces, or insect wings. But i... |
28 April 2007
06:25 GMT |
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The age of a star says a lot about its traits, that's why this is one of the first goals of the astronomers when they detect a new one. "The ages of the host stars of planetary systems are needed to understand how these systems change over time," said Sydney Barnes, from Lowell Observatory. Till now researchers ... |
27 April 2007
05:57 GMT |
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These efficient killers have not changed since the dinosaur era. They present sophisticated sensory organs yet scientists believed sharks and their relatives, rays (which are nothing more than flattened sharks) are color-blind. Now a team at University of Queensland has revealed that stingrays could be able to see i... |
11 April 2007
08:37 GMT |
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We live in a green world, but the ancient Earth could have been wrapped in a purple mantle. The eldest microbes might have employed another molecule than chlorophyll to get advantage of the Sun's energy. Chlorophyll absorbs mainly blue and red wavelengths of the sunlight and as it reflects green ones, the plants... |
11 April 2007
05:52 GMT |
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A novel class of smart sunglasses can change instantly into virtually any color at will just by acting on a minute electronic knob on their frames. "We've developed lenses that aren't like anything else on the market. This could be the fashion statement of the future," said researcher Chunye Xu, a chemical ... |
28 March 2007
03:27 GMT |
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Roses are flowers with history. Since Roman times, they became symbols. Red roses stand for passion, white roses represent purity. Rose cultivators have been struggling for centuries to breed a blue rose, but the mechanism of the flowers' color proved more complex than they thought. But the Australian based Flor... |
26 March 2007
04:08 GMT |
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The invisible soldier is the dream of any troop commander. But till an invisibility cloak will be created, a science project realized by two school students could very well become an important defense strategy employed by soldiers. Using the so-called electrochromism, the students have made a soldier's uniform t... |
24 March 2007
08:22 GMT |
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The basic idea of a plasma display is to illuminate tiny colored fluorescent lights to form an image. Each pixel (the tiny dots on the display) is made up of three fluorescent lights - a red light, a green light and a blue light - which are evenly distributed on the screen. By combining these colors in different prop... |
19 March 2007
11:41 GMT |
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Lighting without power would mean smaller energy bills. A wonderful dream, isn't it?Or not just a dream, as a Japanese team developed phosphorescent materials that shine with the whole visible specter and can even produce white light.The researchers from Ryukoku University, Kyoto, say the new material could be e... |
14 March 2007
05:34 GMT |
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