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Scientists based at the Rockefeller University in New York say that mathematics and geometric patterns are present in the natural world in unexpected forms. They apparently connect structure to function in leaves, which may help explain why the latter are so beautiful.
It's important to note here that the human... |
14 May 2012
08:05 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of California in Irvine (UCI) announces the development of a prediction tool that is capable of indicating wildfire severity and distribution patterns throughout South America months in advance. The tool can also be applied to the Amazon rainforest.
Using NASA funding, t... |
11 November 2011
04:25 GMT |
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All the people in the world may have originally had a common language, reveal experts who recently analyzed the amount of information contained in arrangements of words. They explain that this amount is consistent across Earth's languages. The correlation even holds true when taking into account languages that h... |
18 May 2011
04:23 GMT |
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Researchers from the United States recently managed to determine that our ability to form habits is in fact innate, and that this trait can be further refined and fine-tune by life experiences. The group, which is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) McGovern Institute for Brain Research, explain... |
26 October 2010
06:18 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that even slight changes in the social behavior patterns of animals can eventually led to the appearance of massive migrations.Experts say that the variations may arrange themselves in such a manner that they trigger a cascade of events that eventually leads to spe... |
17 September 2010
09:22 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Northwestern University, in the United States, has recently developed a new nanoscale fabrication technique, that could mean for the industry what the desktop printer meant for printing and information transfer. The method, called beam-pen lithography (BPL), uses about 15,000 tiny be... |
2 August 2010
03:33 GMT |
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The human brain has over the course of its evolution grown to such intricate complexity, that it continues to puzzle experts to this day. Most likely, it will continue doing the same for decades and centuries to come. In a recent series of studies, investigators at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in... |
5 June 2010
05:16 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying to obtain the perfect glare- and reflection-free displays for many years, but thus far their efforts have been in vain. Now, after turning to nature for inspiration, experts believe they may have just discovered a means of making these advanced devices a reality. They say that the only thi... |
26 May 2010
03:01 GMT |
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The Voyager 2 spacecraft is one of NASA's landmark missions, and the second reiteration of the successful Voyager 1 mission. The space probe is currently located no less than 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion kilometers) away from our planet, at the very edge of the solar system. It is constantly sending new data ... |
7 May 2010
02:50 GMT |
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Nature is a highly-diverse place, especially in the ecosystems that have been fortunate enough to escape human influence thus far. A simple trip to a thick rain forest will reveal a wealth of animals, each species sporting a specific type of coat. Fruit flies carry dots on their wings, whereas leopards carry spots, a... |
8 April 2010
02:59 GMT |
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Children who play a musical instrument are apparently able to distinguish sounds much better in a noisy environment, and also tend to be better at detecting the subtle changes in the tone of a person they are conversing with. Researchers believe that this increased ability comes from the fact that music can enhance t... |
22 February 2010
15:01 GMT |
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There is no doubt that teenagers today are exposed to many more things keeping them awake than people growing up in the 1990s or before were. Text messages, online chat rooms, streaming video online and other such activities make youngsters of today go to sleep later in the night, sleep less, and generally be more ti... |
17 February 2010
04:00 GMT |
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One of the main objectives in the robotics industry today is for the research community to develop a method of making robots able to switch their gait depending on the terrain ahead. While this comes absolutely natural to humans, it is extremely difficult to implement in artificial machines. Up until now, robots have... |
18 January 2010
01:27 GMT |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom, at the University of London, have recently released a new analysis on violent behavior, which follows the patterns that violence takes during conflicts. The findings could be of significant importance for preventing large numbers of casualties in future conflicts, the group says. In ... |
17 December 2009
04:16 GMT |
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Scientists were just given the go-ahead from sponsors and funders to embark on the largest music-related endeavor that a group has ever undertaken online. The goal of the Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Music Information (SALAMI) project is to allow experts to analyze more than 350,000 songs at the same time,... |
4 December 2009
11:02 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that building large dams on rivers may influence the local climate, to the extent that more weather extremes would occur over that specific region in the coming years. The finding is very worrisome for another reason too – many of these large dams are very old, and... |
4 December 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Scientists from the Harvard University, Hamamatsu Photonics, and ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, recently demonstrated multi-beam, multi-functional lasers for the first time. The compact device emits light in the infrared wavelength spectrum, and is able to take on multiple applications at the same time. The experts unde... |
1 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the Northwestern University have recently released the conclusion of a new study, showing that music lessons may help those people seeking to be able to distinguish sounds better in loud situations. The investigation comes on the heels of a previous one, which demonstrated that people who played, or had... |
13 November 2009
04:33 GMT |
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According to physicists, there is currently no scientific explanation available for the results of experiments involving placing beads inside small, narrow and spinning boxes. The patterns that are formed are very beautiful and intriguing indeed, but they cannot be explained by basic science, and merit further invest... |
29 October 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Over the past few years, geologists and planetary scientists have been saying that, in the near future, methods of predicting earthquakes more accurately, and further ahead, may become common throughout the world. However, as the years go by, this seems to less and less be the case. The vast majority of earthquake pr... |
29 October 2009
10:05 GMT |
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The amount of cosmic rays circulating in the solar system should be of interest to everyone. As the Sun gets weaker over the course of the solar minimum, more and more radiation reaches our planet, passes the atmosphere and heads down to the earth. Apparently, not all its effects are bad. Experts in the United Kingdo... |
19 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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In a more unusual study, experts at the Northwestern University (NU) looked at the similarities and differences in patterns of correspondence between modern-day e-mail writers and old-school letter writers. The investigation revealed striking similarities between the two types of writing, underlined by the same patte... |
26 September 2009
07:02 GMT |
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The age of science-fiction may not remain the product of overactive imagination for long. Scientists are already working on a method of extracting images people have seen, by tapping directly into their brain. After completing a modeling program that shows precisely how images are represented in the human brain, the ... |
25 September 2009
20:51 GMT |
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Being wary of dangers is, arguably, one of the things that allowed our once-fragile species to become strong enough to take over the planet. Our ancestors developed a large number of reflex and pattern-recognition connections in their brains, in order to maximize their chances of survival. But experts have always bee... |
25 September 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Irvine (UCI) have recently demonstrated, in a study on college students, that memories once thought lost actually still reside within the brain. The find was made using advanced brain-imaging techniques, the experts report in the latest issue of the journal Neuron. The ma... |
10 September 2009
19:11 GMT |
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While observing the behavior of Great White Sharks killing seals off the coasts of South Africa, wildlife experts were surprised to learn that the animals seemed to have a hunting strategy well set in place, which they rigorously followed, and that yielded them immediate return. The sharks would select an area from w... |
22 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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According to a group of environmentalists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the great blue whales, the largest animals to have ever lived on the planet, are beginning to reestablish their migration patterns around the globe. These lanes were disrupted by excessive human activity and ... |
12 May 2009
03:43 GMT |
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A new scientific study comes to show that the age at which children learn to read can be considered an early indicator of their reading habits later on in life. That is to say, the science team behind the research, based at the University of Leicester, believes that kids form their word- and symbol-recognition patter... |
7 May 2009
08:46 GMT |
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The ability that some animals have to change their appearance in such a manner that they will duplicate their surrounding is so amazing that scientists still can't figure it out completely. However, to their commendation, a group of researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), led by senior scientist... |
16 January 2009
06:33 GMT |
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University of Newcastle Psychologist Daniel Nettle conducted a study on more than 100,000 children, in an attempt to determine exactly how a father's involvement in raising the children influences the little ones during their early teen years. The paper, published in the November 28 issue of the journal Evolutio... |
8 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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