This week, the social media world reached two milestones: Facebook announced it reached 1 billion…
Month: October 2012
Education: Get with the computer program
From email to Twitter, blogs to word processors, computer programs provide countless communications opportunities. While…
Mechanism of opiate addiction is completely different from other drugs
Chronic morphine exposure has the opposite effect on the brain compared to cocaine in mice,…
Hubble sees cosmic riches
A dazzling new image shows the globular cluster Messier 69, or M 69 for short,…
Training computers to understand the human brain
Researchers use fMRI datasets to train a computer to predict the semantic category of an…
Scratching the surface: Engineers examine UV effects on skin mechanics
Using mechanical stress testing methods common in materials science, researchers found that UV rays also…
Testing can be useful for students and teachers
While testing can be useful as an assessment tool, researchers suggests that the actual process…
Weather-making high-pressure systems predicted to intensify
High-pressure systems over oceans, which largely determine the tracks of tropical cyclones and hydrological extremes…
What number is halfway between 1 and 9? Is it 5 — or 3?
A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities…
How will smart cars affect the future of driving?
California, Nevada, and Florida have already made driverless cars street-legal, and continuing advances in the…