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• New system combines video streams from multiple cellphone cameras

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 24 (ANI): Cellphones are frequently used for making videos during public events or street performances. Now, Microsoft researchers in Cairo have came up with a novel way to combine the video from multiple phones taken from the same scene into larger, more detailed footage to be broadcast live ...
  2 days ago

• Tiger Woods and our obsession with celebrities

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The tabloids, magazines and newspapers are full of articles about Tiger Woods personal life, with particular reference to the recent crash surrounding his admitted infidelity. Why should this occurrence, despite the publics knowledge that approximately 70% of married men admit cheating on their spouses? Why do we ...
  5 days ago

• Cooking is what made us human, says expert

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 20 (ANI): Richard Wrangham, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, argues that cooking is the major factor in human evolution. In his book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, he shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods is what makes us human.Wrangham first explained why couldn’t a ...
  6 days ago

• Dark Squib

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 515
  After today’s lengthy pre-Christmas traipse around Cardiff in the freezing cold, I don’t think I can summon up the energy for a lengthy post today. However, today’s cryogenic temperatures did manage to remind me that I hadn’t closed the book on a previous story about rumours of a laboratory detection of dark ...
  1 week ago

• more Tory climate change denialism

  
  punkscience — Authority: 418
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Making the front page of The Express shouldnt make many people proud but the European Foundation, a Euroskeptic thinktank directed by a fistful of august Tory characters, have made it and also garnered column inches in The Telegraph ...
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• Microsoft Crowdsources Streaming Video

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 754
  Microsoft has devised a way of stitching multiple live video streams from individual cell-phones at major events into a single widescreen broadcast. Services such as Qik and UStream are growing increasingly popular as people share live video from concerts and sporting events around the world, although actual ...
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• The Church of Settled Science’s newly and aptly named journal

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 439
  New Scientist becomes Non Scientist It’s too easy. If you are a CO2-is-the-cause-of-global-warming scientist there is nothing you can do that is outside the bounds of normal science. New Scientist will defend you. — JoNova And from WUWT , read about the connection between the corrupt scientists ...
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• A Christmas Quiz

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 493
  The Christmas issue of New Scientist features a quiz created by Wellcome Library staff. We were asked to chose items from our Image Library and also to create false descriptions for them. Can you tell the real descriptions from the fake? (For example, is what you see above an ether dispenser, an enema ...
  1 week ago

• New Media

  
  Curator's Corner — Authority: 133
  New Scientist has a small gallery up of art created using microbes. Whats most interesting is that it isnt really found art, the way you might think. Instead, it includes people like Erno-Erik Raitanen , less a scientist than an artist who makes use of science to create works as conceptual as they are oddly ...
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• DSM-V: Suggestions for Change

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 558
  With the recent announcement (PDF) by the American Psychiatric Association of a one year delay for the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM, as it’s known), a new round of commentary and articles have appeared questioning the usefulness of the DSM. The DSM is used ...
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• New Scientist [magazine] becomes Non Scientist

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  This could be humor, but the fraud and cost makes it very serious!JoNova is a freelance science presenter & writer: Professional speaker, author, and former TV host. The Skeptics Handbook: 164,000 copies printed.Click here or the image to view the page.Good Hunting... from Varmint Al Original Article: Forum: ...
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• LCD screen that works by interpreting hand gestures

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Dec 16 (ANI): Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a novel LCD screen that works by interpreting hand gestures, without touching the screen.They insist viewers can control on-screen objects by waving their arms in the air without touching the screen, let alone a mouse or ...
  1 week ago

• Paralysed man successfully controls speech synthesiser with thought

  
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  London, Dec 16 (ANI): In what could be a revolution in communication for paralysed people, a man with locked-in syndrome has “spoken” three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by an implant deep in his brain.Scientists have said that if they could add more sounds to the repertoire of brain ...
  1 week ago

• First-borns ‘more successful but less trusting’

  
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  London, Dec 10 (ANI): A new study by researchers in France has shown that first-born kids are more likely to be successful but at the cost of being less co-operative and less trusting as compared to their younger siblings.The study, by researchers at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpelier, France, ...
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• Anti-HIV gel fails human trials

  
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  London, Dec 15 (ANI): An experimental vaginal gel has failed to prove effective against HIV in human trials.The anti-HIV gel called PRO 2000 contains a polymer of naphthalene sulphonate designed to physically prevent HIV from binding to cells lining the vagina. Women were given condoms to use in conjunction with it.A ...
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• Soon, flexible retinal implants to restore vision

  
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  London, Dec 15 (ANI): Scientists from Stanford University in California have developed what they call ‘flexible retinal implant’ that would help restore vision of people with certain forms of visual impairment.According to researcher Rostam Dinyari, conditions such as age-related macular degeneration occur when ...
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• Women develop emotion-reading superpowers during pregnancy

  
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  London, Dec 15 (ANI): A new study by scientists in the UK has shown that raging hormones during pregnancy not only prompt mood swings, but may also lead to a heightened ability to recognise threatening or aggressive faces.This may have evolved because it makes would-be mums hyper-vigilant, yet it could also make them ...
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• Fake red blood cells with agility of real cells created from polymers

  
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  London, Dec 15 (ANI): It will now be possible to make fake red blood cells from polymers, thanks to a University of California study led by an Indian origin researcher.Just like real blood cells, the imitations could squeeze through spaces much smaller than their own diameter and absorb and release substances to ...
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• 3D model simulates how dinos ran

  
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  London, December 15 (ANI): A computational zoologist at the University of Manchester, UK, has developed a new technique for simulating dinosaur movement in 3D and working out which gaits they most likely used.According to a report in New Scientist, Bill Sellers and his team used a laser scanner to create a 3D computer ...
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• How did dinosaurs move? Computer simulations have the answer

  
  Just A Theory — Authority: 119
  Another New Scientist article today: Did four-legged dinosaurs gallop like a horse, run like an ostrich or hop like a kangaroo? All three have been suggested, but with only fossils to go on it’s a difficult puzzle to solve. That’s why Bill Sellers, a computational zoologist at the University of Manchester, UK, ...
  1 week ago

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