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The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.

21 September 2012 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk:

he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system that, in combination

… Read the rest “The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.”

The mere anticipation of an interaction with a woman can impair men’s cognitive performance.

19 September 2012 grant 1

No one can possibly do better than the Archives of Sexual Behavior in describing this study. The article’s headline says all it needs to:

The mere anticipation of an interaction with

… Read the rest “The mere anticipation of an interaction with a woman can impair men’s cognitive performance.”

Medical science: Not all it’s cracked up to be

19 September 2012 grant 0

Me, I love science. New Scientist does too. So it makes us feel weird to point out that a lot of the time, it just doesn’t work:

many recent reports have raised the alarm that a shocking

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Demotic dictionary, for ancient expressions.

18 September 2012 grant 0

New York Times reviews a new dictionary of a really old language:

Demotic was one of the three scripts inscribed on the Rosetta stone, along with Greek and hieroglyphs, enabling European

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Message in a bottle. From 98 years ago.

17 September 2012 grant 0

The Atlantic reports on a record-breaking experiment that is reaching a conclusion nearly a century after it started… when a Scottish fisherman found a message in a bottle tossed… Read the rest “Message in a bottle. From 98 years ago.”

Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.

16 September 2012 grant 0

That’s Homo heidelbergensis stopping for a quick sip of water, as imagined by Zdenek Burian.

Zdenek Burian was possibly Eastern Europe’s (and maybe the world’s) most… Read the rest “Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.”

The mushrooms that make the weather.

14 September 2012 grant 1

Time travels to the Amazon to reveal the fungi that creates the clouds:

The clouds in the Amazon, just like everywhere else, consist of water vapor clinging to tiny clumps of carbon compounds.

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Richard loves Richard, that is, I and I….

13 September 2012 grant 0

New Scientist may have uncovered the bones of Richard III, the king either most villainous or most misunderstood of Plantangenet:

What exactly has been found?
The body of an adult male has

… Read the rest “Richard loves Richard, that is, I and I….”

They call Alzheimer’s “type-3 diabetes” – because it’s caused by junk food.

12 September 2012 grant 0

Guardian reports on the growing body of evidence that Alzheimer’s disease comes from what we eat – that the senility disease might actually be caused by junk food:

About 35

… Read the rest “They call Alzheimer’s “type-3 diabetes” – because it’s caused by junk food.”

The shiniest living thing.

11 September 2012 grant 0

Cambridge researchers have determined that an iridescent berry is the brightest thing in nature:

The ‘brightest’ thing in nature, the Pollia condensata fruit, does not get its blue colour

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The reefs are collapsing.

10 September 2012 grant 0

Guardian takes a look underwater, and what it sees (and, more importantly, what scientists are seeing) really doesn’t look good:

The decline of the reefs has been rapid: in the 1970s,

… Read the rest “The reefs are collapsing.”

Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922

9 September 2012 grant 0

This, the text tells me, is an “outside-spring indicator, by Messrs. Elliott Bros.” The spring is not exposed to high temperature, which makes it better for indicating. I’m… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 100 (Outside-Spring Indicator) from Steam-engine Theory and Practice by William Ripper, 1922”

Flying robot maps Surprise Valley

7 September 2012 grant 0

Yep. Scientific American has more on the unmanned aircraft that NASA and the USGS is using to explore the alien landscape of northeastern California:

Yesterday marked the first day of the

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The robot knows itself.

6 September 2012 grant 0

Machines, BBC reports, are one step closer to personhood, thanks to Yale researchers inventing Nico, a robot who knows himself:

“It is a spatial reasoning task for the robot to understand

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Climbing cukes clinch kinky springs.

5 September 2012 grant 0

Say that five times fast. Harvard Gazette wraps its tendrils around a new way to build springs based on the coiling shoots of cucumber vines:

Harvard researchers, captivated by a strange

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