Doesn’t matter who you are or what you want, University Herald explains. The negotiator who asks for the specific number gets the upper hand:
… Read the rest “Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.”Research conducted by [Columbia Business
New Scientist explores the gentler side of our eventual mechanical overlords, as engineers create a sensor-studded skin for a gentle, sensitive robot:
… Read the rest “Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.”Most robots are taught to avoid
BBC puts on a big show about how smart folks’ brains filter out big background motions – a capacity that proves that intelligence is really… oh, look! What’s that… Read the rest “The smarter you are, the less you’ll be distracted by large-scale…. Wait, what was I saying?”
This is one way we might visit that rosy Saturn hurricane from last week.
It’s VASIMR, a rocket engine that uses plasma to go to faraway places without having to haul… Read the rest “Science Art: VASIMR (Variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket) ”
Or, Sci-News.com seems to be saying, a protein from breast milk at least undoes a certain level of antibiotic resistance in some pretty nasty germs:
… Read the rest “Breast milk makes antibiotics work better.”In petri dish and animal experiments,
The Telegraph reports on (or, at least, repeats Wired‘s reporting on) the dirigibles spreading the World Wide Web to places no internet has gone before:
… Read the rest “Google brings the internet to Africa. By blimp.”“To help enable the campaign,
By about four times, BBC reports. Using double beams of light quadruples the data capacity of fiber-optic cables:
… Read the rest “Twin beams of light make fiberoptics better.”What limits the distance a given light signal can go is how much power is
PhysOrg gives new meaning to “magic marker” with these pens that draw flexible circuits in whatever shape you like:
… Read the rest “Paint your own circuits with electronic pens.”London-based Bare Conductive Ltd. makes electrically
This is not actually a flower. It’s a giant hurricane – Saturn’s answer to Jupiter’s Big Red Spot.
From the NASA Image of the Day Gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “The Rose,” NASA Image of the Day Gallery,”This image
Science Daily draws a clearer map than ever before showing how complicated networks of neurons – not individual neurons – make thoughts happen:
… Read the rest “The shape of thoughts.”They do not correspond to a
PhysOrg goes *inside* the skull to figure out how – and how quickly – a dinosaur’s brain developed:
… Read the rest “A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.”Stephan Lautenschlager from Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences,
Singularity Hub reports on the pioneering surgery that used 3D printing to replace 75 percent of a patient’s skull:
… Read the rest “They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.”At the beginning of March of this year, a radical surgery was performed
A medical poster about pulmonary disease. I can’t read all the writing under it (other than “yi” ((one)) and “ren” ((person))), but after the cold I’ve… Read the rest “Science Art: Mei yi ge fei jie he bing ren…(Consumptive Disease), 1953.”
A couple months ago, NASA witnessed the largest impact on the Moon in 8 years:
… Read the rest “Something just blew up on the Moon.”“On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,”
Berkeley researchers have mapped out connections between the music we hear and the colors we see. That is, blues music really is blue, and Mozart’s Flute Concerto #1 is bright orange… Read the rest “Coloring in the blues.”
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