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Virtual Reality May Help Arm Minds for Combat
(PhysOrg.com) -- The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth received a federal grant to fund research examining brain performance enhancement in America`s fighting men and women through the use of state-of-the-art...
Darwin Meets Facebook: Social Networking Tool Lets Natural Historians Share Data
Natural history plans to chart life on earth, yet the discipline risks being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used. Now researchers at London's Natural...
Mood Improves On Low-fat, But Not Low-carb, Diet Plan
After one year, a low-calorie, low-fat diet appears more beneficial to dieters' mood than a low-carbohydrate plan with the same number of calories, according to a new report.
Reid Says Health Bill Will Be Done by Christmas
Other Democratic leaders said it seems unlikely President Obama will have a health bill to sign by the end of the year.
Inventing language
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the...
Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks
Smart phones -- like BlackBerrys and iPhones -- have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters. While these devices keep friends and colleagues just a few thumb-taps...
Improving security with face recognition technology
A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of...
Implications Of Past Forecasting Errors Often Underestimated
When managers issue a forecast of their firm's earnings, they do not always take into account prior forecasting errors, according to new research.
EU objects to Sun-Oracle deal
European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Oracle's $7.4 billion US takeover of Sun Microsystems, citing concerns about competition in the database market.
Back pain permanently sidelines soldiers at war
Military personnel evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan because of back pain are unlikely to return to the line of duty regardless of the treatment they receive, according to research...
Electronic Arts job cuts hit Burnaby
Video game maker Electronic Arts is cutting 1,500 jobs or about 17 per cent of its workforce, including a "significant" reduction in staff at its operations in Burnaby, B.C.
This smart wheelchair has laser vision
(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each...
NSLS-II Project Beamline Conceptual Designs
(PhysOrg.com) -- The NSLS-II Experimental Facilities Division achieved an important milestone in September when the conceptual design reports for the initial six project beamlines were completed and submitted to NSLS-II...
Australian students 'pro-rape' Facebook scandal
Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a "pro-rape" group on social networking site Facebook.
Turner leads No. 16 Ohio State in 100-60 win
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Evan Turner recorded only the second triple-double ever for Ohio State with 14 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists in the 16th-ranked...
iPhone worm Rickrolls Australia
(PhysOrg.com) -- iPhone users in Australia have been hit during the last few days with a worm called "ikee". The worm replaces the default wallpaper with a difficult to remove...
Opinion: The unfinished business of innovation
Terry Cutler argues that although innovation and technology are the root of current problems, they are also part of the solution, provided that a dialogue between disciplines is kept alive...
Virtual Goods Offer An Alternative To Material Consumption As Social Lives Move To Online Networks
Millions of people are spending real money on virtual clothes in online hangouts, digital items in multiplayer games and presents for their friends in social networking sites. This digitalisation of...
Economists Forecast For 2010 Looks Better, Relative To This Year
Economists presenting their annual forecast are confident that 2010 is going to be better than this year. Unfortunately, 2009 was "really, really awful." Some have declared that the national recession...
Blackberry buddies up to game developers
Research In Motion (RIM) on Monday announced it is making Blackberry devices friendlier to game applications, as the business-oriented smartphones try to show a more playful side.
The upside of feeling down
A chill wind chases you into the door of your local newsagent. Rain is drumming down outside. As you pay for your newspaper, you briefly notice a number of strange...
Researchers to develop novel drug detection technology using software that acts like a robotic scientist
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every time a person snorts cocaine, it doesn`t just go to his or her head: It also provokes a response in the immune system, creating special biomolecules that...
Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large...
Google ordered to pay 500,000 dlrs to F1 racer Barrichello
Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay 500,000 dollars in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut.
Electronic Arts posts 2Q loss, plans layoffs
(AP) -- Electronic Arts said Monday its loss widened in the latest quarter in what's been a difficult year for the company and the broader video game industry.
'Cloud' computing market 14 bln dollars by 2014: Gartner
Industry tracker Gartner forecast on Monday that revenue from Internet-based "cloud computing" will top 14 billion dollars annually by the end of 2013.
AMP's 15th Annual Meeting and Exhibits
AMP invites the media to follow its upcoming 2009 Annual Meeting and Exhibits and learn about the latest advances in clinical molecular diagnostics. The four-day event will feature more than...
Speeding new medicines and technologies to the developing world
A consortium of Harvard and five other leading research universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) have endorsed a far-reaching “Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable...