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(http://www.popsci.com)
- scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
over 3 years ago
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We have a credo around here: The future will be better. It may sound optimistic in light of our wheezing environment and limping economy, but then you haven’t met the Brilliant 10, PopSci’s annual selection of the nation’s most promising young res...
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science, scienctists, top, ten, popular, predictions, trends, leaders, pioneers, profress, accelerated, change, scientific, development
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(http://www.memebox.com)
- posted by: memebox
over 3 years ago
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A comprehensive report asserts that web-mediated learning has been found to be more effective than face-to-face learning.
New York Times: Over the 12-year span, the report found 99 studies in which there were quantitative comparisons of online an...
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(http://www.examiner.com)
- scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
over 3 years ago
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Tandem-wheeled electric "dicycle" could become the next big urban transport.
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uno, ben, gulak, dicycle, gyros, electric, unicycle, alternative, transportation, motorcycles, urban
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(http://news.bbc.co.uk)
- scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
over 4 years ago
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Researchers are giving a robot its own Facebook profile page to help foster meaningful relationships with people.
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(http://www.kk.org)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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"Deep mysteries of human nature will be exposed by self-tracking, aspects of our behavior so disconcerting and bizarre that they will lead us to question whether we understand ourselves at all. I know this is true because such disconcerting r...
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(http://www.readwriteweb.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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The generation gap at work is really wide with vast discrepancies when it comes to what the appropriate use of technology is - a problem that leads to increasing tensions in the workplace.
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(http://www.nytimes.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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Researchers are only now starting to pay attention to the importance of friendship and social networks in overall health. A 10-year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during t...
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(http://www.world-science.net)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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A private company’s “genetic profiles” of individual cancer patients in a study helped create personalized treatments that helped them survive longer, according to researchers.
The study, released jointly by healthcare o...
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(http://www.macrumors.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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Apple has been conducting ongoing research into how to further improve their mobile device interfaces as evidenced by a couple of patent applications published over the past couple of weeks. Two different patent applications reveal a couple of dif...
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(http://news.bbc.co.uk)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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Severe droughts lasting centuries have happened often in West Africa's recent history, and another one is almost inevitable, researchers say.
Analysis of sediments in a Ghanaian lake shows the last of these "megadroughts" ended 250 ye...
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(http://www.nytimes.com)
- scanned by: Alvis Brigis
over 4 years ago
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The era of personal genomic medicine may have to wait. The genetic analysis of common disease is turning out to be a lot more complex than expected.
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