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Researchers use mobile phones to measure happiness 23 Aug 2013 | 09:31 am
Researchers at Princeton University are developing ways to use mobile phones to explore how one's environment influences one's sense of well-being. Locations of study subjects on world map.... [[ Th...
Report:A Semi-Floating Gate Transistor for Low-Voltage Ultrafast Memory and Sensing Operation 10 Aug 2013 | 09:49 am
Researchers at Fudan University in China have discovered a way to speed up traditional computer transistors by embedding tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) in them. In their paper published......
Bad Night's Sleep? The Moon Could Be to Blame 26 Jul 2013 | 06:59 pm
8G43FPT25P63 Many people complain about poor sleep around the full moon, and now a report appearing in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, on July 25 offers some of the first convincing... [[...
Computer as Smart as a 4-Year-Old? Researchers IQ Test New Artificial Intelligence System 16 Jul 2013 | 07:17 pm
Artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent it really... [[ T...
For better batteries, just add water 4 Jul 2013 | 11:59 pm
A new type of lithium-ion battery that uses aqueous iodide ions in an aqueous cathode configuration provides twice the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries. A new type of ... [[ This...
Microsoft creates mood sensing software for smartphones 3 Jul 2013 | 08:17 pm
Microsoft Research Asia has been working on creating software called MoodScope that notes how a user uses his or her phone, and then uses that information to guess that user's mood. Initial... [[ Thi...
Imagination Can Change What We Hear and See 30 Jun 2013 | 12:54 pm
A study from Karolinska Institut in Sweden shows, that our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing "in our head" can change... ...
A Telescope for Your Eye: New Contact Lens Design May Improve Sight of Patients With Macular Degeneration 29 Jun 2013 | 08:34 pm
Contact lenses correct many people's eyesight but do nothing to improve the blurry vision of those suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among older... ...
Breaking habits before they start 28 Jun 2013 | 07:27 am
Our daily routines can become so ingrained that we perform them automatically, such as taking the same route to work every day. Some behaviors, such as smoking or biting your fingernails, become so......
Video Game Tech Used to Steer Cockroaches On Autopilot 26 Jun 2013 | 07:31 pm
North Carolina State University researchers are using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering the cockroach through a controlled environment. The.....
