Technology
- Science Experts Make Movies Better
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By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science – What do the movies: "Frozen," "Thor," and "Iron Man" all have in common? They’re all examples of when science and science fiction collide. From the "final frontier" to a frozen fant ...
Article - Inside Science - Feb 26 2016 - 7:30am
- Hooray For Ex Machina? Hollywood Robot Depictions May Boost A.I. Acceptance
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In a survey, older adults who recalled more robots portrayed in films had lower anxiety toward robots than seniors who remembered fewer robot portrayals, said S. Shyam Sundar, Distinguished Professor of Communications and co-director of the Media Effects ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2016 - 6:22am
- In Human Development Research, Big Data Could Mean Better Results
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While there is no Hubble telescope gathering data about the universe of human development, projects to make large amounts of information-- big data-- more accessible to developmental researchers could bring behavioral science's biggest questions into ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2016 - 8:25am
- World's Smallest Diode Created, Using A Single Molecule Of DNA
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Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that nanoscale electronic components can be made from single DNA molecules. For two decades, the search has been on to replace the silicon chip in order to keep the hope of Moore's Law alive. To find ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2016 - 6:00am
- Valley Less Uncanny: We're Already Wired To Like Robot Sex
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When "The Polar Express" film came out, it was creepy to a lot of people. It was a cartoon with faces modeled after the real actors, but still a digital creation. The same response happens when people are around a robot that veers closer to bein ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2016 - 5:44am
- Puro Sound Labs Headphones- A Review
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Are millennials going deaf because of high music volumes? That certainly seems to be the concern, because of ubiquitous ear buds and.mp3 players. A company named Puro Sound Labs says they have a solution; bluetooth headphones that block out ambient sound, ...
Blog Post - Lila Abassi - Apr 11 2016 - 5:16pm
- Humans: The New Supercomputer
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A computer can probably beat you at chess and no one goes anywhere without a GPS. Transhumanist prophet Ray Kurzweil says we will ascend into being computers in a few years (though he also claims solar power will out-produce fossil fuels in a decade, so u ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2016 - 12:00pm
- Monovision: How Victorian Technology Can Improve Virtual Reality
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HANOVER, N.H.- Virtual and augmented reality have the potential to profoundly impact our society, but the technologies have a few bugs to work out to better simulate realistic visual experience. Now, researchers at Dartmouth College and Stanford Universit ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2016 - 12:17pm
- World's Tiniest Thermometer Made Of DNA
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Researchers have created a programmable DNA thermometer that 20,000 times smaller than a human hair, using a discovery made 60 years ago- that DNA molecules that encode our genetic information can unfold when heated. "In recent years, biochemists als ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2016 - 12:08am
- Want To Build Better Computer Games?
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If I said I was a licensed architect helping to fight dementia, you’d probably assume I was designing a care home or some similar building. Actually, I’ve been working alongside neuroscientists, psychologists, doctors and programmers to produce a computer ...
Article - The Conversation - May 8 2016 - 7:30am