Professionals whose jobs require more speaking, developing strategies, conflict resolution and managerial tasks may experience better protection against memory and thinking decline in old age than their co-workers, according to …read more Source:: Science
Month: April 2015
U.S. Air Force plans to launch 1990s-built weather satellite
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday said it plans to launch an aging weather satellite at an expected cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Hands free talk with global reach and style
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San Francisco – Anytime, day or night, no matter which way you look, it seems you’ll see someone with a smartphone in their hand. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Rare whale fossil found in Panama clarifies evolution of sperm whale
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Almost since the time of Melville’s epic hunt, scientists have been fascinated by the remarkable attributes of the sperm whale and its kin, the smaller pigmy and dwarf whales. Capable …read more Source:: Science
How babies’ lives were saved by 3-D printing
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A new study reports outcomes for three boys who became among the first in the world to benefit from 3D printed devices that saved their lives. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists create ‘ghosts’ in the lab by tricking the brain
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Lausanne, SWITZERLAND – Neuroscientists have succeeded in creating ‘ghosts’ in the laboratory by tricking the brains of test subjects into feeling an unexpected ‘presence’ in the room. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Digital Insights Are the New Currency of Business
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By editor@techworld.com (Forrester Analysts) All the big data technology in the world won’t close the gaps between data and action. One global bank told us, “even with all the capabilities and tools in place, …read more Source:: Open Source
Open source threatens to eat the database market
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By Matt Asay Marten Mickos may no longer run MySQL, but his ghost still haunts the database market. Years ago, Mickos declared, “The relational database market is a $9 billion a year …read more Source:: OpenSource
Motion capture on a whole new level
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PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES – Hanbyul Joo is working on his swing. But he’s not at a baseball park, instead he’s in a massive geodesic dome in the basement of …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Robotically discovering Earth’s nearest neighbors: 54 light-years away
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Astronomers discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is only 54 light-years away. All three planets orbit their star at a distance closer than Mercury orbits the sun, …read more Source:: Science