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Most flexible polymers are inherently flimsy. When you look at their micro-structures it's easy to see why: They look like piles of entangled spaghetti strands. 
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Italian archaeologists say they have discovered a cemetery that reveals complex funeral rites dating back more than 3,000 years in Pakistan's Swat valley, recently controlled by the Taliban.
Read more, very interesting...: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-ancient-tombs-pakistan-swat.html
Allie Lau's curator insight,
March 7, 2014 3:56 AM
Interesting to hear of all the tombs found in new available lands
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Evolution. L'hypothèse d'un déclin des facultés intellectuelles, avancée par un chercheur américain, fait débat.
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Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into compute...
Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nu-nlQqFCKg#!
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Physicists say they may have evidence that the universe is a computer simulation. How?
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New research from the computer company Dell Inc. finds vast differences in attitudes to technology in education between China and the United States. While six in ten respondents in the United States do not approve of using social media in the classroom, a majority of Chinese respondents have positive feelings about the technology, the survey concluded.
Dell's education wing, Dell Edu, questioned almost 1,600 students, teachers, and parents in China, Germany, and the United States about their technology habits, and put the major findings in a nicely organized infographic (see below.) A report released with the survey also illustrated a few key differences on how technology is utilized for educational purposes:
Read more: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2012/09/dell_survey.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-FB
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The new Google Now feature unveiled this week at the Google I/O developers conference is designed to automatically present the information you need - even before you ask for it.
Google Now aggregates the information Google already collects about you on a daily basis: accessing your email, your calendar, your contacts, your text messages, your location, your shopping habits, your payment history, as well as your choices in music, movies and books. It can even scan your photos and automatically identify them based on their subject, not just the file name (in the Google I/O demo, Google Now correctly found a picture of the Great Pyramid).
About the only aspect of your online life that Google hasn’t apparently assimilated yet is your opinions expressed on Google+. But that’s undoubtedly coming.
“Google Now” Knows More About You Than Your Family Does -
===> Are You OK With That? <===
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This doesn't prove anything, my family isn't even aware of the existence of Google+ (I'm not even sure they care all that much ^_^)
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In the online struggle for network security, Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are adding an ally to the security force: the computer network itself...
In the online struggle for network security, Kansas State University cybersecurity experts are adding an ally to the security force: the computer network itself...
As the study progresses, the computer scientists will develop a set of analytical models to determine the effectiveness of a moving-target defense system. They also will create a proof-of-concept system as a way to experiment with the idea in a concrete setting. "It's important to investigate any scientific evidence that shows that this approach does work so it can be fully researched and developed," DeLoach said. He started collaborating with Ou to apply intelligent adaptive techniques to cybersecurity several years ago after a conversation at a university open house.
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A miniature atom-based magnetic sensor developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has passed an important research milestone by succ...
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This incredible visualization of the Earth and its oceans was created by the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
===> A MUST SEE!!! <===
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Scientists from the University of Virginia and University of North Carolina have discovered a previously unidentified type of circular DNA molecule occurring outside the chromosomes in mouse and human cells.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The technological world of the 21st century owes a tremendous amount to advances in electrical engineering, specifically, the ability to finely control the flow of electrical charges using increasingly small and complicated circuits.
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As the UK Safer Internet Centre holds its annual awareness day, campaigners call for online safety education to reach younger children.
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February 15, 2013 12:15 PM
Safer Internet Day: Children need educating from age of 5, say campaigners
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Is the human species doomed to intellectual decline? Will our intelligence ebb away in centuries to come leaving our descendants incapable of using the technology their ancestors invented? In short: will Homo be left without his sapiens?
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(Phys.org)—In order to build the next generation of nuclear reactors, materials scientists are trying to unlock the secrets of certain materials that are radiation-damage tolerant.
Read more, very interesting...: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-nano-insights-nuclear-reactors-self-healing.html
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Archaeologists in north-west Bulgaria unearth what they believe to be the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe.
Archaeologists believe that the town was home to some 350 people and dates back to between 4700 and 4200 BC. That is about 1,500 years before the start of ancient Greek civilisation.
'Extremely interesting', read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20156681
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Online learning is the fastest growing form of education today. We hear a lot about online college courses, MOOCs, and traditional universities offering courses online for a variety of subjects and types of students.
Read more: http://edudemic.com/2012/10/online-in-person-school-ultimate-guide-choosing/
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(Phys.org) -- A surveillance device that uses WiFi radio waves has been devised to see through walls to detect, in military and surveillance parlance, moving personnel targets.
Read more: http://phys.org/news/2012-08-see-through-wall-surveillance-wifi-shown-ucl.html
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ESO is to build the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world. At its meeting in Garching today, the ESO Council approved the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) Programme, pending confirmation of four so-called ad referendum [1] votes.
Read more: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1225/
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"Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today."
Like shown in the picture, the top bottle being the black hole and the bottom our universe, filling from the above through a wormhole.
Fascinating theory.
Read more http://phys.org/news/2012-05-black-hole-universe-physicist-solution.html
Via Guillaume Decugis
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La médiatisation a néanmoins favorisé la prise de conscience des dangers liés à ces nouvelles technologies et l'émergence de solutions.
Il est désormais possible de faire surveiller son réseau informatique comme on fait surveiller ses locaux et d'intervenir en temps réel pour se protéger des malveillances détectées. Il est également devenu possible de s'assurer contre les conséquences financières de ces intrusions et malveillances.
Plusieurs assureurs proposent depuis peu des contrats spécifiques pour garantir les cyber-risques.
Cependant tant la nature des garanties, que leur montant et les primes sont très dépendants du niveau de prévention mis en place par l'entreprise.
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A still photograph is a limited format for capturing moments that span an interval of time. Video is the traditional method for recording durations of time, ...
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Yet another brain myth bites the dust, joining we only use 10 percent of our brain, and other pseudoscience nonsense that tries to cram people in nice neat boxes.
The left hemisphere of your brain, thought to be the logic and math portion, actually plays a critical role in creative thinking, University of Southern California (USC) researchers have found, at least for visual creative tasks (and musical, as previously found)...
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In creating an algorithm that searches for and implements more secure computer configurations, computer science associate professor Errin Fulp and graduate student Michael Crouse from the Wake Forest University in North Carolina have been inspired by genetics.
"Just as one might try to prevent a home robbery, our goal is to create a 'moving target defense' that detects cyber threats when they first case the house. If we can automatically change the landscape by adding the technological equivalent of security cameras or additional lighting, the resulting uncertainty will lower the risk of attack," he pointed out.
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