At Perceptive Pixel 's offices on Manhattan's West Side, Jefferson Han stands in front of a megasize multi-touch screen and runs his fingertips across the display. Each finger leaves a trail of colored pixels in its wake, causing the display to look, briefly, like it has been scratched by a set of digital claws. [More]
Archive for March 5th, 2010
Undergraduate women who join a sorority are more likely to judge their own bodies from an outsider's perspective and display higher levels of bulimic behaviors than those who do not take part in the sorority's recruitment process. Over time, women who join the group also show higher levels of body shame, according to findings of a new study.
Scientists have expanded the potential uses of glass by developing an experimental technique that reveals more clearly how atoms in glass vibrate.
Components of the blood or hematopoietic system derive from stem cell subtypes rather than one single stem cell that gives rise to all the different kinds of blood cells equally, say scientists in a new report.
Heat is often the enemy of computing and data storage, but a new experiment shows it could help reduce the amount of power needed to store data in magnetic memory.
Researchers have developed an experimental vaccine for chikungunya virus and successfully tested it in monkeys.
Researchers have found a better way to trap light in photovoltaic cells through the use of vertical arrays of silicon nanowires. This could substantially cut the costs of solar electric power by reducing the quantity and quality of silicon needed for efficient solar panels.
People who are stressed by daily problems or trouble at work seem to be more likely to grind their teeth at night. Researchers studied the causes of "sleep bruxism," gnashing teeth during the night, finding that it was especially common in those who try to cope with stress by escaping from difficult situations.
As health departments across the United States seek a better way to determine which children should be tested for lead poisoning, a new method has proven to be more accurate and cost-effective than current strategies.
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and a team of collaborators have observed for the first time that the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) increases by many folds following infection with the Epstein-Barr virus.
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