ScienceDaily (2009-07-28) -- It is widely known that the brain perceives information before it reaches a person's awareness. But until now, there was little way to determine what specific mental tasks were taking place prior to the point of conscious awareness. That has now changed.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-29) -- A new study reports that pen and paper workarounds employed by health-care providers who use an electronic medical record system may help make electronic medical records even more useful to health-care providers and the patients they serve.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-23) -- Though digital technologies and high-speed communications have significantly expanded the capabilities of scientists -- allowing them to analyze and share vast amounts of data -- these technologies are also raising difficult questions for researchers, institutions and journals.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-17) -- The hearts of pregnant women and their unborn children sometimes beat in synchrony. This interaction is significantly influenced by the mother's breathing, researchers report. The mathematical approach to identify the synchronisation epochs could be applied to detect complications early in pregnancy. It could equally be used for the analysis of complex patterns in the climate system.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-17) -- Human-computer interaction is undergoing a revolution, entering a multimodal era that goes beyond, way beyond, the WIMP (Windows-Icons-Menus-Pointers) paradigm. Now researchers have developed a platform to speed up that revolution.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-14) -- By observing the global flow of news online, computer scientists have managed to track and analyze the "news cycle" -- the way stories rise and fall in popularity.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-14) -- Children who play an online game promoting healthy foods and beverages appear more likely to choose nutritious snacks than those who play a game promoting unhealthy products, according to a new report.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-10) -- Researchers have developed a computer game therapy that is now ready for treating adults.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-11) -- A hyper-realistic Einstein robot learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The researchers used machine learning to "empower" their robot to learn to make realistic facial expressions. "As far as we know, no other research group has used machine learning to teach a robot to make realistic facial expressions," said a computer science Ph.D. student involved in the research.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-05) -- A mother's weight and the amount she gains during pregnancy both impact her daughter's risk of obesity decades later, according to a new study.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-05) -- For a long time, batteries were bulky and heavy. Now, a new cutting-edge battery is revolutionizing the field. It is thinner than a millimeter, lighter than a gram, and can be produced cost-effectively through a printing process.
ScienceDaily (2009-07-01) -- An observer feels more empathy for someone in pain when that person is in the same social group, according to new research. The study shows that perceiving others in pain activates a part of the brain associated with empathy and emotion more if the observer and the observed are the same race. The findings may show that unconscious prejudices against outside groups exist at a basic level.
