Why Do We Share Stories, News, and Information With Others?

Why Do We Share Stories, News, and Information With Others?

  11:17:00 PM    Science Lover

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People often share stories, news, and information with the people around them. We forward online articles to our friends, share stories with our co-workers at the water cooler, and pass along rumors to our neighbors. Such social transmission has been going on for thousands...

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Squeezed light from single atoms

Squeezed light from single atoms

  9:11:00 PM    Science Lover

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Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics scientists generate amplitude-squeezed light fields using single atoms trapped inside optical cavities. A single rubidium atom in a cavity squeezes the quantum fluctuations of a weak laser beam, decreasing the fluctuations of the...

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IBM scientists demonstrate computer memory breakthrough

IBM scientists demonstrate computer memory breakthrough

  8:47:00 PM    Science Lover

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For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated that a relatively new memory technology, known as phase-change memory (PCM), can reliably store multiple data bits per cell over extended periods of time. This significant improvement advances the development...

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Money and Mimicry: When Being Mimicked Makes People Threatened

Money and Mimicry: When Being Mimicked Makes People Threatened

  12:05:00 PM    My Blog

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We rely on money in our day-to-day life and it is constantly in our minds. After all, money makes the world go round, doesn’t it? Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science,...

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Researchers can predict future actions from human brain activity

Researchers can predict future actions from human brain activity

  2:42:00 AM    Science Lover

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Bringing the real world into the brain scanner, researchers at The University of Western Ontario from The Centre for Brain and Mind can now determine the action a person was planning, mere moments before that action is actually executed. A volunteer completes tasks while...

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Can Google Get Web Users Talking?

Can Google Get Web Users Talking?

  1:13:00 AM    Science Lover

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Voice-driven search is a futuristic idea, and may take some getting used to. Credit: Google The notion of asking a computer for information out loud is familiar to most of us only from science fiction. Google is trying to change that by adding speech recognition...

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Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits

Researchers create rollerball-pen ink to draw circuits

  9:30:00 PM    Science Lover

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Two professors from the University of Illinois; one specializing in materials science, the other in electrical engineering, have combined their talents to take the idea of printing circuits onto non-standard materials one step further by developing a conductive ink that...

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Tiny Ring Laser Accurately Detects and Counts Nanoparticles

Tiny Ring Laser Accurately Detects and Counts Nanoparticles

  8:05:00 PM    Science Lover

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A tiny doughnut-shaped laser is the latest marvel of silicon microminiaturization, but instead of manipulating bits it detects very small particles. Small particles play a big -- and largely unnoticed -- role in our everyday lives. Virus particles make us sick, salt particles...

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Mystery Ingredient in Coffee Boosts Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease, Study Finds

Mystery Ingredient in Coffee Boosts Protection Against Alzheimer's Disease, Study Finds

  9:59:00 AM    Science Lover

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A yet unidentified component of coffee interacts with the beverage's caffeine, which could be a surprising reason why daily coffee intake protects against Alzheimer's disease. A new Alzheimer's mouse study by researchers at the University of South Florida found that this...

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Inkjet Printing Could Change the Face of Solar Energy Industry

Inkjet Printing Could Change the Face of Solar Energy Industry

  9:33:00 AM    Science Lover

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Inkjet printers, a low-cost technology that in recent decades has revolutionized home and small office printing, may soon offer similar benefits for the future of solar energy. Solar cell. This scanning electron microscope,  cross-sectional image shows the various...

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Model finds optimal fiber optic network connections 10,000 times more quickly

Model finds optimal fiber optic network connections 10,000 times more quickly

  11:29:00 PM    Science Lover

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Designing fiber optic networks involves finding the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places – a costly and time-consuming process. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a model that can find optimal connections...

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It's Not an Apple a Day After All -- It's Strawberries: Flavonoids Could Represent Two-Fisted Assault On Diabetes and Nervous System Disorders

It's Not an Apple a Day After All -- It's Strawberries: Flavonoids Could Represent Two-Fisted Assault On Diabetes and Nervous System Disorders

  8:52:00 PM    Science Lover

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A recent study from scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies suggests that a strawberry a day (or more accurately, 37 of them) could keep not just one doctor away, but an entire fleet of them, including the neurologist, the endocrinologist, and maybe even...

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