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Nursing Home Tracks Residents’ Every Move

Using security cameras and algorithms, researchers at Carnegie Mellon created a nursing home monitoring system that “located individuals within one meter of their actual position 88 percent of the time.” That’...
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First Known Four-Quark Particle Pops Up In Japanese Collider

Physicists have observed what they’re confident is the first known particle with four quarks. This isn’t the first time the Belle detector, housed with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Japan, has...
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Researchers Can Now "Hear" The Exact Shape Of A Room

Researchers from American and French universities have discovered how to exactly map a room’s shape solely by using a sense you wouldn’t normally choose for this kind of task. Without sight or touch, this new techni...
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What Happens In Your Brain When You Try To Do Impressions

Scientists have identified what happens in our brain when we mimic a foreign accent or impersonate another person, according to a recent study from the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. The researchers, led by psychologist Car...
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Where To Hide When The Ecopocalypse Hits [Infographic]

06/18/13 at 4:38 pm Yeah, like 23 to 45 centuries if the current trend continues, so plan ahead for your vacation in 4313 AD. FYI, the measured rate of sea level rise from 1993 to 2009 is about 3.3 millimeters per year. That...
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Want To Study A Dragonfly? Put A Teeny Backpack On It

How do you figure out the way a dragonfly’s mind works? That’s the challenge for Anthony Leonardo, a neuroscientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farms Research Campus who studies the role n...
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Meet NASA’s Astronaut Class Of 2013

Online Content Director: Suzanne LaBarre | EmailSenior Editor: Paul Adams | EmailAssociate Editor: Dan Nosowitz | EmailAssistant Editor: Colin Lecher | EmailAssistant Editor: Rose Pastore | Email Contributing Writers:<!̵...
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6 Futuristic Musical Instruments Built In 72 Hours

Click here to enter the gallery. Yesterday six teams of makers built futuristic musical instruments, conceived of and created in just 72 hours for Red Bull’s Creation competition. The DIY competition asked teams to create...
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Google Reveals Massive Iranian Phishing Scheme

Government email spying in the United States may have all the headlines, but America hardly has a monopoly on privacy violations. Google revealed a massive phishing scheme against users of Google products in Iran last Wednesday...
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