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- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 1 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2010
Bake 'n Flake
An international team of researchers deduced that early modern humans living on the coast of the southern tip of Africa used fire to increase the quality and the effectiveness of their stone tools.
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Thu 03 Sep 2009
Making Faces
A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning.
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Fri 14 Aug 2009
Fluid Motion
Reseachers at the University of Michigan are using sound waves to push sample fluids through tiny detectors that are only millimeters or centimeters in size.
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Fri 14 Aug 2009
Diamond Delivery
Using nanodiamonds, researchers at Northwestern University have deomonstrated a method for delivering and releasing curative medicines to a specific location in the body.
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Thu 06 Aug 2009
Vanishing Act
A team of computer scientists at the University of Washington developed a prototype system called Vanish that can place a time limit on information uploaded to the internet that causes all the inform…
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Thu 06 Aug 2009
Game On
Chemists at Stanford University have created new algorithms that use the computer technology behind today's video game systems to rapidly calculate and depict the structure of molecules.
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Tue 04 Aug 2009
Vicarious Thrill
A new study out of Harvard and the University of Virginia finds that you are more likely to know what will make you happy if you ask a total stranger. Another person's experiences are often more inf…
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Thu 04 Jun 2009
Wet and Wild
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are studying the physical property of repelling water known as super-hydrophobia. Through computer aided tests, researches pinpointed what allows t…
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Thu 04 Jun 2009
Changing Change
The threat of climate change can still be greatly diminished if nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent during this century. Global temperatures would still rise, but events like se…
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Tue 28 Apr 2009
Blow Flies
A Caltech biologist and his research team have indentified how the antennea of fruit flies process the feeling of wind and then how the flies respond by standing completely still.
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Tue 14 Apr 2009
Flextronics
Researchers at Cornell University and the University of Melbourne, Australia, are fabricating organic semiconducting materials from a gentle solvent called Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.
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Wed 08 Apr 2009
High Life
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has determined that gases rising from deep within the Earth, fuel the world's highest known microbial ecosystems, which were detected near the rim of…
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Wed 25 Mar 2009
Global Worming
Two researchers at Brigham Young University are studying the impacts of global warming on Antartica's ecosystem by looking at the relationship between rising temperatures and a specialized worm that …
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Tue 10 Mar 2009
Quantum Leap
Scientists at the Universities of Maryland and Michigan along with those at the Joint Quantum Institute have, for the first time ever, sucessfully teleported information between two atoms at a distan…
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Thu 26 Feb 2009
Food Plight
New research conducted by the Univeristy of Washington and Stanford University shows that a rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously damage crop production within the tropics and subtropics by …
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Tue 03 Feb 2009
Plasticity
A research team at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has uncovered what makes plastics so malleable. Molecules that make up plastics can rearrange themselves up to 1,000 times faster while unde…
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Mon 02 Feb 2009
Swat Team
Researchers at the University of Central Florida are teaming up with the Virtual Reality Medical Center to immerse stroke survivors in a virtual game-world that is full of flying insects with the goa…
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Mon 02 Feb 2009
Bac-Tery Powered
Researchers at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities are studying a remarkable species of becteria that produces electric current when attached to a graphite electrode or other conductive surface.
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Mon 02 Feb 2009
Shrinky Dinghies
A research team at Penn State University has used chemicals to create nano-motors that drive nanoparticles from one location to another.
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Thu 22 Jan 2009
Gear Head
Researchers at Purdue University and The Catholic University of America have proposed a new mechanism for how the motor inside of a virus works in order to propel the virus from one location to anoth…
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Thu 15 Jan 2009
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