The additional offender groans. You’re not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence. A new Northwestern University study of human behavior has determined that those who wrote letters using pen and paper — long before electronic mail existed — did so in a [...]
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How Would Einstein Use E-mail?
June 7th, 2010 
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No Comments »Innovative research reawakens human memories through intelligent textiles
June 5th, 2010 admin As part of the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, two teams of researchers led by Professor Barbara Layne of Concordia University, Montreal, and Professor Janis Jefferies at Goldsmiths, University of London, U.K., have brought research in intelligent textiles to a new level. The research teams have developed a highly sophisticated concept of [...]
Posted in Scientific News Tags: human memories, human memory, intelligent textiles, memory No Comments »A device is developed to help blind manuever
June 5th, 2010 admin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev students have developed an innovative optical radar system that helps blind people maneuver around obstacles. The radar system incorporates a computer, two video cameras and a scanning light source to warn the blind of obstacles with audible alerts. The system detects obstacles — even those overhead — by scanning the [...]
Evidence of early human found earlier than previously thought
March 11th, 2010 admin Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers as early as 750,000 years ago – some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated by archaeologists. The discovery was made in the course of excavations at the prehistoric Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site, located along the Dead Sea [...]
Golden ratio discovered in a quantum world
January 17th, 2010 admin Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation with colleagues from Oxford and Bristol Universities, as well as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter. They have measured the signatures of a symmetry showing the same attributes as the [...]
