Archive for September, 2008

Nearby Supernova Caught By Web

One of the nearest supernovas in the last 25 years has been identified over a decade after it exploded. This result was made possible by combining data from the vast online archives from many of the world's premier telescopes.

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Squeezing Juice from the Sun

The biggest energy bang for the buck comes from sunlight, says Binghamton University researcher Seshu Desu. And together with his research team, he’s hoping to tap into that immense supply of renewable energy and make it easily accessible as a flexible, large-area and low-cost, power source.

Working For A Living

After all the people have left, the last computer had been taken in for repair, the doors locked and the cleanup had begun so does the cutting up by most of the employees. A little tension reliever after closing the store, a time to be one's self and maybe not so professional. This is one ...

Time Teaches Us How to Recognize Visual Objects

In work that could aid efforts to develop more brain-like computer vision systems, MIT neuroscientists have tricked the visual brain into confusing one object with another, thereby demonstrating that time teaches us how to recognize objects.

Example of stimuli used by Li & ...