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How to Make a Good Impression When Saying “Hello”
You can hear the perfect hello.
And now you can see it too.
Researchers from the CNRS, the ENS, and Aix-Marseille University have established...
US may screen social media of Immigrant & Non-Immigrant Visa Applicants
Trump administration has announced that it will be starting to collect social media history of those who have applied for a visa to enter...
MailChimp Bans ICO & Blockchain Marketing- Fundraisers Devastated
Well-known email distribution platform MailChimp announced a change in its policy and has been sending out emails to users regarding its new marketing policy.
Reportedly,...
Under Armour says hackers stole 150 million MyFitnessPal user accounts
Under Armour Inc., has announced that it has been hit by a large-scale cyber attack in which hackers stole personal data from 150 million MyFitnessPal...
Boeing production plant hit by malware, apparently WannaCry ransomware
The world’s largest aerospace company Boeing has been hit by a malware attack and reportedly it led to the infection of infamous WannaCry ransomware.
According to Seattle...
Researchers find alternate path for Listeria to sicken people
Purdue University scientists have found another pathway that Listeria uses to enter the bloodstream, suggesting that forms of the foodborne bacteria considered benign may...
Pediatric cancer drug shows 93 percent response rate
A first-of-its-kind drug targeting a fused gene found in many types of cancer was effective in 93 percent of pediatric patients tested, researchers at...
U.K. man found to have gonorrhea resistant to conventional treatments
Researchers at Public Health England have announced, as reported by the BBC, that a U.K. man has contracted a case of gonorrhea that is...
What is the Hafnium ?
Hafnium is a lustrous, silvery-gray transition metal.
Discovered in 1923, it was the next-to-last element with stable nuclei to be added to the periodic table...
US Air Force: two high-capacity communications satellites made by Boeing that the Pentagon...
In a surprise last-minute add-on, House appropriators included $600 million in the Air Force budget for two high-capacity communications satellites made by Boeing that the...
Researchers reveal lullabies help sooth both baby and mom and increase positive displays...
A universal sign of motherhood is the lullaby.
The world over, mothers sing to their babies, whether Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, their favorite song...
A new study reveals students who have class times that are out of sync...
It may be time to tailor students’ class schedules to their natural biological rhythms, according to a new study from UC Berkeley and Northeastern...
Increasing Understanding of the Coarse-to-Fine Human Visual Perception
A long-standing paradox in vision shows that the complexity of neural encoding increases along the visual hierarchy even as visual resolution dramatically decreases.
Put...
Temperature heals lithium dendrites
Rechargeable lithium-ion, the dominant battery technology for portable electronics, is increasingly becoming the battery of choice for electric-vehicle and electric-grid energy-storage applications.
In a lithium-ion...
Robot takes cues from spider that can walk and roll
Once again, we get visual proof that it pays to check out Nature's outstanding engineering tricks in order to work up interesting machines that...
