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- Sniffing and gasping can prevent fainting
- Straw-colored fruit bats: Ecosystem service providers and record-breaking flyers
- Expert passport officers better at detecting fraud using face recognition technology
- Have you got the X Factor? Psychologists find that you may be musical and not even know it
- Light emitting diodes from food and beverage waste created
- Long-sought-after 'glueball': Exotic particle may have been discovered
- How hallucinations emerge from trying to make sense of an ambiguous world
| Sniffing and gasping can prevent fainting Posted: 17 Oct 2015 12:22 PM PDT Sniffing and gasping can prevent fainting, reveals new research. |
| Straw-colored fruit bats: Ecosystem service providers and record-breaking flyers Posted: 14 Oct 2015 11:47 AM PDT When searching for food, African straw-colored fruit bats cover greater distances than any other bat species studied to date. |
| Expert passport officers better at detecting fraud using face recognition technology Posted: 14 Oct 2015 11:47 AM PDT Face-matching experts at the Australian Passport Office are 20 percent more accurate than average people at detecting fraud using automatic face recognition software, new research shows. The study is the first to test how well people perform on this difficult but common operational task carried out by passport officers. Recruiting staff who are naturally good at face recognition can improve accuracy. |
| Have you got the X Factor? Psychologists find that you may be musical and not even know it Posted: 13 Oct 2015 10:58 AM PDT The old adage says practice makes perfect, but new research shows that personality also plays a key role in musical ability, even for those who do not play an instrument. In a new study, a team of psychologists identified that the personality trait 'Openness' predicts musical ability and sophistication. |
| Light emitting diodes from food and beverage waste created Posted: 13 Oct 2015 10:55 AM PDT Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used for a variety of applications and have been a popular, more efficient alternative to fluorescent and incandescent bulbs for the past few decades. Two University of Utah researchers have now found a way to create LEDs from food and beverage waste. In addition to utilizing food and beverage waste that would otherwise decompose and be of no use, this development can also reduce potentially harmful waste from LEDs generally made from toxic elements. |
| Long-sought-after 'glueball': Exotic particle may have been discovered Posted: 13 Oct 2015 07:32 AM PDT Scientists have calculated that the meson f0(1710) could be a very special particle: the long-sought-after 'glueball', made up entirely of gluons -- the "sticky" particles that keep nuclear particles together. |
| How hallucinations emerge from trying to make sense of an ambiguous world Posted: 12 Oct 2015 02:45 PM PDT Scientists explore the idea that hallucinations arise due to an enhancement of our normal tendency to interpret the world around us by making use of prior knowledge and predictions. |
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