Science Selections
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Science Selections From Popular Scientific Journals
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Dyscalculia: Number games - Jan, 2013 Nature
12/01/2013 Duración: 23min"Brian Butterworth's crusade to understand the number deficit dyscalculia - and to help those who have it." by Ewen Callaway.
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Google Gets in Your Face - Jan, 2013 IEEE Spectrum
06/01/2013 Duración: 12min"Google Glass offers a slightly augmented version of reality." by Elise Ackerman.
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A Confederacy of Senses - Jan, 2013 Scientific American
30/12/2012 Duración: 15min"Our senses collaborate more than previously realized. What we hear depends a lot on what we see and feel." by Lawrence D. Rosenblum
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The Coming Megafloods - Jan, 2013 Scientific American
23/12/2012 Duración: 25min"Huge atmospheric vapor flows have caused huge floods every 200 years." by Michael Dettinger and Lynn Ingram
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The Pioneer Anomaly - Dec, 2012 IEEE Spectrum
16/12/2012 Duración: 24min"30 years ago, Pioneer spacecraft started slowing unexpectedly. We finally know why." by Viktor Toth and Slava Turyshev
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The Unquantum Quantum - Dec, 2012 Scientific American
08/12/2012 Duración: 17min"Quantum theorists often speak of the world as being digital. But is it really?" by David Tong
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The Winters of our Discontent - Dec, 2012 Scientific American
02/12/2012 Duración: 22min"Loss of Arctic sea ice is stacking the deck in favor of harsh winter weather in the U.S. and Europe." by Charles H. Greene.
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Disappearing Daguerreotypes - Dec, 2012 Scientific American
18/11/2012 Duración: 14min"How an unlikely team saved priceless images from the earliest days of photography." by Daniel Grushkin.
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Robotic Road Train - Nov 2012 IEEE Spectrum
11/11/2012 Duración: 21min"Semiautonomous cars will play follow the leader, giving drivers a rest and saving fuel." by Erik Coelingh and Stefan Solyom
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The Strangest Bird - Nov, 2012 Scientific American
04/11/2012 Duración: 24min"Recent fossil discoveries reveal the surprising evolutionary history of penguins" by R. E. Fordyce and D. T. Ksepka.
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Grow Your Own Eye! - Nov, 2012 Scientific American
27/10/2012 Duración: 18min"Biologists have coaxed cells to form a retina, a step toward growing replacement organs outside the body." by Yoshiki Sasai.
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The Higgs at Last! - Oct, 2012 Scientific American
21/10/2012 Duración: 25min"After a 30 year search, scientists appear to have found the elusive particle. A new era in physics could be about to dawn."
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Mind and Machine - Oct, 2012 UCLA Magazine
14/10/2012 Duración: 20min"Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence. Smartphones that talk. Self-driving cars. Robots that think." by Dan Gordon.
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The Sleeping Slayer - Sept, 2012 Scientific American
06/10/2012 Duración: 26min"In the neurological netherworld between sleep and wakefulness, the mind's delirium can turn tragically real." by James Vlahos.
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2012 And Counting! - From "The Skeptic"
29/09/2012 Duración: 37min"A NASA Scientist Answers the Top 20 Questions About 2012." by David Morrison.
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Sociable Killers - Oct, 2006 Natural History
23/09/2012 Duración: 26min"Studies of the great white shark reveal complex social and hunting strategies." by R. Aidan Martin and Anne Martin.
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Microwave Weapons - Sep, 2012 Nature
15/09/2012 Duración: 20minDespite 50 years of research on high-power microwaves, the US military has yet to produce a usable weapon. By Sharon Weinberger.
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The Power of 100 Suns - Sep, 2012 IEEE Spectrum
08/09/2012 Duración: 25min"Tapping the Power of 100 Suns. Concentrated solar power will keep future armies on the Mar." by Richard Stevenson.
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Beyond the Quantum Horizon - Sept 2012 Scientific American
02/09/2012 Duración: 23min"Once thought to limit knowledge and technology, quantum theory is now expanding computing power." by David Deutsch and Artur Ekert.
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Mind in Motion - Sep, 2012 Scientific American
26/08/2012 Duración: 21min"The idea that paralyzed people might control their limbs by thinking is no longer fantasy." by Miguel A. L. Nicolelis.