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Environmentally friendly robots will feed the flowers they trample
Dr Jonathan Rossiter, a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol's Department of Engineering and Mathematics, has snagged a two-year research grant of over £200,000 to develop robots that decompose once their mission if complete. This means instead of our automaton friends rusting away, devoid of purpose, they could return gracefully (and more importantly non-toxically) back to mother earth. Not only would this be a boon to the environment, but scientists would no longer need to track and retrieve their mechanical progeny once it reached the end of its usable life, further sparing resources and allowing mass deployment. At least we know, when the day comes, the planet won't be harmed.
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Kate Upton Bikini Photos: You. Are. Welcome.
Terry Richardson needs free drinks for life.
Who knows how the renowned "fashion" photographer became the go-to guy for getting models and actresses to disrobe in front of him for "artsy" spreads, but the man does profoundly exquisite work. His latest effort: These Kate Upton pics.
What more needs to be said, really?
This photo shoot also produced a video of her doing the "Cat Daddy" dance in the bikini shown above, a 60-second clip that's as perfect as it is nonsensical.
Some people, for reasons unknown, continue to hate on Kate because of her "fuller" figure and provocative ad campaigns, but we really don't see the issue.
If anything, it's nice to see a non-anorexic "every girl" model, and just because the SI stunner uses her sex appeal for a living doesn't make her a "slut."
Rant over. Now enjoy Terry's photos of the cutie below:
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Nokia 808 PureView available this month in Russia and India
Are you eagerly awaiting to get your hands on that 41 megapixel Symbian Belle flagship? We bet you are, and perhaps today is your lucky day -- if you live in Russia or India, that is. Nokia's just officially announced that the 808 PureView will be available this month "in select markets." Strangely, the company didn't give a specific date or list any countries beyond the aforementioned two. The handset, which was revealed at Mobile Word Congress in February, is expected to retail for 450 Euros and "revolutionize the imaging experience" with its large sensor, Zeiss optics and pixel oversampling technology. Speaking of which -- Nokia's also just renewed its partnership with the German lens manufacturer. Coincidence? We think not. Check out the full PR after the break.
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Scientists unravel mystery of pigeon GPS ability (+video)
Scientists have detected special nerve cells in pigeons' brains that can detect the intensity and direction of magnetic fields.
The next time someone calls you bird-brained, you should assume that you are being complimented on your sense of direction.
Skip to next paragraph We've always known that pigeons have a good internal compass?and now we have the brain cells to prove it.Pigeons, in particular, are known for their innate homing ability, having been used as messengers since ancient times. We know that pigeons have some kind of internal magnetic compass,?but exactly what it is and how it works has remained a mystery.
Now scientists are?one step closer to decoding the birds' magnetic sense. Writing in the journal Science,?Le-Qing Wu and J. David Dickman at Baylor College of Medicine described what happened when they put seven pigeons in an artificial magnetic field and observed their brains.
Wu and Dickman put the pigeons in a completely dark room, clamped their heads in place, connected their brain stems to electrodes, and used a Tesla coil to cancel out the effects of the Earth's magnetic field and to induce a new one. Then they fiddled with the angle and the intensity of the magnetic field and watched which parts of the pigeons' brains lit up.
Ultimately, Wu and Dickman identified 53 neurons in the pigeons' brain stems that responded to magnetic stimuli.?
"The cells responded to the angle and intensity of the magnetic field. Some cells were more sensitive depending on what direction we aimed the magnetic field around the bird?s head," Dickman said in a Baylor press release.
Of course, being able to tell which way is north is not the same thing as knowing your position on the globe. (If you doubt this, have a friend blindfold you and drop you in a boat in the middle of the ocean with just a compass. You'll quickly realize that, Even though you can determine your bearing,?you still have no idea where you are. You'll also realize that you need better friends.)?
Pigeons seem to have both an internal compass and an internal map. Dickman and his colleagues believe that pigeons encode the information from these magnetically attuned nerve cells to spatial maps in the memory centers of their brains.
"Birds give us a unique opportunity to study how the brain develops these spatial maps and the receptors that feed into it because they have such a great ability to navigate," said?Dickman in the press release.?
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comScore's Q1 2012 data shows that Samsung and Android are still sitting pretty
comScore just took the wraps off its data for the first quarter of 2012, and it confirms what we’ve been seeing over the past few months: in the U.S., Samsung and Android are the manufacturer and mobile OS to beat. Samsung maintains its lead with 26% of the total mobile headset market share, up from 25.3% in Q4 2011. That 0.7 of a percentage point might have been taken directly from LG, who at 19.3% of the market share is down from 20% last year. Rounding out the top five are Apple, Motorola, and HTC at 14%, 12.8%, and 6% respectively, with only Apple seeing a gain from last quarter. This is the first time in a few quarters that HTC appears in the data, as Q1 marks its surpassing RIM in total market share. It should be noted that comScore measures all mobile handsets, including "dumb" phones.
On the OS side, not much has changed in terms of ranking. Android has gained 3.7 percentage points, up to 51% of total smartphone market share. iOS gained too, up to 30.7%, with RIM, Microsoft, and Symbian at 12.3%, 3.9%, and 1.4% respectively. This quarter marks yet another loss for the Blackberry manufacturer, down 3.7 points from Q4 2011.
As for usage, 74.3% of U.S. smartphone owners sent text messages on their devices, while 50% downloaded apps and 49.3% browsed the web. Social networking is used by 36.1% of total users, while games and music are used by 32.6% and 25.3% respectively. A full breakdown of all the data can be found at the source.
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Affiliate Marketing eBook ? The Key to Your Professional Education
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Female panda recovering after artificial insemination
The "black-and-white rock star" of the Smithsonian's National Zoo, female panda Mei Xiang, is recovering Monday after being artificially inseminated with up to 800 million sperm.
This was the Washington, D.C.-based zoo's second try at inseminating the 13-year-old panda, after a first attempt on Sunday when scientists determined the semen they had collected from the male Tian Tian wasn't high enough quality for artificial insemination.
The scientists decided to try this technological intervention in the first place after a natural attempt fell flat.
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"Veterinarians performed an artificial insemination Sunday night after they determined no competent natural breeding had occurred between Mei Xiang and male giant panda, Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN)," zoo officials wrote in a statement. [Video: Panda Mating Dance]
And the zookeepers and experts live-tweeted the personal panda event.
"Mei did great and there's a sense of celebration and accomplishment in the air here! pandaAI," tweeted the National Zoo's Twitter account, @NationalZoo, Monday evening after the insemination was completed.
The two pandas have successfully bred before ? Mei Xiang gave birth to cub Tai Shan in 2005 ? but they aren't so good at getting it on themselves (Tai Shan was conceived via artificial insemination).
Furthermore, female pandas are fertile only one to two days a year, so zookeepers had to seize the rare opportunity.
(National Zoo research scientist research scientist Jon Ballou told The Washington Post he thinks both pandas are too old to be successful ? while Mei Xiang is 13; Tian Tian is 14. "Get a couple of young pandas, (of) reproductive ages," he said.)
For Monday's artificial insemination, zookeepers used sperm from Tian Tian harvested back when Tai Shan was born.
Just carrying Mei Xiang into the surgery room was a feat. "The keepers and vets are carrying Mei on a tarp now with handles. It takes 8 people ? she weighs about 230 lbs.," the zoo tweeted.
"While under general anesthesia, Mei Xiang was inseminated with thawed semen collected from Tian Tian in 2005," zoo officials wrote.
They added, "Zoo staff will continue to monitor Mei Xiang's hormone levels in the coming months and conduct ultrasounds to see if she is pregnant." (But even figuring out if a female panda is pregnant can be tricky; it is often difficult to identify a panda fetus through an ultrasound. And female giant pandas, inlcuding Mei Xiang, regularly undergo pseudo-pregnancies, which mimic the real thing to a tee, sans the developing infant.)
Captive breeding programs like this one serve as a chief part of scientists' efforts to study and conserve the species; giant pandas, native to southeastern China, northern Myanmar, and northern Vietnam, are now endangered with only 1,600 left in the wild.
Plus, baby pandas are oh-so-cute, and present a big draw for any zoo. The National Zoo had to send Tai Shan back to China in 2010, because all pandas, regardless of where they are born, officially belong to China under international law. Mei Xiang and Tian Tian are on loan to the United States until 2015.
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