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Investigating the effects of visual distraction during natural behavior using VR technology

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Trade-off between dependence on WM and gathering information from the external world. a Our implicit measure of working memory (WM) use: Copying each object requires its identity and location information (attribute) to be held in memory. Counting successful pick-ups (i.e., identity feature used) and placements (i.e., location feature used) between model fixations provided a measure … Read more

Satellite data reveals anomalies up to 19 days before the 2023 earthquake in Turkey

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The intensity map and geographical location of the 2023 Turkey earthquake. A black star indicates the epicenter of the earthquake (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes). Credit: Journal for Applied Geodesy (2024). DOI: 10.1515/jag-2024-0024 Earthquakes may reveal their impending presence much earlier than previously thought due to a variety of anomalies in the ground, atmosphere and ionosphere that can be … Read more

Scientists adapt the astronomy method to blur microscopy images

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Detecting anomalous wavefronts in fluorescence microscopy. Credit: Optics (2024). DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.518559 A team led by researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus has adapted a class of techniques used in astronomy to defocus images of distant galaxies for use in the life sciences, giving biologists a faster and cheaper way to get clearer and sharper images. … Read more

A mountainous mystery discovered in the pink sands of South Australia

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Garnet washed up as pink sand on a beach in the Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park. Credit: University of Adelaide Deposits of deep pink sand washing up on the coast of South Australia shed new light on when the Australian tectonic plate began to subduct beneath the Pacific plate, as well as on the presence of … Read more

How Astro Bot developers are still pushing the boundaries of PS5 technology – IGN

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When the little robot Astro made his PlayStation 5 debut in Astro’s Playroom, his sole mission was to introduce the PS5’s new technology. Now, developer Team Asobi is working to grow him beyond his role as hardware hype man… while still using his adventures as a vehicle to experiment with PS5 technology four years into … Read more

According to recent geochemical discoveries, Earth’s ‘Great Oxidation Event’ occurred over a period of 200 million years

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Credit: CC0 Public domain About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen, or O2first began accumulating to meaningful levels in Earth’s atmosphere, paving the way for the emergence of complex life on our evolving planet. Scientists call this phenomenon the Great Oxidation Event, or GOE for short. But the initial accumulation of O2 on Earth was … Read more

NASA’s Roman mission gets cosmic ‘sneak peek’ from supercomputers – NASA

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Simulated Roman image full of synthetic galaxies

Researchers delve into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real universe. Using supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, scientists have created nearly 4 million simulated images of the cosmos from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by NSF (the … Read more

iPhone users are urged not to download the developer update with an urgent warning

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Updated 09:40 June 12, 2024 GMT+1Published 09:32 June 12, 2024 GMT+1 You might want to cool your jets instead of rushing to download the iOS 18 beta If you’re one of the eager beavers planning to get your hands on Apple’s latest software update as soon as possible, you might want to wait a while … Read more

‘Insane’ amounts of data drive new storage technology – BBC News

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Image caption, Ian Crawford oversees the Imperial War Museum’s media archiving Item information Author, Ben Morris Role, Editor, BBC Technology of Business June 12, 2024 The year 2039 may seem far away, but Ian Crawford is already making plans for it. It marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Second World War – a … Read more

Millions of insects migrate through the 30 meter high Pyrenees Pass

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Marmalade hoverfly. Credit: Will Hawkes More than 17 million insects migrate every year through a single mountain pass on the border between France and Spain, new research shows. Scientists from the University of Exeter have studied migrating insects in the Pass of Bujaruelo, a 30-metre gap between two high peaks in the Pyrenees. Their article, … Read more