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As someone who spends at least 1,500 hours a year alone in my house playing video games, I can tell you it has always meant pressing a lot of buttons. In video games there has traditionally been a button for everything. Press a button to jump. Press a button to punch. Press a button to

A study published in Science Robotics provides an interesting insight into how robots could be used positively within society Young children are significantly more likely than adults to have their opinions and decisions influenced by robots, according to new research.The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth, compared how adults and children respond to an

Eindhoven University develops the first coating with self-repairing surface functionality Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have for the first time developed a coating with a surface that repairs itself after damage. This new coating has numerous potential applications – for example mobile phones that will remain clean from fingerprints, cars that never need

So-called citizen science has become a significant force in several scholarly disciplines. The phenomenon can be found in both the natural and the social sciences, according to the largest systematic analysis to date on the topic, the results of which are published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. ‘We see that in particular researchers in

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed two inexpensive adapters that enable a smartphone to capture high-quality images of the front and back of the eye. The adapters make it easy for anyone with minimal training to take a picture of the eye and share it securely with other health practitioners or store it

Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven have succeeded in developing a process that purifies air and, at the same time, generates power. The device must only be exposed to light in order to function. “We use a small device with two rooms separated by a membrane,” explains Professor Sammy Verbruggen (UAntwerp/KU Leuven). “Air

World’s first demonstration of persistent luminescence from organic materials set to unlock new and expanded uses for the glow-in-the-dark phenomenon Glow-in-the-dark paints that have improved flexibility and transparency while also being cheaper and easier to manufacture are on the horizon courtesy of new research from Kyushu University. In a groundbreaking demonstration, light emission lasting more

Analysts suggest supporting innovative start-up companies to increase hiring. For the second part in a series on job creation in the US, a look at incubators designed to turn great ideas into huge corporations. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Entrepreneurship Center is located equidistant from the university’s business school, its media and architecture school and engineering

Aligning economic value with currently unpriced things—in nature and society—could be the ticket to global sustainability. The week started off on a dark note. From São Paulo to Seoul, Moscow to Delhi, Toronto to Beijing, a record 4,000 cities, towns, and municipalities dimmed their lights for Earth Hour 2010—a project kicked off three years ago