The origin of the idea of moving objects by acoustic vibration can be traced back to 1787, when Ernst Chladni reported the first detailed studies on the aggregation of sand onto nodal lines of a ...

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) scientists have shown that they can tell what kind of object a person is looking at -- a face, a house, a shoe, a chair -- by the pattern of brain activity ...

Researchers found that people make much more accurate estimates when they have access to information about both the speed of a moving object and the timing of its rhythmic patterns. Catching a ...

Humans can visually perceive the motion of a small object better than that of a large one. By contrast, according to a study reported in the journal Current Biology on September 5, babies under 6 ...

Until recently, vehicle-mounted radar sensors and miniature cameras have mostly focused on the relatively simple task of monitoring the position and speed of large, solid objects in front of a vehicle ...

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Laura Kelley receives funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013). Many animals use the colours and patterns on their ...

You know that phrase, “The only way to move is forward?” It was probably coined by a runner. The breakdown of the human body’s fundamental movement patterns can vary, depending on who you talk to.

New simulations reveal interstellar objects don't arrive uniformly, with concentrations from the solar apex and galactic ...