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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Watch the Video [ Improving Our Depth Perception in Augmented Reality ] The same technology used to produce that first down line on television at an NFL football game is also being used to help future surgeons perform operations. Augmented reality, or "AR," is the computer-generated virtual objects that sports fans have grown to both love and hate over the years. While there have been AR successes like the yellow line in football,...

Biologist Chris Morgan searches for the elusive animal in Russia's frozen forest. NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hunted almost to extinction, the last wild Siberian tigers can only be found in the forests of the far eastern Russian frontier - but not easily. And they had never been filmed in the wild, until one man went to new extremes in order to succeed where all others had failed. Filmmaker Sooyong Park left friends and family in Korea to spend more than...

A medical school committee is weighing whether to hire a promising young neuroscientist. Will she have a brilliant future as a researcher, publish in top journals and nab abundant research funds? If only there were a crystal ball. Wait, now there is! A new Northwestern Medicine study published Sept. 13 in Nature offers the first formula that accurately predicts a young scientist's success up to 10 years into the future and could be useful for hiring and funding decisions. Currently,...

Sex can trigger remarkable female responses including altered fertility, immunity, libido, eating and sleep patterns - by the activation of diverse sets of genes, according to research from the University of East Anglia. Publishing today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the researchers studied how female Drosophila melanogaster - or fruit flies – respond to mating. They discovered that a single protein found in semen generates a wide range of responses in many genes...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Immersion, the global leader and pioneer in augmented reality (AR) will demonstrate an evolution of the online shopping experience at the IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam September 7-12 in the Intel Experience booth. IBC attendees visiting the Intel Experience booth will witness a demonstration of the AR Virtual Dressing Room, a digital shopping solution that uses Augmented Reality to enable consumers to virtually try on different types...

Illusion Optical Displays announced the winner of their $10,000 Facebook contest with Barbara Wright Design. The contest allowed opticals throughout the country to submit a one to two minute video detailing why they should win a new optical with $5,000 in products from Illusion Optical Displays and $5,000 in design services from Barbara Wright Design. After open voting and judging, Blink Eyecare and Eyewear from Charlotte, North Carolina was announced as the winner. (PRWEB) September 05,...

Giant network links all known compounds and reactions to create chemical Google on steroids Northwestern University scientists have connected 250 years of organic chemical knowledge into one giant computer network -- a chemical Google on steroids. This "immortal chemist" will never retire and take away its knowledge but instead will continue to learn, grow and share. A decade in the making, the software optimizes syntheses of drug molecules and other important compounds, combines long...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A report published Aug. 22 in the open access journal PLOS ONE states that, despite the nature of their mating being very traumatic and biologically costly, the female sea slug will mate more often than required to in order to reproduce. The mating behavior of a simultaneously hermaphroditic species of sea slug was examined by Rolanda Lange of the University of Tuebingen in Germany, who led the study, along with colleagues. This...

A new study by researchers from the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, and the Wildlife Conservation Society has found that locally managed marine protected areas within Fiji are playing an increasingly important role in the nation's strategy to protect inshore habitats. The study estimates that by 2020, locally managed marine protected areas within the Fiji Locally Managed Marine Area...

LONDON, August 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Figures released by HomeAway.co.uk show strong growth for Hungary and a return in demand for Japan The F1 Grand Prix that took place in Budapest at the end of July had a huge impact on the holiday rentals market, according to HomeAway.co.uk [http://www.homeaway.co.uk ]. Following the London Olympics and World Cup trends, property owners in Hungary tapped into the potential of the high...