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Technology MIT Media Lab's Hiroshi Ishii: we need to think beyond pixels on screens We need to think beyond the screen and find ways to present information and ideas in a way that people can interact with in a more exciting way, according to MIT Media Lab's Hiroshi Ishii. Speaking at The Economist's Technology Frontiers event, he described the birth of astronomy and the subsequent invention of the

Physicists have created a quantum gas capable of reaching temperatures below absolute zero and paving the way for future quantum inventions. The chilly substance was composed of potassium atoms which were held in a lattice arrangement using a combination of lasers and magnetic fields. According to a report in the Nature journal, by tweaking the magnetic fields the research team were able to force

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers has been studying whether it's possible to detect psychopathy in people's tweets. Results suggest that in certain contexts, personality prediction through social media can perform with a "reasonably high degree of accuracy". Computer scientists at Florida Atlantic University, the Online Privacy Foundation and Kaggle teamed up to see whether it was possible

Psychologists at the University of Northumbria claim to have discovered exactly what moves men should pull on the dancefloor to get the ladies excited. Nineteen different males were motion-captured, and then their movements were mapped onto computer-generated avatars like the one in the video above. 15-second video clips were generated and showed to 39 females, who rated them for "dance quality".