What is the key to achieving greatness?IANS | Oct 6, 2011, 03.42PM IST What makes one great? Is it intelligence alone or does it also include sustained practice? Working memory capacity – closely related to general intelligence – may...
Same Disaster, Different Creatures
East Coast vs. West Coast Earthquakes: Same Disaster, Different Creatures First Posted: 8/23/11 09:26 PM ET Updated: 8/24/11 11:22 AM ET WASHINGTON (Associated Press)– The East Coast doesn’t get earthquakes often but when they do strike, there’s a whole...
Texas Tech wins competition with world’s smallest chess set
https://chessdailynews.com/spice-1mm-chess-set/ https://chessdailynews.com/world-smallest-chess-set/ Texas Tech Wins Design Competition with Microscopic Chess SetJune 16th, 2010 by Leslie Cranford (PhysOrg.com) — World’s smallest chess set and a microbarbershop win big at Sandia. The world’s smallest chess board, about the diameter of four...
Texas Tech wins award for Microbotic Chess Player
Sandia National Laboratories and the MEMS Technologies Department is pleased to announce the 2010 winners of the MEMS University Alliance Design Competition !!! “NOVEL DESIGN” CATEGORY – Texas Tech University This year’s competition was once again very competitive. Each...
2,487.5 mpg!
2,487.5 mpg! Catchy headline unneccessaryby Nik Bristow on Mar 29th 2010 at 6:01PM For the second year in a row, the student team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada took home the $5,000 top prize in a worst-to-first finish...
Flying cars?
Look Out, Jetsons: Flying Car Is HereCBS News (March 19) How many times have you been stuck in traffic and dreamed of being able to just have your car take off and fly over it? Well, the future is...
‘Borneo Monster’! Believe it or not?
Photos Spark Fear of ‘Borneo Monster’AOL Newsposted: 2 DAYS 16 HOURS AGO (Feb. 19) – Villagers in Borneo who have long believed that a legendary 100-foot-long snake called the Nabau trolls the Baleh River say recent photographs show that...
Solving unsolvable counting problems
A new kind of counting: Scientists develop computer algorithm to solve previously unsolvable counting problemsFebruary 11th, 2009 in General Science / Mathematics Left and center: A map of Germany with corresponding representation as a network. Top right: A simplified...
The gender debate
Why are (the best) women so good at chess?Participation rates and gender differences in intellectual domains26 Jan 2009The Virtual Medical Centre, Australia The lack of women at the top level of intellectually demanding activities like science and chess is...
Read your opponents’ minds?
How to read the mind of your chess opponentSean O’Neill, sub-editorJanuary 22, 2009 2:37 PM If you play chess, you’d likely give your right arm to be able to read the thoughts of your opponent. But imagine if you...