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Facebook: Overseeing your online afterlife Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:21 AM PST On Feb. 12, Facebook rolled out a new feature called Legacy Contact, which gives people a platform for remembering and celebrating the lives of loved ones when they die.

Light reveals new details of Paul Gauguin's creative process Posted: 14 Feb 2015 03:45 PM PST French artist Paul Gauguin is well known for his colorful paintings, but he also was a highly experimental printmaker. Little is known, however, about how he created his complex graphic works. Now a team of scientists and art conservators has used a light bulb, an SLR camera and computational power to uncover new details of Gauguin's process -- how he formed, layered and re-used imagery to make 19 unique graphic works.

Better how-to videos: Learners annotate videos, increasing their educational value Posted: 11 Feb 2015 10:21 AM PST Educational researchers have long held that presenting students with clear outlines of the material covered in lectures improves their retention. Recent studies indicate that the same is true of online how-to videos. A new system recruits viewers to create high-level conceptual outlines.

Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukemia drugs Posted: 09 Feb 2015 08:32 AM PST The first comprehensive computer model to simulate the development of blood cells could help in the development of new treatments for leukemia and lymphoma, say researchers.