 Scientists solve 30-year-old aurora borealis mystery 6 hours ago | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive release of ... | |
 Revolutionary materials reflect ancient forms 7 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although order is pleasing to the eye, it can quickly become boring. In Islamic architecture therefore, decoration often follows a strict yet aperiodic pattern. Similar structures also form ... | |
 Microsoft shakes up online division and deepens Facebook ties 3 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Microsoft is shaking up management of its online division and strengthening its tie to Facebook in the aftermath of a failed bid to buy Yahoo to bolster its lagging Internet business. | |
 Unknown insects found in 110-million-year-old amber in Spain 4 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The remains of several unknown insect species which became extinct long before dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth have been discovered in pieces of 110-million-year-old amber found in Spain, researchers said ... | |
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity 5 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ... | |
Make your own microfluidic device with new kit from U-M 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A type of device called a "lab-on-a-chip" could bring a new generation of instant home tests for illnesses, food contaminants and toxic gases. But today these portable, efficient tools are often stuck in the lab themselves. ... | |
Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw 2 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet. | |
Material may help autos turn heat into electricity 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity. In the current issue of the journal Science, they describe a material ... | |
 Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA Lander 5 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water. ... | |
Study: No gender differences in math performance 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
We've all heard it. Many of us in fact believe it. Girls just aren't as good at math as boys. But is it true? After sifting through mountains of data - including SAT results and math scores from 7 million students who were ... | |
Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued 5 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook. | |
 Arctic 'holds 90bln barrels of oil, mostly offshore' 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore, the government-run US Geological Survey said. | |
The Quiet Explosion: Object intermediate between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts found 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A European-led team of astronomers are providing hints that a recent supernova may not be as normal as initially thought. Instead, the star that exploded is now understood to have collapsed into a black hole, producing a ... | |
Plant steroids offer new paradigm for how hormones work 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the playbook of molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. A new ... | |
 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
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