 Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons 4 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This ... | |
 Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s new Web browser, called Chrome, does much of what a browser needs to do these days: It presents a sleek appearance, groups pages into easy-to-manage "tabs" and offers several ways for ... | |
 Scientists Develop New Method to Investigate Origin of Life September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary ... | |
Butterfly wings may help scientists better understand photonic crystals September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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As technology moves forward, many scientists are looking to nature to find inspiration for the development of advanced materials that can have a variety of practical applications. | |
 Warmer seas linked to strengthening hurricanes September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study led by a Florida State University researcher. The study will be ... | |
Study: Behavior of Online Reviewers Affects Their Credibility 4 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Consumers increasingly rely on recommendations in online forums, such as Amazon.com and Angieslist.com, when deciding which products and services to buy. But, in most cases, they've never met the posters ... | |
Not enough space: The dicey game of storing, backing up files September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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About five years ago, a technical disaster struck Fernando Santos: His computer hard drive failed. The San Francisco resident lost everything on it and had to reformat his drive. "I lost a lot of nice pictures," said Santos, ... | |
Study: Teen suicide spike was no fluke September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A troubling study in the September 3rd Journal of the American Medical Association raises new concerns about kids committing suicide in this country. After a one year spike in the number of suicides, doctors were hoping ... | |
Gait may be associated with orgasmic ability September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official ... | |
 Sims creator's long-awaited 'playing god' game hits stores 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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"Spore", the eagerly-awaited computer game five years in the making allowing people to play God by re-creating the universe, hits stores worldwide this week. | |
 StellarWindow turns your laptop into a virtual planetarium 5 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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If you enjoy looking at the stars, but get a little impatient trying to figure out which way to hold your star map to identify the constellations, a new software program may make things easier. Called StellarWindow, ... | |
 Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp. Controversy has swirled around Toumai, ... | |
 Canada's Arctic ice shelves break apart, drift away September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Two ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change. | |
 World's glaciers facing huge threat: UN September 01, 2008 | User rating: 2.2 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The United Nations said Monday that swathes of mountain ranges worldwide risk losing their glaciers by the end of the century if global warming continues at its projected rate. | |
 Google takes aim at Microsoft with new Web browser September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search ... | |
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