 Physicist's gadget lets you hear the sound of a perfect golf swing September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Golf is a game of intense concentration. Golfers receive advice on the precise stance, grip, wrist angle, shoulder angle, head angle, and other details to improve their swings. But a new golf gadget developed ... | |
 Paraben's CSI Stick Copies Data from Cell Phones September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Beware the next time someone borrows your cell phone or you leave it unattended. You may become the next victim of having all your cell phone data copied to the CSI Stick. | |
Invisibility undone: Chinese scientists demonstrate how to uncloak an invisible object September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Harry Potter beware! A team of Chinese scientists has developed a way to unmask your invisibility cloak. According to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, ... | |
Sharp rise in alcoholism among Swedish women: report August 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Alcoholism among women in Sweden rose by 50 percent between 2003 and 2007 as beer, wine and spirits have become more accessible in the country long known for its restrictive alcohol policy, a report on Saturday said. | |
Drunken-driving deaths fall in 32 states August 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Drunken-driving deaths fell in 32 states in 2007, the government reported Thursday, but alcohol-related fatalities increased among motorcycle riders in half the states. | |
 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 peel away the mystery behind gold's catalytic prowess September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Few materials have exercised as much of a hold on the human imagination, or on human history, as has gold. But for all of its popular uses – money, medals, jewelry and more – gold's potential as a catalyst lay hidden until ... | |
US hospitals on lockdown after unknown substance exposure August 31, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Two US hospitals were put on emergency lockdown Saturday after several patients arrived at St. Louis, Missouri emergency rooms after being exposed to an unknown substance, hospital officials said. | |
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, ... | |
 The thousand-ruby galaxy September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way. Shining with the light of billions of stars and the ruby red glow of hydrogen ... | |
 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. | |
 Global sea-rise levels by 2100 my be lower than some predict, says new study September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that ... | |
 New probe could aid quantum computing September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking. Ever since ... | |
 Trichoplax genome sequenced -- 'rosetta stone' for understanding evolution September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular ... | |
Orienting Flow in Carbon Nanotubes September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes provide some of the most interesting possibilities for future technology. One of the more intriguing possibilities – with a variety of practical applications – is using carbon nanotubes for ... | |
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