Fingerprint find in decade-old double murder probe 23 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A decade old US double murder probe has received a new breakthrough following investigations by a University of Leicester forensic scientist at Northamptonshire Police. | |
LHC switch-on fears are completely unfounded: new research paper 12 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published on Friday, 5 September, provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)'s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to ... | |
 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. | |
Physicists investigate how time moves forward 7 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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As humans, we have a very intuitive concept of time, and of the differences between the past, present, and future. But, as scientists Edward Feng of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gavin Crooks of the Lawrence ... | |
Free drug samples may end up costing uninsured more 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Free drug samples provided to physicians by pharmaceutical companies could actually be costing uninsured patients more in the long run, according to a study done by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ... | |
Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US 23 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal ... | |
Technology users are failing to take adequate steps to protect their digital privacy 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
In the face of technology that will soon be able not only to track an individual's movements but predict them too, people are far too relaxed about protecting their privacy, according to social psychologist Saadi Lahlou, ... | |
 MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts 12 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
In what is heralded as the seeds of an Internet-age emergency broadcast system, MySpace has teamed with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spread news on hurricanes through users of the online ... | |
 Robot Scout: Fly Me (Safely) to the Moon 6 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The first attempt to land humans on the moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts ... | |
Atomic structure of the mammalian 'fatty acid factory' determined 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Mammalian fatty acid synthase is one of the most complex molecular synthetic machines in human cells. It is also a promising target for the development of anti-cancer and anti-obesity drugs and the treatment of metabolic ... | |
Michigan integral to world's largest physics experiment 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
After 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its mission. CERN's epic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project currently involves 25 ... | |
Disruption-free videos 7 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Standardized video coding techniques still have their snags -- digitally transmitted images are not always disruption-free. An extension of the H.264/AVC coding format allows to protect the most important data packets to ... | |
NASA chief may consider extending life of shuttle program 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
NASA Administrator Mike Griffin said Thursday that he's examining what it would take to keep the space shuttle flying for five years past its 2010 retirement date. | |
 Wireless technologies used today based on decades of work at Virginia Tech 7 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Technologies used today by companies, such as Direct TV, Iridium Satellite, Bluetooth, and Globalstar, are based on satellite communications efforts started at Virginia Tech four decades ago in its Bradley ... | |
 Pyrenees glaciers will melt by 2050: Spanish study 7 hours ago | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Climate change will melt the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains before 2050, a group of Spanish researchers said Friday. | |
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