Sunset is seen over the sea

Catastrophic sea levels 'distinct possibility' this century: study

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (89) | comments 25

A breakthrough study of fluctuations in sea levels the last time Earth was between ice ages, as it is now, shows that oceans rose some three meters in only decades due to collapsing ice sheets.


Solar Satellite

Space-Based Solar Power Coming to California in 2016

Technology / Energy

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (70) | comments 55

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the near future, a solar power satellite may be supplying electricity to 250,000 homes around Fresno County, California. Unlike ground-based solar arrays, satellites would be unaffected ...


Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds

Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change will cause some of Australia’s potential weeds to move south by up to 1000km, according to a report by scientists at CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship.


Climate change makes migrations longer for birds

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 2

Bird migrations are likely to get longer according to the first ever study of the potential impacts of climate change on the breeding and winter ranges of migrant birds.


Physicists put a new spin on electrons

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 4

In the first demonstration of its kind, researchers at the University of British Columbia have controlled the spin of electrons using a ballistic technique--bouncing electrons through a microscopic channel of precisely constructed, ...


Researchers Build World's Largest Disease Association Network

Researchers Build World's Largest Disease Association Network

Biology / Other

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you suffer from hypertension, how much does your risk for developing diabetes or other illnesses increase? Medical experts have long known that many diseases are related to one another, ...


Green light from Silicon

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have made a surprise discovery that the material at the heart of the microelectronics industry can emit green light.


Nanoribbon

Rice researchers unzip the future

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Scientists at Rice University have found a simple way to create basic elements for aircraft, flat-screen TVs, electronics and other products that incorporate sheets of tough, electrically conductive material.


A Moon based green house

US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Astronauts' meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the Moon.


Archeologists discover temple that sheds light on 'Dark Age'

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 2

The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey — thought to be constructed during the time of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC -- sheds light on the so-called Dark Age.


Satellites show how Earth moved during Italy quake

Satellites show how Earth moved during Italy quake

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying satellite radar data from ESA's Envisat and the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analysing the movement of Earth during and after the 6.3 earthquake that ...


New business theory shows compensation plans can make or break a firm

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Greed has been blamed for most of Wall Street's woes and the banking sector's recent collapse, but two professors at Washington University in St. Louis say envy is really to blame. And, they warn, envy is ...


Parasite breaks its own DNA to avoid detection

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, is like a thief donning a disguise. Every time the host's immune cells get close to destroying the parasite, it escapes detection by rearranging its DN ...


Neanderthal

Study confirms 3 Neanderthal sub-groups

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The Neanderthals inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Now, a group of researchers are questioning whether or not the Neanderthals ...


Tentacles of venom: New study reveals all octopuses are venomous

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Once thought to be only the realm of the blue-ringed octopus, researchers have now shown that all octopuses and cuttlefish, and some squid are venomous. The work indicates that they all share a common, ancient venomous ancestor ...




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