Children who are spanked have lower IQs, new research finds

Medicine & Health / Health

Sep 25, 2009 | 2.9 / 5 (42) | 70

Children who are spanked have lower IQs worldwide, including in the United States, according to new groundbreaking research by University of New Hampshire professor Murray Straus. The research results will ...

Computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines

Technology / Computer Sciences

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (22) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual ...

Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (17) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese scientists today reveal the discovery of five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils which are significantly older than any previously reported. The new finds are indisputably older ...

Active Shutter 3D Technology for HDTV

Technology / Hi Tech

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (14) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony and Panasonic have recently announced a new technology, called "active shutter" for producing the experience of 3D on high definition TVs. The first models are expected to be available ...

Very High Energy Gamma Rays

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gamma-rays are the most energetic known form of electromagnetic radiation, with each gamma ray being at least one hundred thousand times more energetic than an optical light photon. The most ...

Intel's Atom CE 4100 SoC Will Transform Internet TV (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (12) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the IDF event, in Santa Clara, California, Intel announced the debut of their newest System-on-Chip (SoC), the Intel Atom processor CE4100. The CE4100 SoC is designed exclusively to facilitate ...

Comprehensive understanding of bacteria could lead to new insights into many organisms

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Sep 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (9) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of California, San Diego, The Scripps Research Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and other ...

Ants vs. worms: New computer security mimics nature

Technology / Computer Sciences

Sep 25, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (13) | 2

In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature's hardiest creatures -- the ant.

Insulin boost restores muscle growth in elderly

Medicine & Health / Research

Sep 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 1

When most people think of insulin, they think of diabetes — a disease that arises when, for one reason or another, insulin can't do the critical job of helping the body process sugar. But the hormone has another, less well-known ...

How would Einstein use e-mail? Letter writers of yore had same correspondence patterns as e-mail users today

Other Sciences / Mathematics

Sep 25, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (9) | 0

You're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence.

New research may lead to revolutionary new devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 1

Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in ...

Prototype developed to detect dark matter

Physics / Optics & Photonics

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 2

A team of researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR, Spain) and the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS, in France) has developed a "scintillating bolometer", a device that the scientists will ...

Code breakthrough delivers safer computing

Technology / Computer Sciences

Sep 25, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer researchers at UNSW and NICTA have achieved a breakthrough in software which will deliver significant increases in security and reliability and has the potential to be a major commercialisation success.

Infant pain, adult repercussions

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Sep 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 1

Scientists at Georgia State University have uncovered the mechanisms of how pain in infancy alters how the brain processes pain in adulthood.

US sends 2 missile defense satellites into orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 25, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (6) | 4

(AP) -- Two satellites are heading to orbit as part of a missile defense program demonstration.