Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (151) |
22
During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million ...
Quiet wind turbine could provide up to 30% of a home's power
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.2 / 5 (95) |
27
(PhysOrg.com) -- A quiet wind turbine developed in Scotland is now available in the US and Canada. Its developers say that the roof-based turbine can provide significant power for homes and commercial buildings ...
Birth of a new ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.4 / 5 (69) |
5
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a remote part of northern Ethiopia, the Earth’s crust is being stretched to breaking point, providing geologists with a unique opportunity to watch the birth of what may eventually become ...
'Ghost of Mirach' Materializes in Space Telescope Image
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (26) |
3
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Dutch researchers crack Internet security of the future
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (23) |
0
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands have managed to crack the so-called McEliece encryption system. This system is a candidate for the security of Internet traffic in the age of the ...
Tools give earlier date for 'modern-thinking' humans
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.7 / 5 (21) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team, including Oxford University archaeologists, has dated two explosions of sophisticated stone tool making in southern Africa much more precisely than has previously been ...
Student drives shoppers up wall with hot gadget
Oct 31, 2008 |
3.9 / 5 (23) |
7
(PhysOrg.com) -- An enterprising student from The University of Manchester is set to drive Christmas shoppers up the wall with a new must-have gadget.
Religious belief and devotion linked to sense of personal control
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 31, 2008 |
3.2 / 5 (23) |
6
(PhysOrg.com) -- An individual's level of commitment to religious rituals like praying and attending service is directly linked to their sense of personal control in life, according to new University of Toronto research.
Vigorous activity protects against breast cancer
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.2 / 5 (17) |
0
Normal-weight women who carry out lots of vigorous exercise are approximately 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who don't exercise vigorously. A study of more than thirty thousand postmenopausal American ...
Mini-laboratory gets megaproductive
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.8 / 5 (13) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dawid Zalewski of the University of Twente, Netherlands, has developed a mini-laboratory on a chip that can purify biological mixtures continuously. This is very different from the usual method ...
Extinct sabertooth cats were social, found strength in numbers, study shows
Biology /
Oct 31, 2008 |
3.8 / 5 (13) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- The sabertooth cat (Smilodon fatalis), one of the most iconic extinct mammal species, was likely to be a social animal, living and hunting like lions today, according to new scientific resear ...
Bare bones of crystal growth: Biomolecules enhance metal contents in calcite
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (9) |
0
From shells to bones, the skeletons of organisms contain small amounts of impurity elements such as magnesium. Because the levels of these elements provide important clues to past environments, a considerable effort has focused ...
Nokia Unveils N79 and N85 Smartphones
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 31, 2008 |
3.5 / 5 (11) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nokia has announced the unveiling of two new Nseries devices that's aimed at driving down the cost of their smartphones. The N85 model will be replacing the N81 and upgrades the camera from ...
It's relative: Contrasting hurricane theories heat up
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
3.7 / 5 (9) |
1
In a paper published in the journal Science today, scientists Gabriel A. Vecchi of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Kyle L. Swanson of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Atmospheric Scienc ...
Harnessing network anarchy for the common good
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 31, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (7) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anarchy may be the bane of political conservatives, but on the internet it is the essence of the information superhighway.
