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Guide to breaking cell phone security revealed

Technology / Telecom

created 6 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- A German security expert has raised the ire of the cell phone industry after he and a group of researchers posted online a how-to guide for cracking the encryption that keeps the calls of GSM-standard cell phone users ...


Cross-border conservation efforts can yield better results at less cost

Cross-border conservation efforts can yield better results at less cost

Biology / Ecology

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Coordination of conservation efforts across national boundaries could achieve significantly higher results and at less cost than conservation actions planned within individual states, researchers at the Hebrew ...


Russian scientists will soon work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible collision with a giant asteroid

Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 19

Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia's space agency said Wednesday.


NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon

NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus, an Asteroid or the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better ...


NASA awards CU-Boulder $3.3 million for concept study for mission to Venus

NASA awards CU-Boulder $3.3 million for concept study for mission to Venus

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $3.3 million for a detailed, one-year concept study for a lander mission to Venus to study the history of its surface, climate and atmosphere and to predict ...


Use of telemedicine for ICU patients not linked with improvement in survival

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Remote monitoring of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) was not associated with an overall improvement in the risk of death or length of stay in the ICU or hospital, according to a study in the December 23/30 issue of ...


Chlorophylls effective against aflatoxin

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study has found that chlorophyll and its derivative chlorophyllin are effective in limiting the absorption of aflatoxin in humans. Aflatoxin is produced by a fungus that is a contaminant of grains including corn, peanuts ...


New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI

New Video Reveals Secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's going to take infrared eyes to see farther back in time than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and that's what the James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI or Mid-Infrared Instrument detectors ...


Tarantula venom-based MD therapy to be advanced by UB scientists' biotech company

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

University at Buffalo biophysicists have found a protein in tarantula venom that shows promise as a potential therapy for muscular dystrophy (MD). They have formed a start-up biotech company in Buffalo -- Rose Pharmaceuticals ...


Judge not lest ye be judged? Researchers explore 'moral hypocrisy' in powerful people

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 34

2009 may well be remembered for its scandal-ridden headlines, from admissions of extramarital affairs by governors and senators, to corporate executives flying private jets while cutting employee benefits, and most recently, ...


Researchers Use New Acoustic Tools to Study Marine Mammals and Fish

Researchers Use New Acoustic Tools to Study Marine Mammals and Fish

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past decade, researchers have developed a variety of reliable real-time and archival instruments to study sounds made or heard by marine mammals and fish. These new sensors are now ...


Blood test that provides prior blood sugar average now recommended for diabetes screening, diagnosis (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an annual supplement to the journal Diabetes Care, published Dec. 29 by the American Diabetes Association, the A1C test is given a prominent role in the 2010 guidelines for diabetes screening, diagnosis ...


CU Students to Build Tiny Spacecraft to Observe 'Space Weather' Environment

CU Students to Build Tiny Spacecraft to Observe 'Space Weather' Environment

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded $840,000 from the National Science Foundation for students to build a tiny spacecraft to observe energetic particles in space that should ...


Sick of blurred identity, US plant pathologists formed own society

Biology / Other

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spinach with fungus, malnourished cabbage, spots on cauliflower and peaches injured by frost. No matter the malady, a group of people who fashioned themselves as "plant doctors" assembled for the first time 100 years ago ...


Better airport scanners delayed by privacy fears (AP)

Better airport scanners delayed by privacy fears

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

(AP) -- High-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner have been installed in only a small number of airports around the world, in large part because ...