Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Out of Safe Mode

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 09, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter today has been taken out of the precautionary 'safe mode' it had been in since August.

SwRI's integrated avionics control NASA's WISE spacecraft

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

NASA's latest spacecraft, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched Dec. 14, carries an ultra-sensitive infrared instrument that will take nearly 1.5 million images of the sky at four wavelengths and provide ...

Learning styles debunked

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (13) | 3

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you've pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. And you're not alone— for ...

'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Dec 10, 2009 | 2 / 5 (3) | 3

The slogan is "one laptop per child." But it will be a long time before that is true everywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a new device aims to make a situation that is common in poor areas - one computer shared ...

Old math reveals new thinking in children's cognitive development

Biology / Other

Dec 11, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

Five-year-olds can reason about the world from multiple perspectives simultaneously, according to a new theory by researchers in Japan and Australia. Using an established branch of mathematics called Category Theory, the ...

Understanding apples' ancestors

Biology / Ecology

Dec 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Wild Malus orientalis -- species of wild apples that could be an ancestor of today's domesticated apples -- are native to the Middle East and Central Asia. A new study comparing the diversity of recently acquir ...

How do we understand written language?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 1

How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...

Roe of marine animals is best natural source of omega-3

Medicine & Health / Health

Dec 11, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 1

The roe of hake, lumpsucker and salmon is the best dietary source of Omega 3, according to a study carried out by researchers at the University of Almería (UAL). The scientists analysed the eggs, or ...

The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

Other Sciences / Other

Dec 11, 2009 | 4 / 5 (10) | 1

As the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise boldly went to explore new worlds week after week on Star Trek, they used a host of futuristic technologies — including tricorders, holodecks, teleportation systems ...

Studying hair of ancient Peruvians answers questions about stress

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 09, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent studies show that one in three Canadians suffer from stress and the number is on the rise. But stress isn't a new problem.

Researcher studies the universe through quantum electrodynamics

Physics / Quantum Physics

Dec 17, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental constants, such as the standards for length and mass, are a given in our society. However, research has shown that these constants might be changing slightly with the expansion of the universe.

Nonverbal communication of race bias on TV influences viewers' own bias

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Dec 17, 2009 | 3.2 / 5 (9) | 2

Subtle patterns of nonverbal behavior that appear on popular television programs influence racial bias among viewers, according to research from Tufts University to appear in the December 18, 2009, issue of the journal Science.

UNSW students sequence genome of the Wollemi Pine

Biology / Biotechnology

Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UNSW students have sequenced the chloroplast genome of the ancient Wollemi Pine - a world first that could reveal how a "dinosaur" of the tree kingdom survived 200 million years of shifting ...

'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 10, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks ...

Moral dilemma scenarios prone to biases

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Picture the following hypothetical scenario: A trolley is headed toward five helpless victims. The trolley can be redirected so that only one person's life is at stake. Psychologists and philosophers have been using moral ...