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Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 6

The best map of wind speeds on Jupiter ever produced proves that the massive weather system known as the Great Red Spot has shrunken over the past dozen years.


Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter

Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere.


DNA analysis uncovers the prehistory of Norwegian red deer

DNA analysis uncovers the prehistory of Norwegian red deer

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

For his doctoral thesis, Hallvard Haanes discovered that Norwegian red deer are genetically different from other European red deer, due to their historical distribution. However, a century ago, red deer were ...


Storn winds blow in Jupiter's Little Red Spot

Storn winds blow in Jupiter's Little Red Spot

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Using data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes on or near Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system’s largest and newest storms – Jupiter’s Little ...


A survey of China's Great Wall has discovered the ancient monument is much longer than previously estimated

China's Great Wall far longer than thought: survey

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

The most comprehensive and technologically advanced survey of China's Great Wall has discovered the ancient monument is much longer than previously estimated, state media reported Monday.


Scientist Makes Image, Movie of a Jupiter Moon Setting

Scientists Make Image, Movie of a Jupiter Moon Setting

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, is seen just before it slips behind its giant planet in a new color image and a movie made by a University of Arizona scientist from images taken by NASA's ...


Nokia 6700 slide

New Nokia 6700 slide and Nokia 7230 unveiled

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Nokia today unveiled two new 3G slider phones, the Nokia 6700 slide and Nokia 7230, made for the design-conscious consumer and optimized for socializing and sharing with those closest to you.


Spying on Corn Rootworm Predators Nightlife

Spying on Corn Rootworm Predators Nightlife

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist Jonathan G. Lundgren, while exploring corn fields at night, has found a very different group of predators than the ones that feed during the ...


Seaway's 50th anniversary soiled by invasive species

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert ...


Study finds Chinese food good for your heart

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 2

A clinical study on patients who have suffered a heart attack found that a partially purified extract of Chinese red yeast rice, Xuezhikang (XZK), reduced the risk of repeat heart attacks by 45%, revascularization (bypass ...


Scientists increase imaging efficiency in cell structure studies

Biology / Other

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists in the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Laboratory of Bioengineering and Physical Science have developed a new technique that allows researchers to visualize fine details of cell ...


Researchers identify a molecule that increases the risk of cardiac insufficiency

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of scientists from the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the University of Navarra has identified a key enzyme in the development of cardiac insufficiency. This enzyme is involved in the accumulation of ...


Astronomers spot cosmic dust fountain

Astronomers spot cosmic dust fountain

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space dust annoys astronomers just as much as the household variety when it interferes with their observations of distant stars. And yet space dust also poses one of the great mysteries of ...


Ticket's in the mail: Red-light cameras questioned (AP)

Ticket's in the mail: Red-light cameras questioned

Technology / Other

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Minutes after Neel Manglik illegally turned right on a red light in the Des Moines suburb of Clive, a video popped up on a computer at an office park outside Scottsdale, Ariz.


Researchers determine risk factors for infection after liver transplantation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 05, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly 9 percent of patients who recently underwent liver transplantation suffered a subsequent surgical site infection (SSI). Risk factors included having had biliary-enteric anastomosis (choledocho-jejunal or hepatic-jejunal ...