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The skyline of Tokyo in Japan, where scientists have criticised the new government for plans to slash research budgets

Japan scientists attack govt research cut plans

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Top Japanese scientists, including four Nobel laureates, have criticised the new government for plans to slash research budgets, warning the country will loose its high-tech edge.


Future for Internet retailers: Compete on niche products advises management insights study

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In their competition with brick-and-mortar stores, online retailers will do best if they promote the ability to search out and obtain niche products online, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue ...


FutureGrid to provide platform for experimental computation

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the next few months, a consortium that includes the University of Chicago will establish FutureGrid, a collaborative next-generation system for experimental scientific supercomputing.


New findings suggest strategy to help generate HIV-neutralizing antibodies

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper co-authored by scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute ...


Nanoscale piezoresponse of ferroelectric domains

Highlight: Nanoscale piezoresponse of ferroelectric domains

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The first fundamental studies of the dependence of ferroelectric domain configuration and switching behavior on the shape of epitaxial BiFeO3 (BFO) nanostructures has been reported by users from Northwestern ...


Grant to help zoo visitors learn more about science with their cell phones

Technology / Other

created 14 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zoo visitors may soon use their cell phones to "Call the Wild" as part of a project led by University of Florida researchers to help the public learn more about the nature of science.


Chemo-radiation before prostate removal may prevent cancer recurrence

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers in the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center have found a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy given before prostate removal is ...


Pushing light beyond its known limits

Pushing light beyond its known limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 6

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of.


Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available ...


NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis ...


Scientist shines laser light on methane in pursuit of clean fuel

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

An abundant greenhouse gas could someday help clean up the earth. Converting methane to liquid methanol could produce clean, low-cost fuel and prevent the potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere. Exploiting methane ...


Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in cancer occurs

Study uncovers key to how 'triggering event' in cancer occurs

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop.


Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and ...


Georgia Tech wins NSF award for next-gen supercomputing

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced its receipt of a five-year, $12 million Track 2 award from the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure to lead a partnership of academic, industry and ...


Ecological speciation by sexual selection on good genes: Is speciation adaptive?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Darwin suggested that the action of natural selection can produce new species, but 150 years after the publication of his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species', debate still continues on the mechanisms of speciation. New ...