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Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

Proposed Spacetime Structure Could Provide Hints for Quantum Gravity Theory

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (55) | comments 16 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spacetime, which consists of three dimensions of space and one time dimension, is such a large, abstract concept that scientists have a very difficult time understanding and defining it. Moreover, ...


Vacuum flask

Scientists Create Material More Insulating than the Vacuum

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (57) | comments 27 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its complete lack of atoms, a vacuum is often considered to be the best known insulator. For this reason, vacuums are regularly used to reduce heat transfer, such as in the lining of ...


Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios

Rice physicists find reappearing quantum trios

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 8

Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first ...


Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

Glint of Sunlight Confirms Liquid in Northern Lake District of Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini Spacecraft has captured the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan, confirming the presence of liquid on the part of the moon dotted with many large, ...


Facebook (and systems biologists) take note: Network analysis reveals true connections

Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...


FCC seeking to close programming access loophole

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Federal regulators are seeking to close a loophole that allows cable TV operators to withhold sporting events and other popular programming that they own from rival providers such as satellite TV.


Hollywood adds money, talent to made-for-Web shows (AP)

Hollywood adds money, talent to made-for-Web shows

Technology / Internet

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Web sites that buy original video clips often pay so little that "The Bannen Way," a flashy crime thriller debuting online, looked destined to be made poorly if it could be made at all.


The importance of attractiveness depends on where you live

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Do good-looking people really benefit from their looks, and in what ways? A team of researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of Kansas found that yes; attractive people do tend to have more social relationships ...


UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume

UCSD Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," released today by the University of ...


Study shows health care spending spurs economic growth

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

As the national discussion of health care focuses on costs, a new study from North Carolina State University shows that it might be more accurate to think of health care spending as an investment that can spur economic growth. ...


Volunteer program provides quality low-risk operative care to patients in need

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that a volunteer program providing low-risk outpatient surgical procedures can deliver safe and effective health care t ...


CT: The first-line imaging choice of physicians for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computed tomography (CT), a highly accurate, readily available medical imaging technique, is the overwhelmingly preferred technique of emergency physicians and radiologists for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), according ...


Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Postal services get exclusive '.post' address

Technology / Internet

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Global postal services will soon have their own address on the Internet, after the web's authority for assigning domain names ICANN, said on Friday that it had approved the new address dot post (.post).


Senate Democrats clear hurdle on health care bill (AP)

Health Care bill clears key Senate test

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 6

(AP) -- Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all ...


Formula to detect an author's literary 'fingerprint'

Formula to detect an author's literary 'fingerprint'

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Using literature written by Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and Herman Melville, physicists in Sweden have developed a formula to detect different authors' literary 'fingerprints'.