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New research reveals why fishermen keep fishing despite dwindling catches

Half of fishermen would not give up their livelihood in the face of drastically declining catches according to research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using plants to silence insect genes in a high-throughput manner

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene functions in moth larvae by manipulating ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds 'cool' gas may form and strengthen sunspots

Hydrogen molecules may act as a kind of energy sink that strengthens the magnetic grip that causes sunspots, according to scientists from Hawaii and New Mexico using a new infrared instrument on an old telescope.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ancient DNA holds clues to climate change adaptation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty-thousand-year-old bison bones discovered in permafrost at a Canadian goldmine are helping scientists unravel the mystery about how animals adapt to rapid environmental change.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mechanism sheds light on how the brain adapts to stress

Scientists now have a better understanding of the way that stress impacts the brain. New research, published by Cell Press in the January 26 issue of the journal Neuron, reveals pioneering evidence for a new mechanism of str ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new way to stimulate the immune system and fight infection

A study carried out by Eric Vivier and Sophie Ugolini at the Marseille-Luminy Centre for Immunology has just reveal a gene in mice which, when mutated, can stimulate the immune system to help fight against tumors and viral ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Managing private and public adaptation to climate change

New research has found that individuals and the private sector have an important role to play in the provision of public policies to help society adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Subaru's sharp eye confirms signs of unseen planets in the dust ring of HR 4796 A

(PhysOrg.com) -- The SEEDS (Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope/HiCIAO) project, a five-year international collaboration launched in 2009 and led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Do our medicines boost pathogens?

Scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of fish fossil shows that 'head-first' diversity drives vertebrate evolution

The history of evolution is periodically marked by explosions in biodiversity, as groups of species try out a wide range of shapes and sizes. With a new analysis of two such adaptive radiations in the fossil ...

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

First low-mass star detected in globular cluster

Even the most powerful high-tech telescopes are barely able to record remote low-mass and thus faint stars. Together with researchers from Poland and Chile, an astrophysicist from the University of Zurich ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Seagate soups up laptop PC performance with fast, second-generation solid state hybrid drive

Seagate is now shipping the second generation of Momentus XT, its groundbreaking solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the company’s fastest drive ever for personal computers. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 12

Scientists reveal where growing conditions today mirror future climates

With climate change posing a threat to food production around the world, scientists are developing a form of virtual time travel that can offer farmers in many countries a glimpse of their future by identifying regions where ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

British butterfly is evolving to respond to climate change

As global temperatures rise and climatic zones move polewards, species will need to find different environments to prevent extinction. New research, published today in the journal Molecular Ecology, has re ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seagate intros second-generation solid state hybrid drive

Seagate is now shipping the second generation of Momentus XT, its groundbreaking solid state hybrid drive for consumer and commercial laptops and the company’s fastest drive ever for personal computers. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 12

Adapter

An adapter or adaptor (-er is the accepted spelling in US English, both spellings in use in UK English [although US usage often is adapter for a person and adaptor for a device])[1][2][3] is a device whose purpose is to convert attributes of one device or system to those of an otherwise incompatible device or system.

Some adapters may only affect physical attributes:

Other adapters may affect electrical attributes:

For more information about Adapter, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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