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Bird songs change with environment

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist.


Australia's most endangered snake might need burning

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Conserving Australia's most endangered snake might mean lighting more bush fires, ecologists have proposed.


Most Alaskan glaciers retreating, thinning, and stagnating

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (19) | comments 1

Most glaciers in every mountain range and island group in Alaska are experiencing significant retreat, thinning or stagnation, especially glaciers at lower elevations, according to a new book published by the U.S. Geological ...





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Swiss and Google reach privacy accord pending verdict

Technology / Internet

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

Google has agreed not to put pictures of Switzerland on its "Street View" picture map under a provisional accord to end a privacy battle with Swiss authorities, the government said Friday.


New pictures reveal rich Antarctic marine life in area of rapid climate change

New pictures reveal rich Antarctic marine life in area of rapid climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New photographs of ice fish, octopus, sea pigs, giant sea spiders, rare rays and beautiful basket stars that live in Antarctica’s continental shelf seas are revealed this week by the British ...


Greenland glaciers:  What lies beneath

Greenland glaciers: What lies beneath

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Scientists who study the melting of Greenland's glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.


Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s (AP)

Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Ten years ago, we would have been blown away by a cell phone with far more computing power and memory than the average PC had in 1999, along with a built-in camera and programs to manage every aspect ...


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Google Collaborates with D-Wave on Possible Quantum Image Search

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Always on the cutting edge of new computing technologies, Google has recently announced that it is investigating the use of quantum computing schemes to achieve faster image recognition rates. ...


Oh, the Secrets Ice Crystals Will Tell!

Studying ice crystals to understand the cloud-climate connection

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning in mid-December, scientists will undertake a special mission to squeeze the secrets out of ice crystals in cirrus clouds. The SPARTICUS, or Small Particles in Cirrus, campaign will ...


Journal highlights forest service early warning system

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A national early warning system designed to assist land managers in rapidly detecting threats to forest health is featured in the cover article of the October 2009 issue of Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS), ...


NVIDIA Demonstrates 3D Blu-ray Playback Accelerated On GeForce And 3D Vision Technologies

NVIDIA Demonstrates 3D Blu-ray Playback Accelerated On GeForce And 3D Vision Technologies

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

2010 is poised to be the year where consumers can enjoy stunning 3D experiences across all entertainment mediums, including gaming, photographs, Web browsing, and of course, movies. And, with the forthcoming ...


Personalities judged by physical appearance alone

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Observers were able to accurately judge some aspects of a stranger's personality from looking at photographs, according to a study in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSBP), the official monthl ...


NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

NASA's WISE Set to Blast Off and Map the Skies

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- The countdown clock is ticking, with just days to go before the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, rockets into space on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light.



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