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The blackbox in your car

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is expected that within the next month officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will declare that all cars must have an event data recorder inside the vehicle.

Technology / Other

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 124 | with audio podcast weblog

Toyota secretive on 'black box' data

(AP) -- Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline "black boxes" that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 12

Experts mull over lessons from Brazil plane crash

(AP) -- The mysterious disappearance of an Air France jet this week while flying over the Atlantic in fierce thunderstorms is stirring a debate about whether new technologies and procedures are needed to prevent similar ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Quantum ghosts are helpful

(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea that far distant particles can somehow 'talk' to each other worried Einstein so much that he called it 'spooky action at a distance'.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (19) | comments 14




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Molecular path from internal clock to cells controlling rest and activity revealed in new study

(PhysOrg.com) -- The molecular pathway that carries time-of-day signals from the body's internal clock to ultimately guide daily behavior is like a black box, says Amita Sehgal, PhD, the John Herr Musser Professor ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Antidepressant-suicide link in youths absent in new analysis

In 2004, concerns about antidepressant drugs increasing suicidal thoughts and behaviors in young patients prompted the FDA to issue a rare "black box warning." Now, a new analysis of clinical trial data finds that treatment ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover method to unravel malaria's genetic secrets

The parasite that causes malaria is a genetic outlier, which has prevented scientists from discovering the functions of most of its genes. Researchers at National Jewish Health and Yale University School of Medicine have ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Toronto teens send Lego man into space: video

A video posted on YouTube Wednesday appeared to show the amazing voyage of a Lego man sent into space on a homemade spacecraft by two Toronto students.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 12

Remote control pushed aside by gesture-sensitive devices

The remote control has never been much beloved. If it's not getting lost or running out of batteries, the device - and its inscrutable buttons - is confusing some family member or acting as a totem in an argument about what ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Debris from way out there

"Well, here it is," said aerospace engineer William Ailor as he paused next to the hulking metal shells arrayed along the plaza outside a visitor entrance at Aerospace Corp.'s El Segundo, Calif., headquarters.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Former trailblazer Kodak files for Chapter 11

Is Kodak's moment past? The glory days when Eastman Kodak Co. ruled the world of film photography lasted for over a century. Then came a stunning reversal of fortune: cutthroat competition from Japanese firms ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Study: Communicating health risk is a risky task for FDA

The impact of efforts by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to notify the general public and health care providers about unanticipated risks from approved medications has been "varied and unpredictable," according to a ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wikipedia, Google to protest Internet bills

Wikipedia went dark, Google blotted out its logo and other popular websites planned protests on Wednesday to voice concern over legislation in the US Congress intended to crack down on online piracy.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 80

Racial identity is changing among Latinos

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in Social Science Research, USC Dornsife’s Amon Emeka and Jody Agius Vallejo look at why many people with Latin American ancestry are not identifying themselves as His ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5


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