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Apple's iPhone

Modified iPhones Are Compromised By New Worm

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research security firms have reported a new worm attack against jail broken iPhones, dubbed "Ikee.B or "Duh", this worm searches for personal and banking information.


Scientists discover possible cosmic defect, remnant from Big Bang

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 25, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (86) | comments 5

Scientists from the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) and the University of Cambridge may have discovered an example of a cosmic defect, a remnant from the Big Bang called a texture. If confirmed, their discovery, ...


Creativity in mathematics

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

"Mathematics links Art and Science in one great enterprise, the human attempt to make sense of the universe." So writes Abel Prizewinner and Fields Medalist Sir Michael F. Atiyah in the January 2010 Notices of the American Ma ...


Physicists testing Nobel-winning theory

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soeren Prell and a team of Iowa State University researchers are part of an international research team testing a theory that led to a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for Japanese researchers Makoto ...


Grant to Design Neutrino Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.


A line on string theory

A line on string theory

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard theoretical physicist has discussed with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland the possibility that they may discover a theorized "stau" particle, with a lifetime ...


Animated Movie of Ice

Chemistry /

created Jan 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

An animated movie shows an ordered structure dissolving little by little into a disordered mess after a light pulse: Swedish researchers from the University of Uppsala have used a computer to simulate ice melting after it ...


Lowering the Blow

Medicine & Health / Health

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Serving lower-alcohol drinks at public events can help reduce the number of people who need medical attention.


Strained silicon carries light for cheaper commercial electronics

Strained silicon carries light for cheaper commercial electronics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 23, 2006 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (64) | comments 0

By physically compressing a silicon waveguide – and thus allowing variations in the way light travels through the material – scientists have discovered a key to creating a silicon electro-optic modulator. This ...


BCS superconductors

Researchers explore magnetic properties of iron-based superconductors

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have proposed theoretical models to explain the normal magnetic properties in iron-based superconductors. This research was published in the December 21, 2008 ...



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