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Sun CEO's pay package cut by a third in '09 (AP)

Sun CEO's pay package cut by a third in '09

Technology / Business

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The value of Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz's latest pay package dropped 37 percent from last year as the company lost more than $2 billion and was in such dire financial shape that it ...


It Takes a Solar Village

It Takes a Solar Village

Technology / Energy

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rain didn't ruin the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. University teams successfully operated 20 net-zero, grid-connected solar power homes for a week on the National Mall. Some used ...


Netflix to run second film-suggestion tech contest

Technology / Other

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- You might call it "Son of the Netflix Prize."


NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name

'Curiosity': NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school ...


Oops: Colbert wins NASA space station name contest

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 10

(AP) -- NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won.


Nano Song

NanoTube Contest Brings Out the Hollywood Side of Nano Things

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How would you describe "nano" to someone who had never heard of it before? In a video contest held by the American Chemical Society (ACS), scientists-turned-filmmakers are explaining what ...


NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover

NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation ...