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Traffic jams follow explosive pattern, says researcher

Traffic jams follow explosive pattern, says researcher (w/Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Picture this next time you're stuck in traffic: Thousands of wildebeests loping across the Serengeti Plain when suddenly a few spooked animals turn the orderly migration into a sea of locked ...





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Explosives at the microscopic scale produce shocking results

Explosives at the microscopic scale produce shocking results

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (44) | comments 0

U.S. troops blew up enemy bridges with explosives in World War II to slow the advance of supplies or enemy forces.


MIT takes aim at ‘phantom’ traffic jams

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Countless hours are lost in traffic jams every year. Most frustrating of all are those jams with no apparent cause — no accident, no stalled vehicle, no lanes closed for construction.


Nanoparticles Generate Supersonic Shock Waves to Target Cancer

Nanoparticles Generate Supersonic Shock Waves to Target Cancer

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 16, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (60) | comments 1

By mixing nanomaterials that act as fuel and oxidizer, researchers have created a combustible nano explosive that can generate shock waves with Mach numbers up to 3.


Google's Wave communications platform testing continues to be private with "a lot of features yet to be done"

Google wants businesses to ride Wave

Technology / Internet

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Google pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity.


AppJet launched in December of 2007

Google buys online collaboration startup

Technology / Internet

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

Online collaboration startup AppJet said that Google is buying the San Francisco firm and merging its technology with an innovation Wave communication platform the Internet giant is creating.


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Research team says extraterrestrial impact to blame for Ice Age extinctions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 24, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (46) | comments 0

What caused the extinction of mammoths and the decline of Stone Age people about 13,000 years ago remains hotly debated. Overhunting by Paleoindians, climate change and disease lead the list of probable causes. ...


Research pinpoints conditions favorable for freak waves

Research pinpoints conditions favorable for freak waves

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stories of ships mysteriously sent to watery graves by sudden, giant waves have long puzzled scientists and sailors. New research by Assistant Professor of Geosciences Tim Janssen suggests ...


It's time for a 'third wave' of malaria activism to tackle drug shortages

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In this week's PLoS Medicine, the journal's editors call for concerted international action to address the crisis of malaria drug shortages across Africa.


On the Crest of Wave Energy

On the Crest of Wave Energy

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, limited efficiency, and the ...


Galician waves are best for producing energy

Galician waves are best for producing energy

Technology / Energy

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The best coastal areas in the Iberian Peninsula in terms of harnessing wave energy are the Costa da Morte and Estaca de Bares, in La Coruña, Galicia, according to two pioneering studies by researchers from ...



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