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NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. ...


ET: Check your voicemail

ET: Check your voicemail

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 13 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alien beings on faraway planets may not have noticed, but it’s been 35 years since human beings made the first deliberate effort to send them a message.


First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

Physics / General Physics

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...


Strategic management theory offers fresh take on the economic crisis

Other Sciences / Economics

created 20 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The recent financial crisis and resulting global economic downturn has been the most defining global economic event since the Great Depression. Now research which appears in the November issue of Strategic Organization, publis ...


Kepler Mission Manager Update

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 22 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kepler experienced a safe mode event on Nov. 18, 2009.


New tool for helping pediatric heart surgery

Physics / General Physics

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

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs. It is the basis of a new tool that may help ...


Just in time for Black Friday: students turn iPhone into barcode scanner

Just in time for Black Friday: students turn iPhone into barcode scanner

Technology / Software

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Comparing prices over the Internet has become a common practice for consumers. Now, just in time for Black Friday, a group of Missouri University of Science and Technology students is putting ...


A mechanical model of vocalization

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When people speak, sing, or shout, they produce sound by pushing air over their vocal folds -- bits of muscle and tissue that manipulate the air flow and vibrate within it. When someone has polyps or some other problem with ...


Feeling the way

Feeling the way: Robotic device can help visually impaired people

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For many people, it has become routine to go online to check out a map before traveling to a new place. But for blind people, Google maps and other visual mapping applications are of little ...


Adverse heart effects of rofecoxib may have been identified years earlier

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clinical trial data indicated an association between the anti-inflammatory medication rofecoxib and cardiovascular risk as early as December 2000, before the product was taken off the market in September 2004, according to ...



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