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Intuit app lets iPhones prepare US tax returns

Just in time for the dreaded US tax season, financial software powerhouse Intuit is releasing an application that lets iPhones prepare returns.

Technology / Software

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Electromagnetic fields as cutting tools

(PhysOrg.com) -- The bodywork on motor vehicles must be sufficiently stable, but processing the high-strength steels involved -- for example punching holes in them -- can prove something of a challenge. A new steel-cutting ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 13

Measured -- The time it takes us to find the words we need

(PhysOrg.com) -- The time it takes for our brains to search for and retrieve the word we want to say has been measured for the first time. The discovery is reported in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Water Bears to Travel to Martian Moon, Test Theory of Transpermia

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny microscopic creatures commonly known as water bears (also called Tardigrades), along with a few other life forms, will be sent to the Martian moon Phobos to test whether organisms can ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 22 weblog

Researchers identify workings of L-form bacteria

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have for the first time identified the genetic mechanisms involved in the formation and survival of L-form bacteria. Their findings are described in a study ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Financial aid rules influence household portfolio decisions

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Student Aid Financial Responsibility Act to address problems with the current financial aid system. The act calls for several changes to simplify the Federal ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review: Password management eases with Net storage

(AP) -- Do you use your kids' names? Your pet's? Your favorite color? We all use some dumb passwords that are too easy to guess.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Fitting squares into circles

Particle filters are standard in the basic fittings for cars. Construction machines, city buses and garbage trucks must now follow suit. This can be achieved effectively and inexpensively thanks to a new material ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Optimum running speed is stride toward understanding human body form

(PhysOrg.com) -- Runners, listen up: If your body is telling you that your pace feels a little too fast or a little too slow, it may be right.

Biology / Evolution

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High novelty-seeking and low avoidance of harm contribute to alcohol dependence

Personality factors can influence the development of alcohol dependence (AD). Researchers examined a group of AD individuals with the inactive form of aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) - persons who would normally have a ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U-M researcher's idea may soon simplify financial aid process

(PhysOrg.com) -- Parents of students considering college are now struggling with a federal form that is longer and more grueling than the IRS Form 1040 but that could soon change, thanks to the work of a University of Michigan ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Security blankets: Materialism and death anxiety lead to brand loyalty

Materialistic people tend to form strong connections to particular product brands when their level of anxiety about death is high, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Verdict: Supermassive black holes not guilty of shutting down star formation

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Yale University astronomers has discovered that galaxies stop forming stars long before their central supermassive black holes reach their most powerful stage, meaning the black ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Baby Jupiters must gain weight fast

The planet Jupiter gained weight in a hurry during its infancy. It had to, since the material from which it formed probably disappeared in just a few million years, according to a new study of planet formation ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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