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Scientists take a step towards uncovering the histone code

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have determined the structures of two enzymes that customize histones, the spool-like proteins around which DNA coils inside the cell.


French publishing house Le Seuil claimed that up to 4,000 of its works have been digitised by Google without consent

French court orders Google to stop scanning French books

Technology / Internet

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A French court on Friday told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages.


A scale model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic readies maiden suborbital flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 10

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars. (Update: Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship) ...


Fock states could hold clues to quantum memory components

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 10 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Fock states will play a role in the future of quantum computing,” Andrew Cleland tells PhysOrg.com. “We have completed the first experimental measurement of the time decay of Fock states in a superconducting quantu ...


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Choosing a Low Radiation Cell Phone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 10 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Environmental Working Group (EWG) team has released a consumer guide on the radiation levels emitted by over 1,000 cell phones sold in the U.S. The guide is the most comprehensive ever ...


Trust Linux!

Trust Linux!

Technology / Software

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive ...


Fire Meets Ice: Superhot And Supercold Remarkably Similar In The 'Fermion' World (w/ Video)

Fire Meets Ice: Superhot And Supercold Remarkably Similar In The 'Fermion' World (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 13

Trapping and cooling a microscopic clump of gas and then suddenly releasing it would normally result in the gas rapidly expanding outward in all directions, like a spherical bubble.


Geologist analyzes earliest shell-covered fossil animals

Geologist analyzes earliest shell-covered fossil animals

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

The fossil remains of some of the first animals with shells, ocean-dwelling creatures that measure a few centimeters in length and date to about 520 million years ago, provide a window on evolution at this ...


The filter is designed to be used in rural households

India's Tata launches low-cost water filter for rural poor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease.


Apple confirms purchase of music site Lala.com (AP)

Apple confirms purchase of music site Lala.com

Technology / Business

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Apple Inc. has purchased online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application.


Imeem launched in San Francisco in 2003 and became a popular online locale for streaming and sharing music for free

MySpace buys imeem music site for under $1 mln

Technology / Internet

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 ...


EMI joins Universal-backed music video site Vevo

Technology / Business

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a gala in New York.


AP source: Apple in talks to buy Lala.com (AP)

Apple in talks to buy Lala.com

Technology / Business

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Apple Inc. is in advanced talks to buy online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application.


A woman watches the trailer for the upcoming movie about Michael Jackson on a computer

Video spurs explosion of Internet traffic

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday.


Fossilised pregnant fish was one of the first animals to have sex

Fossilised pregnant fish was one of the first animals to have sex

Biology /

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a study published in Nature today by an international team includ ...