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Supermarket robot to help the elderly

Supermarket robot to help the elderly (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robovie-II, a retail-assistant robot designed to help elderly and disabled people shop in supermarkets, is being tested in Kyoto, in Japan.


How do we understand written language?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

How do we know that certain combinations of letters have certain meanings? Reading and spelling are complex processes, involving several different areas of the brain, but researchers from Johns Hopkins University in the ...


New pictures reveal rich Antarctic marine life in area of rapid climate change

New pictures reveal rich Antarctic marine life in area of rapid climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New photographs of ice fish, octopus, sea pigs, giant sea spiders, rare rays and beautiful basket stars that live in Antarctica’s continental shelf seas are revealed this week by the British ...


Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Fault weaknesses, the center cannot hold for some geologic faults

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that "should not" slip are weaker ...


Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, ...


Laurence made landfall in Western Australia

Laurence made landfall in Western Australia

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tropical Cyclone Laurence made landfall in Northwestern Australia this morning (Eastern Time) December 15, 2009. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Laurence just before the center of the storm ...


New Intel products to be launched in January

Next-generation Intel products to be launched in January; Include first 32-nm Core i3, i5 processors

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has announced it will launch over two dozen new products next month, including new processors, chipsets, and a number of wireless components.


Nissan Leaf

Electric cars rolling out

Technology / Energy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electric vehicles are far from new, but we are still a long way from electric cars being the norm. Now two new electric cars may bring that goal a step closer.


DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy

DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 7

The DNA of a 1st century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy. Details of the research will be published December 16 in the ...


Exploring the Stone Age pantry

Exploring the Stone Age pantry

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to a University of Calgary archaeologist who has found the oldest example ...



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