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Study of gecko feet leads to advances in the science of friction (w/Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it’s driving on icy roads, rock climbing, or getting a better grip on a bat, the science of friction and adhesion plays a role—large and small—in many human activities. In a new research paper published ...


Physicists see the cosmos in a coffee cup

Physicists see the cosmos in a coffee cup

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee with ...


Recent picture of art study professor and specialist of Italian master Caravaggio, Roberta Lapucci, restoring a painting

Caravaggio used photographic techniques: researcher

Technology / Other

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio used revolutionary optical instruments to "photograph" his models more than 200 years before the invention of the camera, according to a researcher in Florence.





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Tulane University surgeon pioneers 'scarless' thyroid surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

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

Tulane University School of Medicine surgeon Dr. Emad Kandil is one of the first in the country to perform a new form of endoscopic surgery that uses a small incision under the arm to remove all or a portion of the thyroid ...


Sony chief executive outlines turnaround plan (AP)

Sony chief executive outlines turnaround plan

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Sony said it aims to be profitable in gaming and flat-panel TVs by the fiscal year ending March 2011, pushing 3-D technology as a way to showcase its strength in entertainment and surface from deep ...


Young people browse the Internet in a cybercafe in Abidjan

Cyber laws must punish individuals not society: specialist

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.


New research provides insights into potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new paper just published in Global Change Biology examines the potential of a REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) mechanism to provoke ecological damage and/or promote ecological cobenefits. Such a ...


Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs (AP)

Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.


New brain findings on dyslexic children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, ...


Frequent flower buyers seek product variety

Biology / Other

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

Florists and other retailers who sell flowers and plants can now add another tool to their marketing kit. A recent study of "consumption values" may help them understand what influences consumers' choices in regard to floral ...


Sun or shade: Pecan leaves' photosynthetic light response evaluated

Sun or shade: Pecan leaves' photosynthetic light response evaluated

Biology / Ecology

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

Pecan, the most valuable nut tree native to North America, is native from northern Illinois and southeastern Iowa to the Gulf Coast of the United States, where it grows abundantly along the Mississippi River, ...


Say yes to a clinical trial; it may be good for your health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patients with chronic heart failure who agree to take part in clinical trials have a better prognosis than those who do not, according to a study reported in the November European Journal of Heart Failure.(1) The finding, say th ...


Brazilian Alini dos Santos Silva, 28, points at the map of the three "favelas" she and a team of neighbours designed

Rio youth use GPS phones to put favelas on map

Technology / Internet

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rio's favelas are home to a third of the city's population, but are almost invisible on maps -- a situation five young women are trying to change with the help of GPS and the Internet.



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