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'Look Mom No Electricity': Transmitting Information with Chemistry

'Look Mom No Electricity': Transmitting Information with Chemistry

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- While information technology is generally thought to require electrons or photons for transmitting information, scientists have recently demonstrated a third method of transmission: chemical ...


Twitter now wants to know "What's happening?"

"What's happening?" Twitter wants to know

Technology / Internet

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

Twitter used to ask "What are you doing?" No longer. The micro-blogging service now wants to know "What's happening?"


Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils

Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese scientists today reveal the discovery of five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils which are significantly older than any previously reported. The new finds are indisputably older ...


New High Frequency Amplifier Harnesses Millimeter Waves in Silicon for Fast Wireless

New High Frequency Amplifier Harnesses Millimeter Waves in Silicon for Fast Wireless

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier invented at the University of California, San Diego and ...


Growing online sales could lower prices, but also trim choices

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Shoppers could see lower prices but less variety to choose from as more manufacturers sell directly to consumers through the Internet, according to new research led by a University of Illinois business professor.


Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth engineering professor and entrepreneur Victor Petrenko—along with his colleagues at Dartmouth and at Ice Engineering LLC in Lebanon, N.H.—have invented a way to cheaply and effectively ...


Why C is not G: How we identify letters

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (27) | comments 5

The next time you are reading a book, or even as you read this article, consider the words that you are seeing. How do you recognize these words? Substantial research has shown that while reading, we recognize words by their ...


Underground lines that bypass monuments

Underground lines that bypass monuments

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of mathematicians from the Engineering and Architecture Schools of the University of Seville has created a method to design underground lines whereby a city's historical buildings are unaffected. The ...


ASUS Launches Skype Certified Standalone Touchscreen Videophone

ASUS Launches Skype Certified Standalone Touchscreen Videophone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

ASUS today launched a Skype Certified touchscreen videophone dedicated to unlimited video calling over the Internet -- the ASUS Videophone Touch AiGuru SV1T.


An official at Taiwan's central weather bureau points to a chart showing seismic activity

Asia-Pacific quakes herald a disaster? Experts say no

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Powerful earthquakes that have jolted Asia recently do not presage a disaster, although it is only a matter of time before the next catastrophe befalls the quake-prone region, seismologists say.


Slowly slip-sliding faults don't cause earthquakes

Slowly Slip-Sliding Faults Don't Cause Earthquakes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some slow-moving faults may help protect some regions of Italy and other parts of the world against destructive earthquakes, suggests new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.


THEMIS satellite tracks electrical tornadoes in space

THEMIS satellite tracks electrical tornadoes in space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to "space tornadoes," which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations ...


A healthy color: Testing for gum disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Temple University Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry found that a color-changing oral strip is as effective in detecting periodontal disease as traditional methods, and is easier and less costly to administer.


Slow Down -- Those Lines On The Road Are Longer Than You Think

Slow Down -- Those Lines On The Road Are Longer Than You Think

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Take a guess -- how long are the dashed lines that are painted down the middle of a road? If you're like most people, you answered, "Two feet."


Homebody queen ants help preserve family ties in large populations

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ant and bee colonies have long fascinated biologists because of their hierarchical social structure and the apparently altruistic behaviour of female workers in rearing the queen's young rather than reproducing themselves. ...