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Life got bigger in two, million-fold leaps, scientists say

Dec 22, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (13) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Extremes are exciting. Does anyone really think dinosaurs would capture our imagination the way they do if they hadn't been so huge? You don't see natural history museums vying for fossil skeletons ...

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Scientists study hummingbirds flight to develop self-propelled surveillance devices

Technology / Engineering

Dec 16, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 1

The secret to the flight of the hummingbird and other tiny birds and insects lies in the looping, swirling flow of air, called a vortex, that their flapping wings create.

Hypoxia increases as climate warms

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 3

A new study of Pacific Ocean sediments off the coast of Chile has found that offshore waters experienced systematic oxygen depletion during the rapid warming of the Antarctic following the last "glacial maximum" period 20,000 ...

Gift Guide: High-tech happiness for $100 or less

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

Dec 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- No one's going to blame you for keeping holiday gifts minimal this year. But if you want to round out your handmade cards, scarves, pickles and jam with a gadget or gizmo, here are a handful of our ...

Honda's 'Personal-Neo Urban Transport' Concept

Technology / Engineering

Dec 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The Honda Personal-Neo Urban Transport (P-NUT) design study model demonstrates a futuristic concept for an ultra-compact and sophisticated city coupe, American Honda Motor announced at the 2009 Los Angeles ...

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

Dec 03, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (31) | 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...

Why we outlive our ape ancestors

Medicine & Health / Research

Dec 02, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 0

In spite of their genetic similarity to humans, chimpanzees and great apes have maximum lifespans that rarely exceed 50 years. The difference, explains USC Davis School of Gerontology Professor Caleb Finch, is that as humans ...

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

Nov 22, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (15) | 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...

Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Technology / Energy

Nov 19, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (14) | 6

The biggest chemical battery in the United States is located near Interstate 90 in the small town of Luverne, Minn. The 80 ton device -- the size of two tractor-trailers stacked on top of each other -- stores ...

Goddard Team Develops New Carriers for ISS

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

In a partnership that exemplifies the One NASA theme, Goddard Space Flight Center engineers teamed up with the External Payloads Group at Johnson Space Center and the ISS Payload Ground Processing support ...