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Scientists discover minimum mass for galaxies

Scientists discover minimum mass for galaxies

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- By analyzing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe – 10 million times the ...





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Replicating Climate Change to Forecast its Effects

Replicating Climate Change to Forecast its Effects

Space & Earth / Environment

created 8 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are replicating the effects of climate change to see what the future holds for soybeans, wheat and the soils where they grow.


Studying how black holes grow

Studying how black holes grow

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...


YouTube music label means all artists are with the bandwidth

Technology / Internet

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Craig Benzine had weathered almost 10 years with his band, Chicago-based indie rockers Driftless Pony Club -- self-releasing two albums along the way -- with no luck.


Smart phones are making Wi-Fi hotspots hot again

Technology / Telecom

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Lisa Helminiak, who uses her iPhone as a computer as much as to talk, has declared her independence from the slow cell phone network. Instead of using AT&T's network, she's using her phone's Wi-Fi capability to connect to ...


Microsoft, Google in battle to win over students

Technology / Business

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As they plunged into a project on ancient Egypt this fall, Jay Martino's Cupertino (Calif.) Middle School students probably didn't realize they were on the front lines of a high stakes battle between Google and Microsoft.


Engineers develop machine that visually inspects and sorts strawberry plants

Technology / Engineering

created 17 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) have developed a plant-sorting machine that uses computer vision and machine learning to inspect and grade harvested strawberry plants ...


Lung cancer and melanoma laid bare: First comprehensive analysis of two cancer genomes

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Research teams led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announce the first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes. All cancers are caused by mutations in the DNA of cancer cells which are acquired during a person's lifetime. ...


Astronomers find super-Earth using amateur, off-the-shelf technology

Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based ...


Argonne scientists use bacteria to power simple machines (w/ Video)

Argonne scientists use bacteria to power simple machines (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, Evanston, have discovered that common bacteria can turn microgears when suspended in ...


Giant Planet Set for a Cataclysmic Show

Giant Planet Set for a Cataclysmic Show

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Chinese astronomers have discovered a giant planet close to the exotic binary star system QS Virginis. Although dormant now, in the future the two stars will one day erupt in a violent ...



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