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O2 accidentally exposes customers' phone numbers

An untold number of U.K. residents may have unwittingly broadcast their numbers to sites across the Web while browsing the Internet with their cellphones during the past two weeks.

Technology / Business

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

UK's O2 apologizes for smart phone service trouble

(AP) -- The head of mobile phone operator O2 has apologized to customers in the British capital who were unable to make calls after the group's network was swamped by people using smart phones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

Technology / Business

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers First to 'See' Reactive Oxygen Species in Vital Enzyme

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using two simultaneous light-based probing techniques at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, a team of researchers has illuminated important details about ...

Chemistry /

created Jan 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2




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Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures

Using computer simulations, a Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Researchers figure out how to outperform nature's photosynthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) last week published a paper titled "Solar hydrogen-producing bionanodevice outperforms natural photosynthesis." The authors are Carolyn E. Lubne ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 27 | with audio podcast weblog

Researchers show how iron activates oxygen in living things

Oxygen performs many key functions in the body’s internal chemistry, but the life-sustaining molecule can’t do its job alone. Now, SLAC researchers and their collaborators are learning more about ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Micro-cavity arrays: Lighting the way to the future

It was not too long ago that basic science lectures began with the three forms of matter: gases, liquids and solids—and somewhere along the line plasmas were occasionally added to the list. But to be ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Poisonous oceans delayed animal evolution

Animals require oxygen, but oxygenated environments were rare on early Earth. New research from University of Southern Denmark shows that poisonous sulfide existed in the oceans 750 million years ago making ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

I'd love to smash the Ritz...

The riots weren’t funny. Let’s get that straight right from the start. But for those who tuned in on YouTube, they did have some comic moments. In Tottenham, on the opening night, a group of hoodies ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Seeing the world of nanotechnology from a single-molecule perspective

Observing the structure of collapsing unstable atomic nuclei using electrons is an experimental goal that has not been achieved anywhere in the world. Masanori Wakasugi, director of the Instrumentation Development ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breast cancer tumor suppressor gene silenced by low O2

Low oxygen can silence the BRCA1 tumor suppressor gene and contribute to the progression of cancer, according to a paper in the August 2011 issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. Silencing this particular gene i ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breathing new life into Earth: New research shows evidence of early oxygen on our planet

Today, oxygen takes up a hefty portion of Earth's atmosphere: Life-sustaining O2 molecules make up 21 percent of the air we breathe. However, very early in Earth's history, O2 was a rare — if not complet ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hydrogen peroxide found in space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Molecules of hydrogen peroxide have been found for the first time in interstellar space. The discovery gives clues about the chemical link between two molecules critical for life: water and ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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