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Adobe Systems posts drop in 2Q profit, sales

Technology / Business

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

(AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc., the company whose software powers Flash animation and PDF documents, posted a sharp drop in its fiscal second-quarter profit and sales Tuesday amid weaker demand in the economic downturn.


New visualization techniques yield star formation insights

New visualization techniques yield star formation insights

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 31, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 3

New computer visualization technology developed by the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing has helped astrophysicists understand that gravity plays a larger role than previously thought in deep space's ...





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For low-income families with special needs kids, where you live matters (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the United States, caring for a child with special health care needs usually means higher medical expenses for a family — particularly for low-income families, who spend a disproportionally large share of their income ...


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Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


Study shows US lags behind in transit safety programs for female riders

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris documents the gap between women's transit safety needs and programs in the U.S. that respond to them.


A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease

A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease (w/ Video)

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell.


NIST develops experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics

Technology / Software

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology do. NIST researchers ...


King crab family bigger than ever

King crab family bigger than ever

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sally Hall, a PhD student at the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has formally described four new species of king ...


Toy recall of 2007 hurt innocent companies, shows research

Other Sciences / Economics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The well-publicized toy recalls of 2007 took potentially harmful toys off the shelves and affected the companies that made them.


Researchers Identify Key Molecules in Photosynthesis

Researchers Identify Key Molecules in Photosynthesis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemistry professor Harry Frank led an international group of researchers that identified the molecules in algae which direct the organisms to convert sunlight into oxygen. The findings may ...


Arts and sciences join to develop greener, more efficient conferences and exhibits

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Santanu Majumdar spent his years as a graphic design graduate student developing a project that might sound counterintuitive for a student of fine arts - a software program made to simplify information gathering at conferences ...


NREL Breaks Down Walls for Biofuels

NREL Breaks Down Walls for Biofuels

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and ethanol producers are racing to come up with ways to make ethanol from cellulosic biomass that are cheaper and easier to ...



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