News tagged with physical sciences


Obama vows return to US science prominence (Update)

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 15

President Barack Obama pledged Monday to return the United States to a "high water mark" of scientific achievement, announcing a goal to commit three percent of GDP to research and development.


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Largest virtual telescope for short wavelengths opened

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Astronomers have succeeded in combining three telescopes in Hawaii using advanced computer techniques. This virtual telescope, with a diameter of 782 metres, studies the formation of new stars and planets ...





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Quake prediction model developed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The third in a series of papers in the journal Nature completes the case for a new method of predicting earthquakes.


Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale

Loves Me, Loves Me Not: Researchers Discover New Method for Measuring Hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring how much — or how little - nanoscale interfaces love water.


Love hurts: Why emotional pain really affects us

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Have you ever felt overly upset by a social snubbing? Your genetics, not your friends, may be at fault.


Young adults who exercise get higher IQ

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Young adults who are fit have a higher IQ and are more likely to go on to university, reveals a major new study carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital.


Chubby hubby is common, but ethnicity matters

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity.


A mathematical model of a simple circuit in a chicken brain raises fundamental questions about our understanding of neural circu

Mathematical model of a simple circuit in a chicken brain raises fundamental questions

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Web site Neuroanthropology asks visitors to complete this quote, "One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is ...". In addition to the typical facetious remarks, such as "so ...


Good stress response enhances recovery from surgery, study shows

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The right kind of stress response in the operating room could lead to quicker recovery for patients after knee surgery, according to a new study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. The results could ...


Grant to help zoo visitors learn more about science with their cell phones

Technology / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Zoo visitors may soon use their cell phones to "Call the Wild" as part of a project led by University of Florida researchers to help the public learn more about the nature of science.


Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vibrations from the environments we live and work in could be much more widely harnessed as a clean source of electricity, due to cutting-edge UK research.


Sugary cola drinks linked for first time to higher risk of gestational diabetes

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's ...



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