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Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 6

The best map of wind speeds on Jupiter ever produced proves that the massive weather system known as the Great Red Spot has shrunken over the past dozen years.


Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter

Three Red Spots Mix it Up on Jupiter

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images offers an unprecedented view of a planetary game of Pac-Man among three red spots clustered together in Jupiter's atmosphere.





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Inventing language

Inventing language

Technology / Engineering

created 8 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award — frequently ...


A motley collection of boneworms

A motley collection of boneworms (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like a classic horror story -- eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such worms do exist ...


Drugs to treat anemia in cancer patients linked to thromboembolism

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 10 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Medications frequently given to cancer patients to reduce their risk of anemia are associated with an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, according to new research led by Dawn Hershman, M.D, M.S., ...


The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 11 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America followed by a more intense outburst ...


New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida

New NASA 3-D Video Shows Thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Ida (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite has the ability to provide data that can be made into three-dimensional images. Visualizers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...


Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

Technology / Telecom

created 13 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.


Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has combined DNA's talent ...


Epson's new 4K panel for 3LCD projectors

Epson's new 4K panel for 3LCD projectors

Technology / Hi Tech

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seiko Epson Corporation has announced the world's first 4K panel for 3LCD (liquid crystal display) projectors. The panel will enable the projectors to produce a bright image of 4096 x 2160 ...


Scanning invisible damage of PTSD, brain blasts

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Engineers image nanostructure of a solid acid catalyst and boost its catalytic activity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities.



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