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Europe stakes billion-dollar bet on new rocket

A pencil-slim rocket is scheduled to lift into space from South America on Monday, carrying a billion-dollar bet that Europe can grab a juicy slice of the market to place satellites in low orbit.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 11, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away

Take two Sandia National Laboratories engineers who are hunters, get them talking about the sport and it shouldn’t be surprising when the conversation leads to a patented design for a self-guided bullet ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

Curiosity rover will serve as terramechanics instrument in explortation of Martian soils

NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Neural balls and strikes: Where categories live in the brain

Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire must instantaneously categorize a fast-moving pitch as a ball or a strike. In new research from the University of Chicago, scientists have pinpointed an area ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

50 million year old cricket and katydid fossils hint at the origins of insect hearing

How did insects get their hearing? A new study of 50 million year-old cricket and katydid fossils — sporting some of the best preserved fossil insect ears described to date— help trace the evolution ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For children, some sarcastic comments can be lost in translation

(Medical Xpress) -- It turns out irony and sarcasm are completely lost on youth. Yeah, right.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Advertising goes to the dogs

Nestle Purina’s latest commercial for its Beneful dog food, aimed directly at canines by using high-frequency noises inaudible to humans, should serve to increase the bond owners feel with their pets, ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Aggressive piranhas bark to say buzz off

Thanks to Hollywood, piranhas have a bad reputation and it would be a brave scientist that chose to plunge their hand into a tank of them. But that didn't deter Sandie Millot, Pierre Vandewalle and Eric Parmentier from the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

White favoritism by Major League umps lowers minority pitcher performance, pay

When it comes to Major League Baseball's pitchers, the more strikes, the better. But what if white umpires call strikes more often for white pitchers than for minority pitchers?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Southern Rocky Mountain pikas holding their own, assessment says

American pikas, the chirpy, potato-sized denizens of rocky debris in mountain ranges and high plateaus in western North America, are holding their own in the Southern Rocky Mountains, says a new University ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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