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Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV (AP)

Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV

Technology / Telecom

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 8

(AP) -- For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer.


A man passes through a high-tech explosive-detection machine at John F. Kennedy airport in New York

After foiled US plane attack, scanners revisited

Technology / Other

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

As US lawmakers demand to know how a would-be attacker smuggled explosives aboard a plane on Christmas Day, the use of body scanners at airport security points is likely to be revisited.


One step closer to closure: Neuroscientists discovery key to spinal cord defects

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Spinal cord disorders like spina bifida arise during early development when future spinal cord cells growing in a flat layer fail to roll up into a tube. In the Dec. 6 issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers from the Jo ...


Final launch of Ariane 5 GS completes busy year

Final launch of Ariane 5 GS completes busy year

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, an Ariane 5 GS launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar ...


Light-Driven Nanorod Could Roll on Water

Light-Driven Nanorod Could Roll on Water

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 1 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study, researchers have examined the possibility of rolling a nanorod on the surface of water. On the macroscale, perhaps the closest analogy might be the sport of logrolling, ...


Water droplets shape graphene nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desired shapes.


The Medical Minute: New toy safety standards bring parents confidence

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The holiday season is here and for many kids that means one thing: toys. About half of all toy purchases in the United States occur between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas.


The world's biggest car-maker Toyota Motor has said it plans to begin commercial sales of its first plug-in hybrid car

Toyota aims to roll out plug-in Prius in two years

Technology / Energy

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Toyota Motor said Monday that it plans to begin commercial sales of its first plug-in hybrid vehicle in about two years, aiming to meet growing demand for fuel-efficient cars.


Solar power coming to a store near you (AP)

Solar power coming to a store near you

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (31) | comments 28

(AP) -- Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.


Testosterone does not induce aggression

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 11

New scientific evidence refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects ...



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