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Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby

Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's ...


New Data Support Use Of Instant Run-Off Voting

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created 14 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New data collected as part of a North Carolina State University study during the 2009 municipal election in Hendersonville, N.C., show that voters prefer instant run-off voting (IRV) to traditional voting ...


Poll finds sexting common among young people (AP)

Poll finds sexting common among young people

Technology / Other

created 15 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Think your kid is not "sexting"? Think again. Sexting - sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online - is fairly commonplace among young people, despite sometimes grim ...


Fish with attitude: Some like it hot

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 18 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coral reef fish can undergo a personality change in warmer water, according to an intriguing new study suggesting that climate change may make some species more aggressive.


Digital avalanche rescue dog

Technology / Engineering

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel geolocation system makes use of signals from Galileo, the future European satellite navigation system, to locate avalanche victims carrying an avalanche transceiver or a cellphone, to the precision ...


Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...


Review: Two new 3-D laptops still feel shallow (AP)

Review: Two new 3-D laptops still feel shallow

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- In its search for another technology to excite us, the consumer electronics industry is reaching deep - into the third dimension. The big push for 3-D TV won't happen until next year, but already ...


Flight of fancy

Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge

Technology / Engineering

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 1

In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...



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