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MIT takes aim at ‘phantom’ traffic jams

(PhysOrg.com) -- Countless hours are lost in traffic jams every year. Most frustrating of all are those jams with no apparent cause — no accident, no stalled vehicle, no lanes closed for construction.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4




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Ecologists record and study deep-sea fish noises

University of Massachusetts Amherst fish biologists have published one of the first studies of deep-sea fish sounds in more than 50 years, collected from the sea floor about 2,237 feet (682 meters) below the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Secrets of the 'Levitating' Slinky: Viral web videos trigger physicists to explore a striking phenomenon

While holiday shoppers search frantically for the Moshi Monsters, LeapPad Explorers, or Lalaloopsy Silly Hair dolls atop their children's wish lists, many physicists remain engrossed in the properties of a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Students will use futuristic technology to dive into the past

A new partnership between the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) and the Watermen's Museum in historic Yorktown Virginia will give local students a unique opportunity to dive into Colonial history ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The battle of the morphogens: How to get ahead in the nervous system

If you think today's political rhetoric is overheated, imagine what goes on inside a vertebrate embryo. There, two armies whose agendas are poles apart, engage in a battle with consequences much more dire ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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

Party atmosphere reigned in early shuttle landings

(AP) -- If the weather cooperates, Atlantis will close out the space shuttle era with wheels down in Florida. Shuttle homecomings didn't always end this way.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Can't ban violent video sales to kids, court says

(AP) -- States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people's First Amendment rights and leaving ...

Technology / Business

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 11

Sebastopol, California to get a 1Gbps Internet connection at $70 a month

(PhysOrg.com) -- The people of Sebastopol, California are in for a treat. Thanks to a collaboration between search giant Google and Sonic.net they will have the honor of being the first residential area in the United States ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Cassini celebrates 10 years since Jupiter encounter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, on Dec. 30, 2000, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter on its way to orbiting Saturn. The main purpose was to use the gravity of the largest planet ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Different origins discovered for medulloblastoma tumor subtypes

Investigators have demonstrated for the first time that the most common malignant childhood brain tumor, medulloblastoma, is actually several different diseases, each arising from distinct cells destined to become different ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal way in which possible earthquakes can be predicted

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who have been examining what happens in a "model earthquake" in their laboratory have discovered that basic assumptions about friction that have been accepted for hundreds ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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