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Einstein was right: Unique stellar system provides 'laboratory' for testing relativity

Einstein was right: Unique stellar system provides 'laboratory' for testing relativity

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (73) | comments 3

Researchers at McGill University's Department of Physics – along with colleagues from several countries – have confirmed a long-held prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, via observations ...





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Youths see all parental control negatively when there's a lot of it

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study has found that young people feel differently about two types of parental control, generally viewing a type of control that's thought to be better for their development more positively. However, when parents are ...


A line on string theory

A line on string theory

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (41) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Harvard theoretical physicist has discussed with scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland the possibility that they may discover a theorized "stau" particle, with a lifetime ...


A faraway planet intrigues: Exoplanet with extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy

A faraway planet intrigues: Exoplanet with extremely tilted orbit raises new interest in stellar astronomy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two teams of astronomers have found a planet outside the solar system that might be orbiting backwards compared to its star's rotation, a discovery that could shed light on how unique the ...


Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, ...


Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero

Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero

Technology / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...


EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun (AP)

EU objects to Oracle's takeover of Sun

Technology / Business

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Sun Microsystems Inc.'s planned $7.4 billion sale to Oracle Corp., escalating a battle over a deal that has already been cleared in the U.S.


What is the meaning of 'one'? Evolutionary biologists argue for new meaning of 'organismality'

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Rice University evolutionary biologists David Queller and Joan Strassmann argue in a new paper that high cooperation and low conflict between components, from the genetic level on up, give a living thing its "organismality," ...


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EBay settles lawsuit filed by Skype founders

Technology / Internet

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.


Dutch researchers develop technology for pain monitoring

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ten of thousands of patients suffer chronic pain as a result of operations, and this continues even after the wounds caused by the operation have healed. Researchers from the MIRA research institute - the University of Twente’s ...


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Nothing But Net: The Physics of Free-Throw Shooting

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw - a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the ...



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