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Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hawaii may be paradise for vacationers, but for geologists it has long been a puzzle. Plate tectonic theory readily explains the existence of volcanoes at boundaries where plates split apart ...





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Study Examines Racial 'Blind Spots' in Chicago Area Communities

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Racial residential segregation in the Chicago area may be perpetuated by a lack of knowledge of communities across racial lines, according to a new study led by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.


Spotting evidence of directed percolation

Spotting evidence of directed percolation

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population ...


Lose the fat: Targeting grease to curtail sewer overflows

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sewer overflows are a nasty business, posing dangers to human health and the environment. North Carolina State University is launching a new project with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that targets ...


Judge rejects AT&T's bid to pull Verizon ads

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by AT&T Inc. to force competitor Verizon Wireless to pull its "There's a Map for That" commercials.


Research: Baby's sleep position is major factor in 'flat-headedness'

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A baby's sleep position is the best predictor of a misshapen skull condition known as deformational plagiocephaly ? or the development of flat spots on an infant's head -- according to findings reported by ...


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Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.


No-entry zones for AIDS virus

No-entry zones for AIDS virus

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The AIDS virus inserts its genetic material into the genome of the infected cell. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have now shown for the first time that the virus almost entirely spares particular ...


First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser earlier today as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. ...


Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about ...


Web ad group launches privacy education campaign

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A group of leading Internet publishers and digital marketing services on Thursday launched an online campaign to educate consumers about how they are tracked and targeted for pitches on the Web.



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