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Amazing skin gives sharks a push

Shark skin has long been known to improve the fish's swimming performance by reducing drag, but now George Lauder and Johannes Oeffner from Harvard University show that in addition, the skin generates thrust, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

IBEX spacecraft measures 'alien' particles from outside solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, an international team of researchers has measured neutral "alien" particles entering our solar system from interstellar ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Designing wildlife corridors in the digital age

Development is squeezing animals into smaller pockets of land, and without sufficient planning and protection, individual animal populations could find themselves increasingly isolated.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Discovering Autism: Services go to those who fight hardest

From the day her son was diagnosed with autism nine years ago, Stacie Funk has made it her full-time job to find him the best possible help. Hiring lawyers and experts to press her case, she established herself as a mother ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Landsat satellites track Yellowstone's underground heat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a vast, ancient, and still active volcano. Heat pours off its underground magma chamber, and is the fuel for Yellowstone's famous features -- more ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mountains and buried ice on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pluto's hidden ocean

When NASA's New Horizons cruises by Pluto in 2015, the images it captures could help astronomers determine if an ocean is hiding under the frigid surface, opening the door to new possibilities for liquid water ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Putting the squeeze on batteries (w/ video)

People depend on lithium-ion batteries every day to power cellphones, laptops and other electronic devices, and perhaps one day to run cars. This video shows how Craig Arnold, an associate professor of mechanical ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Paralyzed man uses mind-powered robot arm to touch

Giving a high-five. Rubbing his girlfriend's hand. Such ordinary acts - but a milestone for a paralyzed man.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Materials scientists develop topological insulator with a switch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Stanford and SLAC have found a potential way to harness the amazing properties of topological insulators – materials that conduct electricity only along their surfaces – ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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