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Engineering images bring life to submerged city

(PhysOrg.com) -- Photo-realistic 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece have earned a team from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies ...

Technology / Engineering

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Unlike Patriots, NFL slow to embrace 'Moneyball'

(AP) -- It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onside kicks. Running backs don't matter much.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Football team success throws fall grades of non-athletic college males for a loss

(PhysOrg.com) -- College football bowl season is in prime time, and a new report card is in: Male grades drop relative to female grades when their college football team performs well during the regular season.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

TUM robots 'Kinect' to sandwiches and popcorn

(PhysOrg.com) -- A robotics team from the Technical University of Munich are now able to show an audience how their cuisine robots James and Rosie have graduated from a previously famous repertoire of sausages ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Mark Zuckerberg says Steve Jobs advised him on Facebook

Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was moved that Apple's Steve Jobs admired him for not "selling out."

Technology / Internet

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

News Corp. net profit dips on British charges

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. posted a slight decline in quarterly net profit on Wednesday, partly due to one-time charges stemming from the phone-hacking scandal in Britain.

Technology / Business

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Is that a robot in your suitcase?

A flying robot as small as a dinner plate that can zoom to hard-to-reach places and a fleet of eco-friendly robotic farm-hands are just two of the exciting projects the robotics team at the Queensland University ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Lead poisoning in 2,000 children in north Nigeria

Illegal gold mining has left at least 2,000 children with lead poisoning in several northern Nigerian villages, where 400 children have already died from contamination, an official said Friday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese Team Tokai wins the 3,021 km 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese Tokai University Solar Car Team has won the Veolia World Solar Challenge, a 3,021 kilometer race between tiny cars relying on mostly solar power. Running between Darwin, a remote ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 32 | with audio podcast report

Countdown: America's No. 1 solar car ready to race the world

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a cutting-edge solar car, an advanced strategy and an intrepid 16-student race crew, the University of Michigan's national champion solar car team is ready for the upcoming World Solar ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hiring foreign talent has a positive impact on the national workforce

Spanish researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid are participating in a study that has determined that when high quality players from foreign countries are drafted to play on sports teams within a determined ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chilean car shines in solar auto competition

Latin America's first big solar car competition has a winner: a Chilean entry named Intikalpa sped to success in the Atacama Solar Challenge.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Statistical analysis debunks the old adage 'Pitching is 75 percent of the game'

Baseball legend Connie Mack famously said pitching is 75 percent of the game. He was wrong -- a new analysis by a University of Delaware professor finds it's just 25 percent.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New film adapts baseball strategy book for the big screen

The new movie "Moneyball" stars Brad Pitt as the general manager of a Major League Baseball team who is compelled to find a new way to put together a winning team because of his shoestring budget.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

15-minute door-to-balloon time may be a record for a Chicago hospital

When 45-year-old Bobbie Jeske arrived at Loyola's ER with a massive, life-threatening heart attack, it took Dr. Fred Leya just 15 minutes to perform an emergency balloon angioplasty.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

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