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Scientists making waves with wireless ocean monitoring

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The Great Barrier Reef and other sensitive environments could in future be managed with the help of a marine wireless network developed by University of Queensland (UQ)-led research.





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Birds 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field

Birds 'See' Earth's Magnetic Field

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 5 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

When birds migrate over long distances -- sometimes thousands of miles -- they usually end up in exactly the same place year after year. Such accurate feats of navigation, accomplished by millions of birds ...


Simple test could offer cheap solution to detecting landmines

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 5 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists have developed a simple, cheap, accurate test to find undetected landmines.


Study shows link between influenza virus and fever

Medicine & Health / Research

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One feature of the "new influenza" is a sudden rise in temperature. Up to now it was not exactly understood how this reaction occurs. Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have ...


Warmer means windier on world's biggest lake

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Rising water temperatures are kicking up more powerful winds on Lake Superior, with consequences for currents, biological cycles, pollution and more on the world's largest lake and its smaller brethren.


Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River

Salmon migration mystery explored on Idaho's Clearwater River

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Temperature differences and slow-moving water at the confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in Idaho might delay the migration of threatened juvenile salmon and allow them to grow larger ...


French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) team prepares to put in water the robot BOB

Underwater robot probes depths for Istanbul quake clues

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A state-of-the-art underwater robot called BOB may hold the key to protecting millions of people around Turkey's biggest city against a massive earthquake scientists say is all but inevitable.


Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...


Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...


AKROD Knee Device

Robotic Devices Providing Home-Care Rehabilitation (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of researchers, at Northeastern University, have developed several portable robotic devices to aid in the rehabilitation process of stroke victims. These devices are small enough for ...


Road trains may be coming soon to Europe

Road trains may be coming soon to Europe (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- Road trains linking vehicles together in a traveling convoy are planned for Europe. With only the lead vehicle being actively driven, the road trains would allow commuters to sleep, read a ...



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