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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) building in Washington

FTC warns of explicit content in virtual worlds

Technology / Internet

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The US consumer protection agency warned parents Thursday that children can easily bypass age requirements in virtual worlds and access violent or sexually explicit content.


Astronomers find super-Earth using amateur, off-the-shelf technology

Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based ...


Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system ...


'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology

'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks ...


Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'

Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'

Technology / Energy

created 23 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy," in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their ...


City Tech physicist thinks small and big with CERN Large Hadron Collider research

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New York City College of Technology Physics Professor Giovanni Ossola thinks both small and big. He is currently developing a new tool that will lead to more precise computations involving the actions of particles (the smallest ...


Math goes viral: Researchers make math and science real for high-school students

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

At least a dozen Alberta high-school calculus classrooms were exposed to the West Nile virus recently.


Pathological gambling may be successfully treated with medications for substance addiction

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pathological gambling can be successfully treated with medications that decrease urges and increase inhibitions, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP). Researchers ...


The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

The 'sci' behind the 'fi'

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

As the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise boldly went to explore new worlds week after week on Star Trek, they used a host of futuristic technologies — including tricorders, holodecks, teleportation systems ...


Jules Verne, desperado?

Jules Verne, desperado?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jules Verne (1828-1905) is often remembered as a 19th-century founder of science fiction, whose enthusiasm for invention fills his books — from the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon ...



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