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Bored to death? It's possible
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University College London in the U.K. have found that living a life of boredom can kill you.
Professor: We have a 'moral obligation' to seed universe with life
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Eventually, the day will come when life on Earth ends. Whether that’s tomorrow or five billion years from now, whether by nuclear war, climate change, or the Sun burning up its fuel, the last ...
Google developing a translator for smartphones
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is developing a translator for its Android smartphones that aims to almost instantly translate from one spoken language to another during phone calls.
Sony Launches Short-Range Wireless Technology (w/ Video)
Feb 08, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first compliant products, that will use Sony’s TransferJet technology, will start appearing in products as early as the spring of this year. Its design will enable file swapping, between ...
Freezing point of supercooled water varies with electric charge
Feb 08, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as water can be superheated and remain liquid above the boiling point if there is no nucleating surface (such as a surface defect or a speck of dust), it can also become supercooled and ...
Microsoft to patch 17-year-old bug
Feb 08, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft's February security update will include a patch for a bug that dates back to Windows NT 3.1, which was released in July 1993. The vulnerability has been present but undetected in ...
Physicist proposes method to teleport energy
Feb 05, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the same quantum principles that enable the teleportation of information, a new proposal shows how it may be possible to teleport energy. By exploiting the quantum energy fluctuations ...
High achievers more likely to be bipolar
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 05, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Greek philosopher Aristotle once said "there is no great genius without a mixture of madness," and now there is some scientific evidence that there is a link between mania and high IQ ...
Google may be gearing up for 'store view' feature
Feb 05, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is rumored to have been busy taking photos inside selected retail stores in New York and San Francisco apparently in preparation for adding a tentatively-named 'store view'ť feature ...
If you want to lose weight, find a mountain retreat
Feb 05, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found the secret to effortless weight loss: spend some time at high altitude. Even a week on a mountain retreat can produce weight loss in sedentary people eating as much as ...
Google Has More Than Android On Its Platform
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 05, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last several weeks, we've read a bit about how Google is getting restless just being the world’s largest search engine and a proud cloud computing parent. In fact, Googleland is growing ...
5 Sources of Alternative Energy You May Not Have Heard Of
Feb 04, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As fossil fuels increasingly fall out of favor, many are looking into alternative energy sources to help us power our lives with a smaller impact on the environment. You already know about ...
Unmanned U.S. frigates to stalk submarines (w/ Video)
Feb 04, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the U.S. the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is planning to introduce unmanned frigates for long missions shadowing diesel-electric submarines.
Prairie dogs may have the most complex language
Feb 04, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Prairie dogs may have a vocal communication system more complex than that of dolphins, whales and non-human primates, according to a new study.
Carbon Based Chips May One Day Replace Silicon Transistors
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 03, 2010 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM researchers are hopeful that, over the next decade, silicon-based transistors will be replaced by carbon-based transistors. IBM has already laid out the ground work for carbon-based transistors.
