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Amazon announces it’s ready to accept e-books in new KF8 format

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amazon has announced that it is now ready to allow publishers to submit e-books to its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) site in what it is calling Kindle Format 8 (KF8). Doing so will allow publishers ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Binary star system found by following gamma-ray signal

(PhysOrg.com) -- To find a binary star system, which is where two stars are in close proximity to one another, astronomers have traditionally relied on pure luck. They’d first start studying what would look like a single ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

How dogs can walk on ice without freezing their paws

Scientists in Japan have solved a long-standing veterinary mystery: how dogs can stand and walk for so long on snow and ice without apparent discomfort, and without freezing their paws.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (34) | comments 39 | with audio podcast report

Researchers conduct experimental implementation of quantum algorithm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at D-Wave Systems have carried out a calculation involving 84 qubits on an experimental quantum computer, giving some credence to the plausibility of true quantum computers being ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Evolutionary psychologists find macaques more likely influenced by friends than family

(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to better understand human relationships, researchers who study such things often turn to other primates for the simple reason that they are more accessible, being locked up in zoos ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Physicists develop nano-level sound detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a couple of decades now, physicists have known that if a very small laser beam is pointed at a microscopic particle, it could be held in place due to the very small electrical field that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Stockholm techies use water to charge mobile phones

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm has figured out how to power smartphones using a system that includes some water, a tray, a little round container, and an eyeglass case styled ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset heads for tablets, TVs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Qualcomm used the CES event in Las Vegas yesterday to showcase its Snapdragon S4 line of chips, expected to ship in devices later this year. A key highlight was the company’s demo of ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Physics team finds new constraints on how lumpy space-time can be

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robert Nemiroff and his colleagues at Michigan Technological University will be discussing new constraints on the so-called lumpiness of space-time at this year’s meeting of the American ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

Planetary professor shows what alien sunset really looks like

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the great things about science is how so many people are able to use their imagination to conjure ideas, concepts or in some cases actual images of things in their mind, and then to ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Axion sees future in lead-acid-carbon hybrid battery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Energy storage continues to be the number one question mark in discussions about the grid. We can gather enough energy from sun and wind systems but engineers still scratch their heads over ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

Austin lab team rolls out Kinect-controlled skateboard

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Austin, Texas, team has developed an electric skateboard that makes use of Microsoft’s Kinect and a Samsung tablet running Windows 8 to go places on a piece of transport dubbed The ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Research teams develop rolling microcapsules to repair micro-sized defects in surfaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine if instead of relying on special x-ray or electrical current testing technology to find really tiny cracks in the skin that covers an airplane, microcapsules filled with easily detected ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Telomere length in young zebra finches predicts lifespan

(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds, if not thousands of years scientists have been seeking clues to explain why we humans, and all other animals for that matter, age. But it’s been only recently that some ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Ford sets the stage for Fusion 2013 in Detroit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ford is to cars like Apple and Microsoft are to computers; the public knows they are being marketed to the hilt but that does not stem public curiosity year after year to see the newest models ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report