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Ig Nobel Prize

The 2009 Ig Nobel prizewinners

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Ig Nobels are a highlight of the scientific calendar and award research that makes people laugh as well as think. The awards were presented last week at Harvard University in the U.S, ...


MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)

MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taking pictures of the earth from space, we assume that a great deal of money has to be spent on high-tech equipment and complex vehicles to get the camera up there. But, ...


Dinosaur eggs

Hundreds of dinosaur nests found in India

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists have discovered hundreds of fossilized nests each containing clutches of eight dinosaur eggs. The eggs were located in sand banks in Tamil Nadu in Southern India.


The Audi e-tron concept car

The Audi e-tron concept electric car

Technology / Energy

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Audi has unveiled its new electric car concept, the Audi e-tron at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany.


Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera

Polaroid PoGo brings instant printing to the digital age

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Polaroid, founded in 1937 by American physicist Edwin H. Land, invented instant photographic printing. Its first instant film camera went on sale in November 1948, but in February 2008 the ...


Girardinus falcatus

Symmetrical brains can be an advantage

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many studies have found widespread asymmetry in the brains of different species, including humans, and most have assumed asymmetry is advantageous. A new paper, published in the Proceedings of ...


soccer

Study: Why the best soccer teams don't always win

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (11) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study, published in the October edition of the Journal of Applied Statistics, looked at soccer as being an experiment to determine which of two teams is superior, but their analys ...


Holographic Disk

GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (27) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.


Dell's Latitude Z introduces wireless charging

Dell's Latitude Z introduces wireless charging (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dell has introduced its new ultra-thin Latitude Z laptop with the world's first wireless laptop battery charger.


CIA's 'Enhanced Interrogation' Techniques Were Counterproductive

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 30

(PhysOrg.com) -- The author of a new report suggests the belief that harsh interrogation and torture techniques are effective is a form of folk neuroscience that is not supported by scientific evidence, and does not fit with ...


Antidepressant

Link Between Antidepressants and Birth Defect

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Denmark have studied almost half a million Danish children and found a slightly higher rate of septal heart abnormalities in babies whose mothers took an SSRI antidepressant ...


Buckeye Bullet 2

300 mph: New Land Speed Record for a Hydrogen Powered Vehicle

Technology / Energy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the complaints that many have with regard to vehicles powered by alternative energy is the fact that they don't really have a lot of speed. However, this does not necessarily have to ...


Time Lens

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...


When a Twin is not a Twin

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A woman in Fort Worth, Arkansas is carrying two babies that may not be twins, and which may have been conceived two and a half weeks apart. The two babies may be the result of superfetation, a rare phenomenon ...


Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France

Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France

Technology / Other

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- A law has been proposed in France that would see digitally enhanced images carry a warning to viewers that the image has been retouched to change the physical appearance of a person. The proposed ...