By Eric Hand of Nature magazine It took years of fierce debate to winnow the dozens of potential landing sites for NASA's Mars Curiosity rover down to just one. [More]
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Feed SubscriptionSkype Video Chat Arrives for Windows Smart Phones
Nine months ago, Microsoft announced an $8.5-billion bid to buy Skype , the provider of voice-over-Internet Protocol software and services. The move promised to add an important video chat feature to help handsets running the Windows Phone operating system better compete with FaceTime on the iPhone and Android's Google Talk feature
Read More »Large, Dangerous Tornado Outbreak Forecast for Friday
Tornadoes are forecast to swarm Friday through a very large and populated area of the nation, stretching from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and other states.
Read More »Structured Unlearning: Marijuana May Impair Memory via the Brain’s Non-Firing Cells
In a 2006, season 2 episode of The Office entitled "Drug Testing," Dwight Schrute interrogates his fellow employees about the partially smoked joint he found in the parking lot.
Read More »You Have a Hive Mind
Every decision you make is essentially a committee act.
Read More »Warp drives may come with a killer downside
Planning a little space travel to see some friends on Kepler 22b? Thinking of trying out your newly-installed FTL3000 Alcubierre Warp Drive to get you there in no time? Better not make it a surprise visit your arrival may end up disintegrating anyone there when you show up.
Read More »MegaGrass Discovered in Mediterranean Marine Meadows
Music can change (the way we see) the world
Pick Wisely When I was fourteen years old, I broke up with my first love.
Read More »Rock Solid? How Particles Affect Porosity
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Read More »What Bugged the Dinosaurs?
“ Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! [More]
Read More »A Song like Adele’s
Adele’s song Someone Like You has won both a Grammy and lots of lively speculation as to why people feel moved to tears when they hear it. The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article that referenced a study by John Sloboda that found people experienced emotional reactions to music when it contained appoggiaturas, a musical device whose definition seems to be as hotly debated as the science and rationale behind the article itself.
Read More »Paper May Be the Unkindest Cut
It is, of course, the most agonizing injury known. The thought of it makes the strong tremble and the weak pass out
Read More »Coal Port Growth Threatens Barrier Reef: Greenpeace
PERTH (Reuters) - Australia's rapid expansion of coal ports in the next decade will threaten the Great Barrier Reef as increased ship traffic, port infrastructure and dredging put pressure on the world's largest coral reef, Greenpeace said on Thursday. Coal is one of Australia's top export earners, and the Great Barrier Reef sits off the coast of the eastern state of Queensland, the country's largest coal-producer.
Read More »An electrical switch for magnetic current
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new mechanism will make it possible to switch data storage in the future.
Read More »Fermilab results add to confidence in explaining less antimatter amounts
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Standard Model of Physics suggests that shortly after the Big Bang there should have been the same amount of antimatter in existence as there was matter. As time passed, both should have decayed roughly equally, leaving roughly the same amounts of each today.
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