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Some people like company.
Read More »Are We Doomed to Wage Wars Over Water?
Water, water, everywhere. But will we always have enough to drink? Wash away our waste?
Read More »Are We Doomed to Wage Wars Over Water?
Water, water, everywhere.
Read More »How to Squash Customer Complaints
Before you rush to defend yourself or fight back remember to put yourself in your customer's shoes. Customer complaints are inevitable. If you run a business that sells to the public no matter how great your goods or services are the old adage will eventually be proven true: You cannot please 100% of the people 100% of the time
Read More »Physicists develop theoretical framework for interpreting results of subatomic-particle collisions
Accelerating subatomic particles to almost the speed of light and then crashing them together reveals much about the nature of the matter.
Read More »EPA Easing Air Quality Rule for Power Plants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to ease a new air pollution rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The EPA plans to propose as early as this week allowing certain states and companies to emit more pollutants than it previously permitted, the report said.
Read More »Could primordial black holes be dark matter?
(PhysOrg.com) -- We know that about 25% of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but we dont know what it is, Michael Kesden tells PhysOrg.com. There are a number of different theories about what dark matter could be, but we think one alternative might be very small primordial black holes.
Read More »"The Ledge" Director Matthew Chapman Calls On Atheists; Is He Preaching To The Choir?
The thriller, out today, borrows a page from Bible-toting film supporters to market a movie with a godless message. When it comes to promoting his new thriller to an atheist audience, writer/director Matthew Chapman isn’t waiting on a miracle.
Read More »A step closer to solving one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Where did all the matter in the universe come from? This is one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics and exciting results released on 15 June 2011 from the international T2K neutrino experiment in Japan could be an important step towards resolving this puzzle.
Read More »Free Worlds: Billions of Extra-Stellar Planetary Bodies May Be Adrift in the Galaxy
Pluto, please step aside.
Read More »A Galactic Growth Spurt [Video]
Galaxies litter the cosmos by the hundreds of billions.
Read More »Apple: We Are "Not Tracking The Location Of Your iPhone" [Updated]
Apple's just spoken up publicly on the matter of iPhones storing location data. "Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone.
Read More »Doubly special relativity
General relativity, Einsteins theory of gravity, gives us a useful basis for mathematically modeling the large scale universe while quantum theory gives us a useful basis for modeling sub-atomic particle physics and the likely small-scale, high-energy-density physics of the early universe nanoseconds after the Big Bang which general relativity just models as a singularity and has nothing else to say on the matter.
Read More »Is diet drug Contrave a game changer?
A weight-loss drug called Contrave may be approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the coming weeks if the agency follows the advice of one of its panels, which recently weighed in on the matter.
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