Plants are critical in supporting life on Earth, and with help from an experiment that flew onboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission, they also could transform living in space.
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2011
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On November 14, President Obama signed an Appropriations bill that solidified NASA’s budget for fiscal year 2012. The space agency will get $17.8 billion. That’s $648 million less than last year’s funding and ...
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2011
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New WWF camera traps have captured the images of two rare snow leopards in Russia. The photographs are the first ever taken of snow leopards in Russia's Altai mountains. WWF camera traps last month also captured ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2011
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A ground breaking intelligent digital microscope developed at Massey University looks set to revolutionize climate research.
General Physics
Dec 1, 2011
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It is possible to know a tree from its fruit, but is it possible to know a prey from its predator? The answer is YES with Antarctic krill and Antarctic fur seals. Scientists of the University of Science and Technology ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2011
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Sharp Corporation has developed a 12.1-Megapixel, 1/3.2-inch CMOS camera module with optical image stabilization that features the industry’s thinnest profile (5.47 mm in height). The new RJ63YC100 is intended for use ...
Hardware
Dec 1, 2011
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Dr. Culum Brown, who recently made headlines publishing the first photographic evidence of a tusk fish using tools to smash open shells says, “There is an increasing body of evidence that suggests that fish have been ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...
A group of researchers working out of Kyoto University in Japan have successfully transformed a normal crab into one that is transparent. As they describe in their paper published in the British Royal Society of Chemistry ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the idea of harvesting ambient energy from the environment and using it to generate electricity is alluring, most of the technology so far is capable of generating only very small amounts of power ...
