It's no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet -- astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of years. ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- A team of researchers from Harvard University have invented a way to keep any metal surface free of ice and frost. The treated surfaces quickly shed even tiny, incipient condensation droplets ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jun 11, 2012 4.8 / 5 (13) 0 |

University of Maryland archaeologists are uncovering a forgotten period of racial tension in Annapolis pitting Filipino immigrants against African Americans.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 11, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Recent years' warming in the Arctic has caused local changes in vegetation, reveals new research by biologists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and elsewhere published in the prestigious journals ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1

The sequencing of the human genome has provided a wealth of genetic information, yet the goal of understanding the function of every gene remains outstanding. New research from the University of Illinois published ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 11, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 1

Although it's long been suspected that human activity has greatly contributed to environmental stress, it's only recently that science has begun to show just how great a role that activity is playing.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Sixteenth-century European explorers probed the jungles and valleys of South America in search of El Dorado, the legendary lost city of gold, but came up empty-handed. Corporate political supporters may find ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Jun 11, 2012 not rated yet 5

Recreational fishing is a major contributor to the rapid decline of important salt marshes along Cape Cod because it strips top predators such as striped bass, blue crabs, and smooth dogfish out of the ecosystem, according ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 11, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 0

During the final stage of cell division, a short-lived contractile ring constricts the cellular membrane and eventually separates the dividing cell in two. Although this "molecular muscle's" composition, mainly ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

The colonisation of hulls by algae, barnacles, mussels and other organisms is a major problem for both pleasure boats and merchant tonnage. In a joint project, researchers at the University of Gothenburg and ...

Chemistry - Other

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

A new development from Siemens makes it possible for operators of electric arc furnaces to obtain electricity from hot exhaust gases. Around 20 percent of the electricity required to melt steel scrap could ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

Previously, gauges used to measure changes in water level in the Amazon were not on the same reference level. This meant water levels could not be directly compared, limiting the use of the gauges in research, especially ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Young and old residents of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan were advised to stay indoors on Monday after a thick haze blanketed the city of nine million people, official media said.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 11, 2012 5 / 5 (5) 4

(Phys.org) -- The famous physicist Niels Bohr first conceived of the notion of quantum jumps, or quantum leaps, in 1913. Bohr understood quantum jumps as objective events in which an atom emits or absorbs ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Jun 11, 2012 4.3 / 5 (23) 75 |

(Phys.org) -- A team of researchers has developed a new tool that can be used to profile the metagenome of large microbial communities such as those that live in the human gut. Using the new tool, researchers ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jun 11, 2012 not rated yet 0 |