15/11/2010

At odds in Europe over differing visions of multiculturism

The government of Germany has announced that it will place more stringent demands on all immigrants in an effort to better integrate them into society. Since then, a growing debate about multiculturalism has brought to light ...

Explained: Currency wars

This month’s G-20 meeting of industrialized countries was rife with talk of potential "currency wars," in which states try to devalue their currencies to help their economies. While a central tension is the United States’ ...

3 Questions: John Hansman on the Qantas A380 engine blowout

Last week, a Qantas Airbus 380 superjumbo jetliner made an emergency landing in Singapore following the mid-flight explosion of one of its engines that is manufactured by Rolls-Royce. All flights of Qantas’s A380 aircraft, ...

New standard proposed for supercomputing

A new supercomputer rating system will be released by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories at the Supercomputing Conference 2010 in New Orleans on Nov. 17.

A Herd's Eye View: How cattle view danger

(PhysOrg.com) -- Terms like "giving the evil eye" and "right hand man" have been commonplace since the ancient Greeks realised that humans perceive their world very differently on the left and right sides of their body. Now ...

Debunking and closing quantum entanglement 'loopholes'

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of physicists, including a scientist based at The University of Queensland, has recently closed an additional 'loophole' in a test explaining one of science's strangest phenomena -- ...

Danish astronomer's remains exhumed in Prague

(AP) -- Astronomer Tycho Brahe uncovered some of the mysteries of the universe in the 16th century - and now modern-day scientists are delving into the mystery of his sudden death.

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