(Phys.org)—Some strands of the World Wide Web are getting a little tattered. When it comes to delivering data to users, the Web still works brilliantly. But for other functions such as allowing users to move between wireless ...
Internet
Oct 18, 2012
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Engineers and design professionals will be able to work anywhere on virtually any device and still have access to the computing and graphics performance of a GPU-powered workstation, with today's launch of the cloud-based ...
Hardware
Oct 18, 2012
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A thread of research pursued in a pan-European collaboration lead by Aalto University Department of Applied Physics scientists has yielded prominent results for the electron microscopy of nitrogen-doped graphene and carbon ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 18, 2012
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When it comes to the integrity and accuracy of voting systems in the United States, the good news is that widespread technological upgrades have largely eliminated the voting-machine problems that were so evident when Florida's ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2012
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(AP)—Flush with the promise of cash from a Japanese investor, Sprint Nextel Corp. on Thursday said that it wants to buy out the founder of Clearwire Corp. to gain majority control of the wireless network operator.
Telecom
Oct 18, 2012
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On March 11 2011, the world watched in awe at the sheer destructive power of the tsunami that struck Japan. The tsunami followed an earthquake off the east coast of Japan, which reached 9.0 on the Richter scale - the largest ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 18, 2012
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(Phys.org)—NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory satellite went through its first complete comprehensive performance test (CPT), beginning on Oct. 4, 2012 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ...
Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Call them cloud wannabes. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that when the sky is described as partly cloudy, particles near those clouds swell larger with water vapor. The larger particles ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2012
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A new national poll of America's 18- to 29- year olds by Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds President Barack Obama continuing to widen the gap between himself ...
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2012
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Each year thousands of cattle are slaughtered to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis. New research reveals that testing misses many animals harbouring the disease and shows that large herds are particularly vulnerable ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 18, 2012
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