Google's aggressive online growth increasingly has a counterpart in bricks and mortar, with the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters mushrooming over the past four years to occupy more than 4 million square feet, ...

Technology - Business

Nov 18, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell University scientist has demonstrated that psi anomalies, more commonly known as precognition, premonitions or extra-sensory perception (ESP), really do exist at a statistically significant level. ...

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 18, 2010 3.4 / 5 (74) 108 |

As the Environmental Protection Agency struggles with how to accurately label passenger vehicles for fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions, a new online cost and CO2 emissions calculator has launched to help fill the ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Nov 18, 2010 3 / 5 (2) 0

A meeting on the fate of the Atlantic bluefin tuna got into its stride on Thursday as Europe mulled a call for a modest cut in catches and Japan said it would propose a fishing ban on nations that cheat.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 18, 2010 3.8 / 5 (4) 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- McGill University researchers have presented three studies suggesting depending on GPS to navigate may have a negative effect on brain function, especially on the hippocampus, which is involved ...

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Nov 18, 2010 4.6 / 5 (9) 6 |

If today's fastest smart phones deliver e-mails and Web pages with the speed of a thoroughbred racehorse, then the next generation of phones - now rolling onto the runway - may feel like jet planes.

Technology - Telecom

Nov 18, 2010 2.7 / 5 (3) 7

Blooms of toxic algae can occur in the open ocean, a team led by University of California-Santa Cruz and Moss Landing Marine Lab scientists reported last week.

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 18, 2010 3.8 / 5 (9) 1

(AP) -- Internet users can now take a virtual tour of 20 of Germany's largest cities on Google Inc.'s panoramic Street View program - but they won't always get a full view.

Technology - Internet

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You may not realize it, but you just made a decision: namely, to read (or at least start to read) this article. Why? What process just occurred in your brain to cause you to be reading this sentence right now? How and why ...

Medicine & Health - Psychology & Psychiatry

Nov 18, 2010 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new paper published by the Society for Risk Analysis, a UC Berkeley researcher argues for caution when dealing with carbon nanotubes. Because environmental and health information on carbon nanotubes ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Nov 18, 2010 4.5 / 5 (2) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report that a new test for measuring the ability of gravity to bend light seen from distant stars around large objects like black holes may offer proof of the ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 18, 2010 4.2 / 5 (39) 12 |

Facebook's new online messaging service makes users of the social networking site more vulnerable to identity theft by cybercriminals, computer security firm Sophos warned Thursday.

Technology - Internet

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In 1989, before the Internet revolution, Suleyman Anil was the lone man in charge of the security of NATO's IT system, armed with a single computer.

Technology - Internet

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Twitter wants to friend Facebook but the hot Internet stars have been unable to make a relationship work, a co-founder of the microblogging said.

Technology - Internet

Nov 18, 2010 not rated yet 0

Social network game developer Zynga has unveiled "CityVille," the first globally released online game built by the hot startup behind play hits "FarmVille" and "Mafia Wars."

Technology - Internet

Nov 18, 2010 not rated yet 1