(PhysOrg.com) -- The harder consumers try to track how much their groceries will cost, the worse they do, according to a new study co-authored by Brian Wansink in the March issue of the Journal of Marketing.
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2010
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Saturn will be opposite the sun in our sky on March 21, when it will be closest to Earth in its orbit. Rising in the east at sunset, appearing highest in the south around midnight and setting in the west at dawn, Saturn will ...
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2010
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One of the pleasures of perusing ancient maps is locating regions so poorly explored that mapmakers warned of dragons and sea monsters. Now, astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope find themselves in the ...
Astronomy
Mar 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Aquarius instrument, and the Argentinian spacecraft that will carry it into space, the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D), successfully rode out one of the largest earthquakes in recorded ...
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget iris and fingerprint scans - scanning noses could be a quicker and easier way to verify a person's identity, according to scientists from the University of the West of England and University of Bath.
Computer Sciences
Mar 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA may provide the blueprint for life, but scientists are learning more about the role of a chemical code that governs the way that blueprint is read.
Biochemistry
Mar 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander showed no sign during February that it has revived itself after the northern Mars winter. NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will check again in early April.
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2010
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When it comes to high-speed Internet access, are you getting what you pay for?
Telecom
Mar 2, 2010
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Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age - ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future - requires solutions that are at least as much economic ...
Other
Mar 2, 2010
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The James Webb Space Telescope reached a mission-readiness landmark today when its first primary mirror segment was cryo-polished to its required prescription as measured at operational cryogenic temperatures. This achievement ...
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2010
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