(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are building the environmental equivalent of the ASX200 as a means of monitoring the health of Australian marine ecosystems.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 20, 2009 not rated yet 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Oct 20, 2009 3.8 / 5 (27) 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Lancet paper co-authored by a UQ researcher states that Australians are the highest cannabis users in the world, only matched by USA and New Zealand.

Medicine & Health - Health

Oct 20, 2009 1 / 5 (3) 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Oct 20, 2009 4.5 / 5 (18) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Genetic information from an extinct species of bison preserved in permafrost for thousands of years could help improve modern agricultural livestock and breeding programs, according to University ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 20, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does Bo Diddley rule the world? Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Oct 20, 2009 5 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is once again colder than deep space as it is prepared for experiments to resume in late November.

Physics - General Physics

Oct 20, 2009 4.6 / 5 (28) 7

Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem today announced that Professor L.D. Shvartsman and Professor B. Laikhtman, from the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Oct 20, 2009 4.3 / 5 (6) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace engineering ...

Technology - Engineering

Oct 20, 2009 4.3 / 5 (15) 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- B.S. Manjunath came up with the idea for his latest research project during a faculty meeting a few years ago. The UC Santa Barbara professor of electrical & computer engineering spotted a ...

Technology - Engineering

Oct 20, 2009 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- The European Union agreed Tuesday on tougher penalties to counter illegal fishing, considered a major cause of the depletion of fish stocks in European waters, particularly of prized cod and bluefin tuna.

Biology - Ecology

Oct 20, 2009 1 / 5 (1) 0

Which colour would you like your roses? Red, white, yellow... or perhaps blue?

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 20, 2009 4.7 / 5 (12) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- RIM are soon to release their updated BlackBerry, the Storm 2 smart phone, with a more streamlined design and touch-sensitive buttons instead of the hardware buttons of the first version.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 20, 2009 not rated yet 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a method using the force of light to gently trap, manipulate and study tiny, active objects as miniscule as viruses -- opening doors to expanded viral research.

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Oct 20, 2009 5 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomato plants under attack from the Botrytis fungus give off an aromatic substance that can be measured in greenhouses. This is the result of research performed by Roel Jansen with which he ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 20, 2009 not rated yet 0