(PhysOrg.com) -- Surface tension isn't a very powerful force, but it matters for small things — water bugs, paint, and, it turns out, nanowires.
Nanophysics
Jul 21, 2010
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Google's share of the Chinese search engine market fell in the second quarter while the US Internet giant was embroiled in a public battle with Beijing over censorship, a research firm said Wednesday.
Internet
Jul 21, 2010
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Japan's Fujitsu launched a new mobile telephone for the elderly on Wednesday, its latest "Raku-Raku" or "easy-easy" model, with a large, crisp display and one-touch Internet access.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 21, 2010
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Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded in showing how it is possible to greatly expand the memory capacity of future computers through the use of memory units based on silica nanoparticles combined ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 21, 2010
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have applied an evolutionary 'use it or lose it' principle when studying past marriage patterns, to show that marriage can influence the evolution of age-patterns of fertility.
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2010
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A scientific breakthrough might assist in the fight against mosquitoes. New research carried out at the University of Haifa in collaboration with researchers from other universities has chemically identified, for the first ...
Ecology
Jul 21, 2010
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(AP) -- EMC Corp.'s net income more than doubled in the second quarter as corporations opened the spigot on spending for more data storage.
Business
Jul 21, 2010
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Sometimes divers, to their own painful dismay, do belly flops. But did you ever see a frog belly flop? That's just what primitive living frogs do, according to a new study1 by Dr. Richard Essner, from Southern Illinois University ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2010
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Britain's beer drinkers can serve as role models for the nation as it struggles to emerge from recession, according to an academic study.
Economics & Business
Jul 21, 2010
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Scientists at the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center have described a population of cells that mark the very first stage of differentiation of human embryonic stem cells as they enter a developmental pathway that leads ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 21, 2010
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