Archive: 01/25/2006

The Web: Working hard or hardly working?

Are you wasting time when online? Or working? A new study released this week showed that about 20 percent of government staff, while on the job, in one Malaysian state utilized the Internet for purely personal activities ...

Jan 25, 2006 5 / 5 (1) 0

The New Laptops

It’s not your parent’s laptop: new models offer a wide range of different configurations for every need and taste.

Jan 25, 2006 3.6 / 5 (72) 0 feature

Icy exoplanet brings astronomers closer to home

Major Scientific Discovery on Extrasolar Planets Using a relatively new planet-hunting technique that can spot worlds one-tenth the mass of our own, researchers have discovered a potentially rocky, icy body t ...

Jan 25, 2006 4.8 / 5 (23) 0

The grass is greener after a cold winter

We may well be shivering through an unusually chilly winter, but the dip in temperature is not all bad news, at least for your lawn. Researchers at Harper Adams University College, Shropshire, believe a cold winter leads ...

Jan 25, 2006 3.3 / 5 (4) 0

NJIT's SmartCampus project to create closer connections

The entire campus of New Jersey Institute of Technology will soon be a laboratory for investigating innovative ways in which students can better connect with each other by using cell phones and other compact wireless communications ...

Jan 25, 2006 4.1 / 5 (11) 0

A new way to help computers recognize patterns

Researchers at Ohio State University have found a way to boost the development of pattern recognition software by taking a different approach from that used by most experts in the field. This work may impact research in areas ...

Jan 25, 2006 4.2 / 5 (12) 0

XMM-Newton scores 1000 top-class science results

XMM-Newton, ESA's X-ray observatory, continues its quest for the unknown. This month, after five years of operations, the mission saw the publication of its 1000th scientific paper, corresponding to an equivalent ...

Jan 25, 2006 3.5 / 5 (6) 0