(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Japan-based semiconductor manufacturer Rohm, together with a team from Osaka University, have come up with a chip that, in experiments, has achieved a wireless data transmission ...

Technology - Telecom

Nov 25, 2011 4.7 / 5 (24) 20 |

US authorities have shut down a number of websites in the latest crackdown on online trafficking in counterfeit goods.

Technology - Internet

Nov 25, 2011 3.3 / 5 (3) 3

International golf stars, spectators and media at the World Cup on the southern Chinese island of Hainan are enjoying uncensored Internet access denied to 1.3 billion Chinese.

Technology - Internet

Nov 25, 2011 not rated yet 1

The little planes that connect America's small cities to the rest of the world are slowly being phased out. Airlines are getting rid of these planes — their least-efficient — in response to the high cost of fuel. ...

Technology - Business

Nov 25, 2011 not rated yet 0

As shoppers snapped up Black Friday deals around the United States, US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign also jumped into the fray, offering discounts on 2012 merchandise.

Technology - Internet

Nov 25, 2011 not rated yet 1

Sharks may strike terror among swimmers at the beach but the predators are increasingly ending up as prey, served up in fish-and-chips shops, sparking concern among environmentalists.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 25, 2011 not rated yet 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago today, NACO became operational: the first adaptive optics system of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). Adaptive Optics allows astronomers to remove the stars' twinkling – ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Nov 25, 2011 4.4 / 5 (9) 3

The UN special rapporteur on the right to food urged the EU for a rethink on biofuels Friday, saying huge errors had been committed in the initial enthusiasm for an alternative to harmful fossil fuels.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Nov 25, 2011 3.4 / 5 (7) 10

Denmark aims to have wind power supply half of the country's electricity needs in 2020, under a new programme presented by Climate and Energy Minister Martin Lidegaard on Friday.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Nov 25, 2011 4.5 / 5 (8) 4

Cardiff researchers have discovered that culture and the attitudes of road users towards risk are fundamental in explaining road traffic safety in the UK and around the world.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Nov 25, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 1

Physicist Richard Feynman in his famous 1959 talk, "Plenty of Room at the Bottom," described the precise control at the atomic level promised by molecular machines of the future. More than 50 years later, synthetic molecular ...

Chemistry - Other

Nov 25, 2011 3.8 / 5 (6) 5 |

Physicists from the University of Stuttgart show the first experimental proof of a molecule consisting of two identical atoms that exhibits a permanent electric dipole moment. This observation contradicts ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 25, 2011 4.6 / 5 (22) 7 |

Banded ironstone core samples from the Pilbara have aided in dating the first appearance of atmospheric oxygen at 2.48 billion years ago.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Nov 25, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 4

Using fixation reactions to convert free carbon dioxide (CO2) into different organic molecules is an attractive strategy to cut industrial greenhouse gas levels with marginal waste. Now, broadening the scope ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Nov 25, 2011 5 / 5 (5) 0

In an article earlier this month, I discussed the potential for discovering moons orbiting extrasolar planets. I’d used an image of an exoplant system with rings, prompting one reader to ask if those wou ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Nov 25, 2011 5 / 5 (7) 0