Scientists find 'great Pacific Ocean garbage patch'
Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch."
Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch."
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009
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NASA's GOES Project has been busy with animating satellite imagery of Tropical Storm Danny, and has created a movie of him from August 25-27.
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian and US solar cell researchers have achieved the highest efficiency for solar power, setting a new world record of 43 per cent of sunlight converted into electricity.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 27, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, anyone ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 27, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence of a previously unknown voyage to North America in 1499, led by a Bristol explorer, is to be published this week in the academic journal Historical Research.
Other
Aug 27, 2009
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(AP) -- TiVo Inc. on Wednesday sued AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. for patent infringement, including one covering the ability to pause and rewind live TV.
Business
Aug 27, 2009
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Internet giant Google added automatic translation to Google Docs on Thursday allowing users to translate documents into 42 languages.
Internet
Aug 27, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to love and money, opposites really do attract, says a University of Michigan researcher.
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2009
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Scientists led by a former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will warn today that the UN negotiations aimed at tackling climate change are based on substantial underestimates of what it will cost to ...
Environment
Aug 27, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study on the use of radio-frequency identification tags on individual retail items shows that inventory accuracy decreases or diminishes over time with conventional systems that rely on barcodes and/or ...
Engineering
Aug 27, 2009
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