Brazil and India pay a high price for rapid economic growth, according to experts speaking at a major international meeting in London, Planet Under Pressure.

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Mar 28, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new result from ESO’s HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 28, 2012 4.7 / 5 (20) 37 |

New guidelines on how to save some of Europe's most threatened butterfly species have been published by a team of scientists co-ordinated by Butterfly Conservation Europe. The report covers 29 threatened species ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

Taiwan's leading flat panel maker AU Optronics plans to raise at least $370 million in new funds and may introduce strategic partners from China or Japan, officials said Wednesday.

Technology - Business

Mar 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report launched this week shows that a shortage of graduates threatens the UK economy.

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Mar 28, 2012 not rated yet 1

A University of Michigan startup marketing next-generation computer memory that could write 1,000 times faster than Flash is the recipient of U-M's first investment in one of its own startup companies.

Technology - Business

Mar 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As warmer winter temperatures become more common, one way for some animals to adjust is to shift their ranges northward. But a new study of 59 North American bird species indicates that doing ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 28, 2012 4.8 / 5 (6) 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cash-for-Facebook’s-“likes” hustle hanging out in Google Chrome Web Store has been discovered by Kaspersky Lab. The researchers first discovered extensions leading to the ...

Technology - Internet

Mar 28, 2012 3.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Traffic and transit information from smart phones, online maps, or radio and TV is not as timely or accurate as it could be, given all the untapped data that could provide a truly dynamic regional traffic picture.

Technology - Computer Sciences

Mar 28, 2012 2 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Male dolphins not only form a series of complex alliances based on their close relatives and friends but these alliances also form a shifting mosaic of overlapping geographic ranges within ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 28, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of North Carolina State University researchers are one step closer to creating a workable, affordable full-screen Braille computer display that would allow the blind to scan Web pages in much the same ...

Technology - Engineering

Mar 28, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Life deep in the seabed proceeds very slowly. But the slow-growing bacteria living many meters beneath the seafloor play an important role in the global storage of organic carbon and have a long-term effect ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 28, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Paper replicas of Apple's iPad and iPhone are selling like hot cakes in China this year as millions prepare to honour their ancestors in an age-old annual festival that has taken on a modern twist.

Technology - Other

Mar 28, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 0

Take an ounce of lettuce, test it for 17 hours, and the results show whether that mainstay ingredient in green salads is contaminated with Salmonella, the food poisoning bacteria that sickens millions of people each year. ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Mar 28, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a rough life for the Tsimane, an isolated indigenous group in Bolivia. They make a living by hunting and foraging in forests, fishing in streams and clearing land by hand to grow crops. ...

Biology - Other

Mar 28, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 0 |