Archive: 09/28/2009
Lab-grade economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Can economists conduct studies with solid scientific foundations? MIT's Joshua Angrist explains how to carry out 'natural experiments' with numbers.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Study Shows Atlanta Kills Off Start-Up Companies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Atlanta is poised to become the nation’s poster child for how to kill off a burgeoning industry. A new study by professors at Georgia Tech reveals that the city’s reputation as a high technology ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Key to subliminal messaging is to keep it negative, study shows
Subliminal messaging is most effective when the message being conveyed is negative, according to new research.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Researchers go underground to reveal 850 new species
Australian researchers have discovered a huge number of new species of invertebrate animals living in underground water, caves and "micro-caverns" amid the harsh conditions of the Australian outback.
Sep 28, 2009 |
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NASA Seeks Ideas For New Prize Challenges
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Innovative Partnerships Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington is offering an opportunity for the public to help shape the prize challenges the agency offers to America's future citizen-inventors.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France
(PhysOrg.com) -- A law has been proposed in France that would see digitally enhanced images carry a warning to viewers that the image has been retouched to change the physical appearance of a person. The proposed ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Whose Internet is it, anyway?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, broke with precedent by proposing federal rules that enforce Net neutrality -- the principle that ...
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say they have found a simple way to improve the semiconducting properties of the world’s thinnest material - by giving it a good tug.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Polar Sea Ice replicated in Hamburg
(PhysOrg.com) -- As northern Europe enjoys a rather warm start to autumn, an international team of 20 polar scientists have brought icy winter conditions to the middle of Hamburg, Germany. They are studying the effect of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2009 |
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