(AP) -- Consumer technology companies reporting financial results this week are looking like rowboats bobbing in the wake of Apple Inc.'s supertanker.

Technology - Business

Apr 29, 2011 3.4 / 5 (5) 6

Whether it's a giant solar flare or a beautiful green-blue aurora, just about everything interesting in space weather happens due to a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. Reconnection occurs when magnetic ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 29, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today the University of Chicago's Flash Center for Computational Science will release a major new version of supercomputer code, called FLASH 4-alpha. Based on previous software for simulating ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Apr 29, 2011 3.9 / 5 (7) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Have you ever had a Jacques Cousteau fantasy? A yearning to live your own version of 20,000 leagues under the sea? Or maybe, you just want to see the great barrier reef on something other ...

Technology - Engineering

Apr 29, 2011 4.4 / 5 (5) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The long running debate on whether cell phones are capable of damaging human tissue and causing health problems received new fuel from a paper published at arXiv by theoretical biologist Bill Bruno from Los Alamos National Laborato ...

Physics - General Physics

Apr 29, 2011 4.4 / 5 (14) 24 |

Australian researchers have done the impossible -- they’ve found the sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared! The calculation would have taken a single computer processor unit (CPU) 1,500 years to ...

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Apr 29, 2011 3.5 / 5 (20) 35 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the best ways to edit your documents on your tablet PC has been to use a web-based service like Google Docs. Running Google Docs on an Android-based tablet lacks usability and has always ...

Technology - Software

Apr 29, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- One day, years from now--or maybe billions of years, no one knows--aliens might be surprised to run across an old spaceship from Earth. Improbably far from home, the ancient probe is space ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 29, 2011 5 / 5 (7) 8 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- DLR, an aerospace agency based in German, has modified its flagship robot, known as the Rollin’ Justin, in order to make it into a lean, mean, catching machine. The Rollin’ Justin's ...

Electronics - Robotics

Apr 29, 2011 4.5 / 5 (8) 14 |

The Boston Globe reported Friday that a businessman is preparing to offer more than $200 million to buy the struggling newspaper from its owner, The New York Times Co.

Technology - Business

Apr 29, 2011 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a move with far and wide consequences for the automobile industry, many groups are banding together to study the two-pronged problem of high initial costs for lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Apr 29, 2011 3 / 5 (4) 1 |

Britain's royal wedding broke records for live streaming on Friday, Internet firms said, causing some websites to falter under the strain as hundreds of millions watched online.

Technology - Internet

Apr 29, 2011 not rated yet 2

A US federal appeals court on Friday ruled that government funding for embryonic stem cell research can go ahead, handing a major victory to President Barack Obama's administration.

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 29, 2011 4.7 / 5 (12) 60

An unmanned Russian cargo vessel on Friday docked without a hitch at the International Space Station, bringing a fresh supply of oxygen and equipment to the six-member crew.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 29, 2011 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- The president was on his way. Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts were riding out to the launch pad in a van. And a wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had flown in from her Houston rehab hospital to ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 29, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0