(AP) -- Research In Motion said its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 37 percent as its BlackBerry subscriber base grew and smart phone shipments increased.
Business
Mar 31, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta mechanical engineering professor has developed a new model that could revolutionize the design of hand-held devices that provide reliable, nearly instant medical or environmental tests.
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 31, 2010
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Understanding the physical mechanisms that enable a droplet to be displaced by propagating an acoustic wave along the substrate on which it lies is the hurdle that has been overcome by researchers from the Institut d'Electronique ...
General Physics
Mar 31, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built and tested a device for trapping electrically charged atoms (ions) that potentially could process dozens of ions at once with the ...
General Physics
Mar 31, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of -- let's say -- gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms?* It's a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that ...
Nanophysics
Mar 31, 2010
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Noted Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded researcher, Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky is pioneering a new approach for measuring, anticipating and managing catastrophic risks, sometimes called "Black Swans" or natural ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of brood parasitism in birds has shown that the nest-poaching New Zealand shining cuckoo's ability to mimic its grey warbler host is an evolutionary curiosity.
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2010
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(AP) -- One of the most popular sites on the Web - YouTube - is getting a new look.
Internet
Mar 31, 2010
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(AP) -- One of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms is doubling its bet on Apple's mobile gadgets in hopes of cashing in on the highly anticipated iPad.
Business
Mar 31, 2010
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About 1.6 million people -- mostly women and children -- die each year from indoor air pollution caused by cooking and heating with wood, dung, coal or crop waste, according to the World Health Organization.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 31, 2010
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