(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Chinese and Australian scientists have developed a handheld, battery-powered plasma-producing device that can rid skin of bacteria in an instant.

Physics - Plasma Physics

Apr 04, 2012 4.8 / 5 (24) 16 |

Many Christians give up certain foods for Lent, however ecologists have discovered these changes in human diet have a dramatic impact on the diet of wild animals. In Ethiopia, members of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church stop ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 04, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University could ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Apr 04, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

Tropical Storm Daphne has become an extra-tropical storm and is fading fast in the South Pacific Ocean, but not before making its mark on the Fuji Islands. NASA's TRMM satellite compiled rainfall data that ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 04, 2012 not rated yet 1

A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system moving through the ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 04, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 0

The European Commission urged the EU Parliament on Wednesday to hold off on voting on a controversial global anti-online piracy pact until judges rule on its legality.

Technology - Internet

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Google on Wednesday gave the world a glimpse of its vision for letting people look at life through Internet-tinted glasses.

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Apr 04, 2012 5 / 5 (11) 34

Chile's Supreme Court Wednesday removed the last legal obstacle to building a giant $2.9 billion hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, rejecting a bid by environmentalists to block it.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 04, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1

(AP) -- British online movie service blinkbox will start carrying Disney movies, many of them for rent on the same day they are released for sale.

Technology - Business

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(AP) -- YouTube and Paramount Pictures have reached a deal to make nearly 500 films available to rent online, even while their parent companies continue to feud over a $1 billion lawsuit.

Technology - Internet

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(AP) -- Google says it will double its server capacity in Oklahoma and add 50 jobs when it builds a new facility in the state.

Technology - Internet

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Ecosystems today face various threats, from climate change to invasive species to encroaching civilization. If we hope to protect these systems and the species that live in them, we must understand them — an extremely ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 04, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have shown that popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75 percent of their energy tracking the user's geographical location, sending information about the user to advertisers and downloading ...

Technology - Software

Apr 04, 2012 4.8 / 5 (5) 1 |

Diamonds are forever – or, at least, the effects of this diamond on quantum computing may be. A team that includes scientists from USC has built a quantum computer in a diamond, the first of its kind to include protection ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Apr 04, 2012 4.7 / 5 (29) 8 |

A three-year study of giant pandas published today in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press reveals that reproductive seasonality exists not only in female pandas, but in male pandas as well.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 04, 2012 not rated yet 1 |