(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a hormone acting like molecular glue could hold a key to bolstering plant immune systems and understanding how plants cope with environmental stress.
Biochemistry
Oct 6, 2010
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Scientists knew that the microbe Shewanella oneidensis transformed the electronic structure of the iron oxide it touched in the ground as well as without direct contact. Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ...
Biochemistry
Oct 6, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has concluded its observations of the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe. The ...
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2010
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US software giant Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has bought AVIcode, a Maryland-based company that monitors the performance of online applications and services.
Software
Oct 6, 2010
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Facebook is letting users form cozy cliques as part of a move to give people more control of their information at the world's most popular online social network.
Internet
Oct 6, 2010
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(AP) -- Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that its new wireless broadband network, which offers higher data speeds initially for laptop users, will be live before the end of the year in the cities on the Boston-to-Washington ...
Telecom
Oct 6, 2010
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A University of Delaware researcher is helping to design instruments for a robotic space probe that will go where no other has gone before: the sun.
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2010
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In a high definition world, 1080p has been the latest standard for LCD screens. All of that is quickly changing thanks to Sharp Corporation's newest LCD prototype that boasts a whopping four-times higher resolution display ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 6, 2010
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Murder takes an obvious toll on society in terms of the loss of human life, but what does it actually cost each time there's a murder? It's about $17.25 million according a recent Iowa State University study.
Social Sciences
Oct 6, 2010
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(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc., seeking to become a bigger name in consumer electronics, said Wednesday that it's going to start selling a $599 box that turns living-room TV sets into big videophones.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 6, 2010
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