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Free apps drain smartphone energy on 'advertising modules'

(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

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The fate of the big rain

Climate change affects people both globally and regionally. Pankaj Kumar, for example, who works at the Climate Service Center and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, is investigating the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fundamental matter-antimatter symmetry confirmed

International collaboration including MPQ scientists sets a new value for the antiproton mass relative to the electron with unprecedented precision.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Future for incandescent light bulbs looking dim

So, how many members of Congress does it take to screw up a light bulb?

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 66

Breaking the chain: 'Molecular cap' blocks processes that lead to Alzheimer's, HIV

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new advance by UCLA biochemists has brought scientists one step closer to developing treatments that could delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease and prevent the sexual transmission of HIV.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Portman's role in 'Thor' highlights rise of women in astronomy

Natalie Portman plays an astrophysicist in the recently released movie "Thor," but she is hardly the first Hollywood actress in a leading role as an astronomer.

Other Sciences / Other

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 4

The sorry state of health of US medicine

As the debate about healthcare in the United States rages, four insightful articles in the March 2011 issue of The American Journal of Medicine strive to add reasoned arguments and empirical research findings to the dialog ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

To escape blame, be a victim, not a hero, new study finds

Great works and praiseworthy behavior may bring respect and admiration, but these won't help us to escape blame when we do something wrong, says a new study by researchers at the University of Maryland and Harvard University. ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Probing Question: Why are resolutions so hard to keep?

For the person who’s trying to quit smoking, it may be a friend’s offer of a cigarette at the bar one Saturday night that knocks them off track. For someone with a weight loss resolution, it may ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As climate talks drag on, more ponder techno-fixes

(AP) -- Like the warming atmosphere above, a once-taboo idea hangs over the slow, frustrating U.N. talks to curb climate change: the idea to tinker with the atmosphere or the planet itself, pollute the skies ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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