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Apple aims to build new spaceship-like campus

Apple is hoping to break ground next year on a new campus designed to house 12,000 workers in a building that resembles a huge spaceship.

Technology / Business

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Google to launch online music service: report

Internet giant Google could launch an online music service as early as Tuesday to rival Amazon's "cloud" service, which allows users to store digital music online, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Technology / Internet

created May 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research brings habitat models into the future

Time marches on, and thanks to Michigan State University research, models of wildlife habitat now can monitor changes over time more accurately and more easily.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Hot Jupiter' planets unlikely to have moons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Planets of the major type so far found outside our solar system are unlikely to have moons, according to new research reported in the August 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

What makes the giant freak wave 'stable'

The dreaded giant freak wave that can appear on the open sea out of nowhere, can now for the first time be theoretically calculated and modelled. Researchers at Umea University and the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in Germany have ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Flower organ's cells make random decisions that determine size

The sepals of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana -- commonly known as the mouse-eared cress—are characterized by an outer layer of cells that vary widely in their sizes, and are distributed in equally varied patter ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Helium rain on Jupiter explains lack of neon in atmosphere

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie "Up." In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Studying how black holes grow

Black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the universe. They are the final evolutionary stage of giant stars much larger than the sun. When these stars explode, their cores collapse down to the size ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Mass Loss Leaves Close-In Exoplanets Exposed to the Core

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime. The team found that planets ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Google refines searches for pictures and news

Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Asia Pacific PC sales down five pct in first quarter: report

Sales of personal computers in the Asia Pacific region excluding Japan fell five percent in the first quarter from the previous year as a global economic slump hurt demand, a report said Monday.

Technology / Business

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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