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Zooming in on data

(PhysOrg.com) -- Companies of all sizes are struggling with the growing flood of data and information. Staff can quickly lose sight of impending risks or hidden opportunities. Now a new zoom software is helping users get ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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New technique suggests Medieval Warm Period made it to Antarctica

Scientists have developed a new method of reconstructing past climates that uses the water locked inside crystals in seabed sediment to shed light on the history of the Antarctic.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 32 | with audio podcast

On the safe side: Contact-free analysis of chemical substances

Is it drugs, medicines or explosives? At the Analytica trade fair, German researchers are presenting a terahertz spectrometer that provides reliable, contact-free identification of substances.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Earth siblings can be different: Chemical clues on the formation of planetary systems

An international team of researchers, with the participation of IAC astronomers, has discovered that the chemical structure of Earth-like planets can be very different from the bulk composition of the Earth. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Redefining the kilogram

New research, published by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), takes a significant step towards changing the international definition of the kilogram – which is currently based on a lump of platinum-iridium kept ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 9

Less lively aluminum baseball bats change game

Baseball is considered relatively safe, but its reputation was established in the era of wooden bats. Aluminum bats, introduced in the 1970s, had an enormous “trampoline effect” and made the game ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Odds of living a very long life lower than formerly predicted

Research just published by a team of demographers at the social science research organization NORC at the University of Chicago contradicts a long-held belief that the mortality rate of Americans flattens out above age 80.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The world's slowest clock

(PhysOrg.com) -- National Physical Laboratory is well known for having some of the fastest and most accurate clocks in the world, but now new research with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Quasicrystal is extraterrestrial in origin

A rare and exotic mineral, so unusual that it was thought impossible to exist, came to Earth on a meteorite, according to an international team of researchers led by Princeton University scientists. The discovery ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (37) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

NPL and SUERC calibrate a 'rock clock'

New research by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) will improve the accuracy of estimates of the time of geological events. The work centres on the calibration ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

55": LG announces world's largest OLED TV panel

LG Display announced that it has developed the world's largest 55-inch OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) TV panel. The 55-inch panel is a significant step forward in the popularization of OLED TVs and demonstrates ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 9 | with audio podcast


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