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Researchers find new form of Mars lava flow

High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mars. The ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Adobe shows off new 'undo photo blur' feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite all the advances in digital photography, most people are still plagued by the problem of blurry photos, a problem compounded by the use of cameras embedded in cell phones due to their small size. ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

Diamonds pinpoint start of colliding continents

Jewelers abhor diamond impurities, but they are a bonanza for scientists. Safely encased in the super-hard diamond, impurities are unaltered, ancient minerals that can tell the story of Earth's distant past. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Facial structure of men and women has become more similar over time

Research from North Carolina State University shows that they really don't make women like they used to, at least in Spain. The study, which examined hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese skulls spanning four ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Neanderthal faces were not adapted to cold

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research into Neanderthal skulls suggests that facial features believed for over a century to be adaptations to extreme cold are unlikely to have evolved in response to glacial periods ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Roman era York may have been more diverse than today

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new archaeological study in Britain has shown that its multi-cultural nature is not a new phenomenon, but that even in Roman times there was a strong African influence, with North Africans ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 50 | with audio podcast report

Researchers discover new 'golden ratios' for female facial beauty

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden. The distance between a woman's eyes and the distance between her eyes and ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 14

Mini Gradiometer Could Map Other Planets' Gravity Fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although it may seem like gravity is the same everywhere on the Earth, it actually varies a small amount from place to place. Factors such as mountains, ocean trenches, and interior density ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 weblog

Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women

Hot or not? Men agree on the answer. Women don't.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 5

What makes a cow a cow? Complete bovine genome sequenced

Researchers report today in the journal Science that they have sequenced the bovine genome, for the first time revealing the genetic features that distinguish cattle from humans and other mammals.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Microsoft testing new Internet search engine Kumo

Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed it is testing a new Internet search engine it hopes will power the US software giant out of distant third place in a market dominated by Google.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Alpha

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the full release of Chrome 1.0 in December, Google has just released Chrome 2.0 alpha that brings many noticeable improvements over Chrome 1.0. With this new alpha release of Chrome 2.0, ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5 weblog

Yahoo seeks to shake up search, Web browsing

(AP) -- Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls "Axis."

Technology / Internet

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Research shows rats have best bite of rodent world

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that mice and rats have evolved to gnaw with their front teeth and chew with their back teeth more successfully than rodents that 'specialise' in one or ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Long-held genetic theory doesn't quite make the grade, biologists find

New York University biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions of embryos, while also shedding additional insight into how physical traits are arranged in body plans. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast