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Hella Good: Scientists Petition to Name a Very Large Number

(PhysOrg.com) -- As science becomes increasing precise, and as computers provide the ability to crunch ever larger (and smaller) numbers, scientists are looking to name numbers with lots of zeroes. You've ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (26) | comments 41 | with audio podcast weblog




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To DDR3: Thanks for the memory but time for DDR4

(Phys.org) -- Micron Technology is polishing up its DDR4 memory modules, “sampling” the modules and getting feedback from major customers. The company plans to reach volume production later this year ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 43 | with audio podcast report

First results from RENO: Observation of the weakest neutrino transformation

The Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillations (RENO) research team announced the first result of the search for the remaining, most elusive puzzle of the neutrino transformation. They have found disappearance of neutrinos ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

12% of marine species in tropical Eastern Pacific threatened

Twelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Physicists set strongest limit on mass of dark matter

Brown University physicists have set the strongest limit for the mass of dark matter, the mysterious particles believed to make up nearly a quarter of the universe. The researchers report in Physical Review Le ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Researchers track half-billion year old predator

Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have followed fossilized footprints to a multi-legged predator that ruled the seas of the Cambrian period about half a billion ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Endgame for the Higgs Boson

The last missing piece of scientists’ fundamental model of particle physics is running out of places to hide.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

Hot springs microbe yields record-breaking, heat-tolerant enzyme

Bioprospectors from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a microbe in a Nevada hot spring that happily eats plant material – cellulose – ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Comparing high-resolution photographs from past, present could hold key to restoring Hastings' fire-damaged pier

On the 5th October 2010 the historic Hastings Pier was set on fire, destroying 95% of the Grade II listed building, leading to concerns over its future. Now scientists from the UK's National Physical Laboratory ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oak trees have a lot of gall

Those valley oak trees (Quercus lobata) in California's Central Valley have a lot of gall.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The peculiar nature of molecular hydrogen vibration under high pressure

Most of our Universe consists of hydrogen atoms, which are often found under extraordinarily high pressure as high as tens of millions of times the atmospheric pressure of Earth. Understanding the exotic physics ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1


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