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BlackBerry maker facing critical test this year

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, losing ground rapidly in the smartphone wars, needs to take bold steps to revive its fortunes and compete with iPhones and Android devices overwhelming the market, analysts say.

Technology / Business

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Autopsy of a eruption: Linking crystal growth to volcano seismicity

A forensic approach that links changes deep below a volcano to signals at the surface is described by scientists from the University of Bristol in a paper published today in Science. The research could ultima ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nea Kameni volcano movement captured by Envisat (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Archived data from the Envisat satellite show that the volcanic island of Santorini has recently displayed signs of unrest. Even after the end of its mission, Envisat information continues to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New technology tracks sparrow migration for first time from California to Alaska

Using tiny tags to track a bird's location, biologists from PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO) have unlocked the mystery of where Golden-crowned Sparrows, which overwinter in California, go to breed in the spring. Published ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Copper-based materials show strange spin states

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as water, ice, and steam are all phases of the same material that are influenced by temperature and pressure, new research shows how transitions of state work in very simple lattices ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

IAI’s military robot acts like barber in charity role

(PhysOrg.com) -- In robotics, three hands are better than one, in the form of a device that has been developed by Intelligent Automation Inc (IAI) for use as troop support. The Multi-Arm Unmanned Ground Vehicle ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Study reveals how monarch butterflies recolonize northern breeding range

Each year, millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) migrate from overwintering grounds in central Mexico to colonize eastern North America, but just how these delicate creatures manage to reach the northern part o ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

From food waste to bus fuel and biofertilizer

Banana peel, coffee grounds and other food waste will be transformed into green fuel for Oslo’s city buses starting next year. The Norwegian capital’s new biogas plant will also supply nutrient-rich ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Polish report: shale gas extraction not harmful

(AP) -- A scientific study in Poland has found that shale gas extraction at one site produced some toxic refuse but that the waste was reused and didn't harm the environment.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nasa finds sea ice decline driving rise in Arctic air pollutants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 99 | with audio podcast

Galileo on the ground reaches some of Earth's loneliest places

A worldwide chain of Galileo ground stations on some of the remotest sites on Earth is nearing completion ahead of this year’s launch of two more satellites.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tohoku grim reminder of potential for Pacific Northwest megaquake

Tohoku earthquake is a grim reminder of the potential for another strong-motion mega-earthquake along the Pacific Northwest coast, geophysicist John Anderson of the University of Nevada, Reno told members of the American ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research on Japanese quake ominous for Pacific Northwest

Scientists are still unraveling last year's giant Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and some of what they're finding doesn't bode well for the Pacific Northwest.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 14

First EarthScope 'transportable array' seismic station reaches U.S. east coast

Yulee, Florida. Not a place one usually thinks of as an Earthquake Epicenter.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Pyramids' planted to revive Philippine corals

Thousands of small "pyramids" are being planted off the Philippines' famous Boracay resort island in an effort to bring its nearly destroyed coral reefs back to life, an environment group said Thursday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0