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The ultimate babysitter? iPads for infants stir debate

Twenty-two-month-old George sits on a tiny blue chair, at a baby-sized desk, playing with a grown-up toy -- an iPad, sign of a powerful trend that has set alarm bells ringing among child development experts.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6

New research reveals food ingredients most prone to fraudulent economically motivated adulteration

In new research published in the April Journal of Food Science, analyses of the first known public database compiling reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food highlight the most fraud-prone ingred ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Image: Asteroid caught marching across Tadpole Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- This infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole Nebula, a star-forming hub in the Auriga constellation about 12,000 light-years from Earth. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The observatory above the clouds

If you want to reach for the stars, you have to lift off. This could be the motto of Sofia, a jumbo jet which has been converted into an observatory. On board it carries a 2.7-metre telescope, which the researchers ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Making a spectacle of star formation in Orion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, this nebula brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists hope to get glimpse of adolescent universe from revolutionary instrument-on-a-chip

Scientists know what the universe looked like when it was a baby. They know what it looks like today. What they don't know is how it looked in its youth. Thanks to technological advances, however, scientists ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 9

Duo of big telescopes probes the depths of binary star formation

A team of researchers from four Japanese universities (Kobe, Saitama, Osaka, and Tokyo) has been able to delineate the intricate structure of the circumbinary disk that surrounds a young binary star system ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Stellar super soaker

Located in the constellation of Perseus and just a mere 750 light years from Earth, a young protostar is very busy spewing forth copious amounts of water. Embedded in a cloud of gas and dust, the hundred thousand ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass

(PhysOrg.com) -- Planetary scientists have long wondered why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the inner solar system, probably formed about the same ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 05, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Spitzer sees crystal 'rain' in outer clouds of infant star

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 27, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast


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