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Scientists Find Asteroids Are Missing, and Possibly Why

(PhysOrg.com) -- The patterns of missing asteroids are like the footprints of wandering giant planets preserved in the asteroid belt.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 1

Universe's not-so-missing mass

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Monash student has made a breakthrough in the field of astrophysics, discovering what has until now been described as the Universe's 'missing mass'. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working within a team at the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 31 | with audio podcast

Have we met? Research finds 'missing social knowledge'

(PhysOrg.com) -- The face looks familiar but... Just as humans don't always know their neighbors, new research at the University of Michigan shows even the most social of animals don't always recognize individuals they regularly ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Missing' heat may affect future climate change

Current observational tools cannot account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years, according to a "Perspectives" article in this week's issue of Science. Scientists at the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (24) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

High-performance computing reveals missing genes

Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech have used high-performance computing to locate small genes that have been missed by scientists in their quest ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Database can crack missing person cases -- if used

(AP) -- A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it.

Technology / Other

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many US police use cell phones to track: study

Many US police departments use cell phone tracking, often without court orders, to find suspects and investigate criminal cases, according to a study released Monday.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Microsoft says it can restore wiped Sidekick data

(AP) -- There may be a happy ending after all for owners of Sidekick phones who thought they might have permanently lost contact numbers and other personal information they had put on the gadget.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0