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Particles magnetically 'click' to form superstructures

(Phys.org) -- Geomag, the popular children's toy, contains small metal spheres that can be magnetically connected with a click to build a variety of towers, bridges, and sculptures. In a new study, scientists ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Out Of The Woods For 'Ardi': Scientists Rip Habitat Claim for 'Breakthrough of the Year'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ardipithecus ramidus - a purported human ancestor that was dubbed Science magazine's 2009 "Breakthrough of the Year" - is coming under fire from scientists who say there is scant evidence for he ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists find 'great Pacific Ocean garbage patch'

Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (37) | comments 29

Mexicans put faith in masks -- but do they work?

(AP) -- The cloth patches in green, blue and white are everywhere, clamped tight over the mouth and nose of teachers, toddlers, policemen and drunks. Even the statue at the church of St. Jude, patron of lost ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 12

The Raging Windows Worm has attacked over 8.9 Million Computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week the global internet community was hit by the Downadup worm also know as Conficker, or Kido. This worm is now using multiple ways of infecting computers, including USB sticks. If s ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 10 weblog

Did bone ease acid for early land crawlers?

Here's an anatomical packing list for making that historic trip from water to land circa 370 million years ago: Lungs? Check. Legs? Check. Patches of highly vascular bone in the skin? In a new paper, scientists ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Microsoft offering defenses against Duqu virus

Microsoft on Friday was advising companies how to defend against infection by a Stuxnet-like Duqu virus.

Technology / Software

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Blooming ocean fronts

Each spring, huge patches of phytoplankton bloom in the oceans, turning cold, blue waters into teeming green pools of microbial life. This ocean “greening,” which can be seen from space, mirrors ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Oceanic 'garbage patch' not nearly as big as portrayed in media: researchers

There is a lot of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean, but claims that the "Great Garbage Patch" between California and Japan is twice the size of Texas are grossly exaggerated, according to an analysis ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 78 | with audio podcast

New pump created for microneedle drug-delivery patch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of "microneedles" to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Microsoft patches 'critical' crack in Windows

Microsoft released an emergency patch for a "critical" crack in Windows operating system software that could let hackers take control of computers over the Internet.

Technology / Software

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (16) | comments 2

Opening the gate to the cell's recycling center

(PhysOrg.com) -- In cells, as in cities, disposing of garbage and recycling anything that can be reused is an essential service. In both city and cell, health problems can arise when the process breaks down.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient artifacts revealed as northern ice patches melt

High in the Mackenzie Mountains, scientists are finding a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools being revealed as warming temperatures melt patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Microsoft hurries out patch for Internet Explorer hole

Microsoft on Tuesday will release an emergency patch for a weakness hackers are exploiting in earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software.

Technology / Software

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Hackers target freshly uncovered Internet Explorer hole

Microsoft on Tuesday warned that hackers are targeting a freshly-uncovered weakness in some earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software.

Technology / Software

created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0