At 11:24 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2012, the sun unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME).

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Oct 05, 2012 4.9 / 5 (7) 5

Mexican archaeologists say they have determined that the ancient Mayas built watchtower-style structures atop the ceremonial ball court at the temples of Chichen Itza to observe the equinoxes and solstices, ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 05, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 3

The El Nino weather phenomenon could return within days but will be relatively weak compared with past episodes, the UN's weather agency said Tuesday.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 25, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

Scientists at Arizona State University have discovered that ants utilize a strategy to handle "information overload." Temnothorax rugatulus ants, commonly found living in rock crevices in the Southwest, place ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 24, 2012 3 / 5 (2) 3 |

On Sept. 16, 1987, representatives from nations around the world drafted a landmark treaty known as the Montreal Protocol. This step marked the beginning of the international agreement to phase out substances ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

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(Phys.org)—When Einstein described the interaction between two distant objects as "spooky interaction at a distance," he was referring to the quantum phenomenon called steering. Steering can occur in strongly ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Sep 17, 2012 4.8 / 5 (9) 14 |

In the United States, data centers already consume two percent of the electricity available with consumption doubling every five years. In theory, at this rate, a supercomputer in the year 2050 will require ...

Technology - Semiconductors

Sep 12, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—An electron, as well as other subatomic particles with an electric charge, is actually a little magnet—it spins like a top, giving it its own magnetic moment.

Physics - General Physics

Sep 11, 2012 4.4 / 5 (16) 50 |

Researchers at Aalto University, Finland, have developed a new concept for computing, using water droplets as bits of digital information. This was enabled by the discovery that upon collision with each other on a highly ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 07, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 1

(Phys.org)—Researchers from The Australian National University have taken a quantum leap towards developing the next-generation super-fast networks needed to drive future computing.

Physics - Quantum Physics

Aug 30, 2012 5 / 5 (13) 1 |

Some RNA molecules spend time in a restful state akin to hibernation rather than automatically carrying out their established job of delivering protein-building instructions in cells, new research suggests.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Aug 27, 2012 5 / 5 (7) 11 |

(Phys.org)—Researchers at the University of Alberta have teamed up with colleagues in one of the world's leading centres on electronic gaming to form a network that will help close the gap between academia ...

Technology - Software

Aug 24, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) -- Virtual melting is a phase transition phenomenon associated with solid-solid phase transformation and relaxation of nonhydrostatic stresses and other effects in HMX explosives, as well as wit ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Aug 21, 2012 3.6 / 5 (5) 3 |

With drought parching farms in the United States and near the Black Sea, weak monsoon rains in India and insidious hunger in Africa's Sahel region, the world could be headed towards another food crisis, experts ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 19, 2012 4.9 / 5 (8) 28

(Phys.org) -- For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Aug 09, 2012 5 / 5 (9) 0 |