Wearing high heels can change the way you shop
New study finds physical experience of balance influences consumer choices.
Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2013
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News tagged with research ship
Google-funded sea research vessel sets sail
A $60 million research ship funded by a Google executive is setting sail from San Francisco to study a so-called "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean and other mysteries of the sea.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2013
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Scientists find mysterious giant pockmarks on Chatham Rise
(Phys.org) —New Zealand, German and American scientists have found what may be the world's biggest pockmarks on the seafloor of the Chatham Rise about 500km east of Christchurch.
Earth Sciences
Apr 8, 2013
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WWF says Chinese 'river pig' close to extinction
China's wild finless porpoises are heading toward extinction, a conservation group said Thursday, with the dolphin-like animals now rarer than the giant panda.
Ecology
Mar 28, 2013
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Mobile aerosol observing units deployed at Cape Cod
Bracing against -10 degree Celsius temperatures in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Brookhaven atmospheric chemist Stephen Springston and his team recently completed a one-week restaging of two portable atmospheric sampling stations ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 8, 2013
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Sad end for 'Happy Feet Jr.' in New Zealand
A penguin dubbed Happy Feet junior that washed up in New Zealand 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) from his home has died despite intensive efforts to save him, Wellington Zoo said Friday.
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2013
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Swimming-pool ships make waves in modular robotics (w/ Video)
(Phys.org)—University of Pennsylvania engineering Professor Mark Yim and his students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics have been floating their robotic boats at the university pool after-hours ...
Shimmering water reveals cold volcanic vent in Antarctic waters
The location of an underwater volcanic vent, marked by a low-lying plume of shimmering water, has been revealed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2013
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Yearlong MAGIC climate study launches
(Phys.org)—A Horizon Lines container ship outfitted with meteorological and atmospheric instruments installed by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2012
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New subseafloor observatory begins measurement of frictional heating by the 2011 Tohoku, Japan earthquake
On July 16, 2012, Chikyu, operations in the second part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), achieved another objective by installing temperature sensors across the plate ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2012
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