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Why men's ring fingers are longer than their index fingers

Biologists at the University of Florida have found a reason why men's ring fingers are generally longer than their index fingers — and why the reverse usually holds true for women.

Biology / Other

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

Gaseous ring around young star raises questions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have detected a mysterious ring of carbon monoxide gas around the young star V1052 Cen, which is about 700 light years away in the southern constellation Centaurus. The ring is ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 33 | with audio podcast

Physicists undo the 'coffee ring effect' (w/ video)

A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has shown how to disrupt the "coffee ring effect" — the ring-shaped stain of particles leftover after coffee drops evaporate — by changing the particle ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Defect in graphene may present bouquet of possibilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- A class of decorative, flower-like defects in the nanomaterial graphene could have potentially important effects on the material's already unique electrical and mechanical properties, according ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Spacecrafts reveal mysteries of Jupiter and Saturn rings

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a celestial forensic exercise, scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions have traced telltale ripples in Saturn and Jupiter's rings to specific collisions ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New way of synthesizing organic chemicals mimics nature

Organic chemists have found a new way of synthesizing multiple complex organic molecules that until now have needed to be synthesized using time-consuming methods. The new strategy, which mimics natural biosynthesis methods, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Particle collision thought to replicate Big Bang forces, may help explain how things exist

By the logic of science, things simply shouldn't exist. The best scientific minds of several generations have reasoned that shortly after the Big Bang created the universe, matter and antimatter should have wiped each other ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (22) | comments 30

Physicists create supernova in a jar (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the University of Toronto and Rutgers University have mimicked the explosion of a supernova in miniature.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Cassini sees objects blazing trails in Saturn ring

(Phys.org) -- Scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cassini Reveals New Ring Quirks, Shadows During Saturn Equinox

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month. Scientists once thought the rings were almost ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2

How world's smallest 'coffee ring' may help biosensors detect disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of biosensing has recently found an unlikely partner in the quest for increased sensitivity: coffee rings. The next time you spill your coffee on a table, look at the spot left after ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solar 'climate change' could cause rougher space weather

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research shows that the space age has coincided with a period of unusually high solar activity, called a grand maximum. Isotopes in ice sheets and tree rings tell us that this grand ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Hot molecule explains cold chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surprisingly, hydrogen cyanide and its far more energetic isomer, hydrogen isocyanide, are present in almost equal amounts in cold interstellar gas clouds. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cassini Shows Saturnian Roller Derby, Strange Weather

(PhysOrg.com) -- The seemingly serene orb of Saturn is in fact a gas giant with extraordinary patterns of charged particles and rough and tumble roller derbies for rings. Such are the findings of NASA's Cassini ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters

Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern latitudes, a recent study by researchers ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast