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When dinosaurs roamed a fiery landscape

The dinosaurs of the Cretaceous may have faced an unexpected hazard: fire! In a paper published online today, researchers from Royal Holloway University of London and The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago have shown ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Our brains are confused about time

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study published in the journal Psychological Science has found our concept of time is distorted, and we consistently underestimate how much time has passed since events in the pa ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (17) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report




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Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights

(Phys.org) -- A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Everyone knows it's windy . . .

... And now they have the data to prove it.  The middle of Lake Michigan is a vast, untapped reservoir of wind energy. The next step will be to find out if it can be harvested economically without harming ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques

Two years ago, Martin Rinard's group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposed a surprisingly simple way to make some computer procedures more efficient: Just skip a bunch of ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Extremely rare transit of Venus to occur on June 5, 2012

A few hours before sunset on June 5th, 2012 residents of the Washington, DC metropolitan area will have a chance to witness one of the rarest celestial phenomena known: a “Transit of Venus”.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

A magnetic approach to lattices

(Phys.org) -- JQI experimentalists under the direction of Ian Spielman are in the business of using lasers to create novel environments for neutral atoms. For instance, this research group previously enticed ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study provides baseline measurements of carbon in Arctic Ocean

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provid ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer that a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

EU physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather

The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How to make a splash

(Phys.org) -- A team of physicists has used the high-energy x-rays of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to penetrate the everyday mystery of a splash, revealing previously hidden ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists core into California's Clear Lake to explore past climate change

(Phys.org) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 16 | with audio podcast


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