(AP) -- A Silicon Valley city where Facebook recently opened its new headquarters approved a deal that will allow the company to bring in thousands more employees.

Technology - Business

Apr 18, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) -- When chemists look at a drinking glass filled with water and a few ice cubes, it's not clear to them whether the glass is more like the water or the ice.

Physics - Condensed Matter

Apr 16, 2012 3.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

(Phys.org) -- An outbound comet that provided a nice show for skywatchers late last year is the target of an ongoing investigation by NASA's Swift satellite. Formally designated C/2009 P1 (Garradd), the unusually ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Apr 13, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 1 |

Drivers hoping to slip the surly -- and traffic congested -- bonds of Earth moved a step closer to realizing their dream, as a US firm said it had successfully tested a street-legal plane.

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Apr 02, 2012 3.6 / 5 (11) 24

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as water, ice, and steam are all phases of the same material that are influenced by temperature and pressure, new research shows how transitions of state work in very simple lattices ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Mar 28, 2012 4.6 / 5 (11) 1 |

The research group from Aragon that has the same name as the first Aragosaurus ischiaticus dinosaur discovered 25 years ago in Teruel reveals that it is 15 million years younger than originally believed. Its ne ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 12, 2012 4.5 / 5 (10) 4 |

With TV screens and social networking in mind, the music video site VEVO has launched a significant redesign.

Technology - Internet

Mar 09, 2012 not rated yet 0

The faster a clock ticks, the more precise it can be. Due to the fact that lightwaves vibrate faster than microwaves, optical clocks can be more precise than the caesium atomic clocks which presently determine ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 09, 2012 4.5 / 5 (11) 1 |

An international team of physicists has developed a method for taking ultrafast 'sonograms' that can track the structural changes that take place within solid materials in trillionth-of-a-second intervals ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 08, 2012 not rated yet 3 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three months before the last transit of Venus this century, scientists are gathering at the Observatoire de Paris to finalise their observation plans in a workshop supported by the Europlanet ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Mar 05, 2012 not rated yet 0

The search for new drug candidates for cancer treatment is laborious and time-consuming. Only a fraction of the promising chemical compounds identified completes the transition to the market. Herbert Waldmann ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Feb 28, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Superconductivity is a rare physical state in which matter is able to conduct electricity -- maintain a flow of electrons -- without any resistance. This phenomenon can only be found in certain ...

Physics - Superconductivity

Feb 22, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 4 |

Solar cells, light emitting diodes, displays and other electronic devices could get a bump in performance because of a discovery at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that establishes new boundaries ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 21, 2012 4.8 / 5 (8) 0 |

Dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) have recently been a major focus of magnetic semiconductor research. A laboratory from the University of Science and Technology of China explored the feasibility of doping ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Feb 20, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large areas of rainforests in Central Africa mysteriously disappeared over three thousand years ago, to be replaced by savannas. The prevailing theory has been that the cause was a change ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 10, 2012 4.1 / 5 (16) 21 |