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Study exposes habit formation in smartphone users

Popular media has raised the issue of repetitive and obsessive use of smartphones. Data collected in Finland and in USA presents the first scientific evidence for what the authors dubbed "checking habits": repetitive checks ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicists seek to keep next-gen colliders in one piece

(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2




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Professor examines how newspaper 'layoff survivors' view themselves, work

(Phys.org) -- Layoffs, reduced budgets and changing job roles in the past several years have changed the face of journalism. A University of Kansas professor has published a study examining how those who have survived multiple ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unique garden experiment changes understanding of behavioral mechanisms

A unique experiment carried out in a Leicester garden, and concurrently in a garden in Italy, has yielded surprising results that has changed scientific knowledge and is published in one of the world's foremost science journals.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Basketball-sized eyes help squids play defense

Giant and colossal squids have eyes as big as basketballs, and a Duke scientist thinks he knows why.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New method for estimating parameters may boost biological models

Modeling biological systems can provide key insights for scientists and medical researchers, but periodic cycles that repeat themselves – so-called oscillatory systems – pose some key challenges. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flying through a geomagnetic storm

Glowing green and red, shimmering hypnotically across the night sky, the aurora borealis is a wonder to behold.  Longtime sky watchers say it is the greatest show on Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oxygen discovered at Saturn's moon Dione

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dione, one of Saturn’s icy moons, has a weak exosphere which includes molecules of oxygen, according to new findings from the Cassini-Huygens mission.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Forage silage alternatives sought in wake of drought

Silage worries have producers asking a lot of questions as spring planting nears, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist.

Biology / Other

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

O, Pioneers! (Part 1): The motes in God's eye

March 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of one of the most extraordinary spacecraft ever constructed - Pioneer 10 - the first true deep space probe. The story of the Voyager spacecraft is well ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Clouds gather over Spain's renewables sector as aid cut

Spain's push to become a world leader in renewable energy risks collapsing after the government slammed the brakes on generous subsidies as part of an austerity drive.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brazil's Petrobras reports another oil spill

Brazil's state-run energy giant Petrobras on Tuesday reported that 160 barrels of crude oil may have spilled from a deep-water well off Sao Paulo state but said the situation was under control.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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